The Biographical Dictionary of America/Black, James William

​BLACK, James William, educator, was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 31, 1866. He received his early education in the public schools of Baltimore, and was graduated at the City college in 1885, with a first-grade Peabody prize, and at the Johns Hopkins university in 1888, where he received the degree of A.B. and a university scholarship. He then pursued postgraduate studies in history, economics and historical jurisprudence at the Johns Hopkins university, and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1891. In the summer of that year he was appointed professor of history and economics in Georgetown, Ky., but he resigned in 1892, when he was made associate professor of political economy in Oberlin college. In 1894 he accepted the chair of history and political economy in Colby university. He published "Maryland's Attitude in the Struggle for Canada," was made a member of the American historical association, of the Maryland historical society, of the council of the American economic association, and of the Maine historical society and a member of the "Commission of Colleges in New England on examinations for admission to college."