REEVES, JESSE SIDDALL: 1872-
Jesse Siddall Reeves was born in Richmond, Ind., on July 27, 1872. He attended Kenyon College but transferred to Amherst and received the B.S. degree there in 1891. He received the Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1894 and was awarded the L.H.D. degree by Amherst in 1926.
He was instructor in American history at the Woman's College of Baltimore in 1893-1894, a lecturer on diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University from 1904 to 1906. In 1897 he returned to Richmond, Ind., was admitted to the Wayne County bar and practiced law there from 1897 to 1907. In the latter year he gave up the practice of law and became assistant professor of political science at Dartmouth College, remaining there until 1910, when he became professor of political science at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Reeves served as associate editor of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW and lectured in America and abroad.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Richmond Public Library.
- The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State.
Baltimore, 1894.
- The Napoleonic Exiles in America, 1815-1819.
Baltimore, 1905.
- Jeremy Bentham and American Jurisprudence, n.p.,
1906.
- American Diplomacy under Tyler and Polk.
Baltimore, 1907.
- La Communauté Internatlonale.
Paris, 1925.
