Adams Sherman Hill was an American educator born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1833. He graduated from Harvard College in 1853 and Harvard Law School in 1855 LL. D. 1903.
Hill was a law reporter, correspondent, and editor in New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago from 1856-1868. Hill continued his career as an assistant professor of rhetoric, 1872–1876, Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, 1876–1904, and an emeritus professor same, 1904-1910. Hill also authored the books Principles of Rhetoric, Our English, Foundations of Rhetoric, and Beginnings or Rhetoric and Composition. Hill died in 1910.