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Herbert Baird Stimpson

b. 1869

Best known for a historical novel set on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during the American Revolution, this late-19th-century American writer blended adventure, romance, and regional history in an easy, engaging style.

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The Tory Maid

The Tory Maid

by Herbert Baird Stimpson

About the author

Herbert Baird Stimpson was an American author born in 1869. The clearest confirmed detail available from major library and public-domain book records is his authorship of The Tory Maid, a historical novel first published in the late 1890s.

The Tory Maid is set during the Revolutionary War and follows James Frisby of Kent County, Maryland, placing local loyalties, family conflict, and romance against a wartime backdrop. The surviving records tied to the book suggest Stimpson had a strong interest in Maryland settings and American historical fiction.

Reliable biographical information about his wider life appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him today as a little-known 19th-century novelist whose work preserved a vivid fictional picture of Revolutionary-era Maryland.