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Adams, Albert Brinsmade – Adams, Charles Follen

Adams, Albert Brinsmade

educator, clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1856, in Kalamazoo county, Mich. He graduated from the Vicksburg high school, Michigan; and for eight years taught school in Mills county, Iowa. He now fills a pastorate in Little Sioux, Iowa, and has attained success as a clergyman and evangelist. He is the author of several meritorious poems, the most notable of which is The Honored Brave.

Adams, Allen Willson

merchant, was born June 25, 1848, in Hampton, N.

Y. He is a merchant of New York city, and for several years past has done a large and successful business.

Adams, Alva

merchant, legislator, governor of Colorado, was born May 14, 1850, in Iowa county, Wis. In 1876 he served with distinction as a member of the first Colorado state legislature; was elected governor of that state and served during 1887-89; and was again elected to that high office for the term of 1897-99.

He has also attained success as a hardware merchant of Pueblo.

Adams, Benjamin

legislator, congressman, was born in 1765 in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the legislature; as representative from 1809-14; and as senator in 1814-15, and 1822-25. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1816-21. He died March 28, 1837, in Uxbridge, Mass.

Adams, Blanche Hermine

educator, poet, and daughter of Major Enoch George Adams, was born Oct. 22, 1871, in Vancouver, Wash. In 1885 she moved to South Berwick, Maine, and in 1890 graduated from the Berwick academy.

She has become a successful teacher, and holds high rank as an elocutionist. She is the author of several prize stories, and her poems have appeared in several standard works.

Adams, Brooks

lawyer, author, was born June 24, 1848, in Quincy, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1870, and is a successful lawyer of Boston. He is the author of The Gold Standard; The Emancipation of Massachusetts, a careful study of the evolution of religious freedom; and The Law of Civilization and Decay, an Essay in History.

Adams, Charles

lawyer, author, was born March 12, 1785, in Arlington, Vt. He became a prominent lawyer, and was a constant contributor to newspapers on political questions. He was the friend and adviser of General Wool during the Canadian difficulties of 1838, and wrote a history of the events connected with that rebellion. He died reb. 13, 1861, in Burlington, Vt.

Adams, Charles

clergyman, author, was born in 1808, in New Hampshire. He was a methodist clergyman who wrote extensively, and among whose works are Evangelism in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; Women of the Bible; The Poet Preacher, a Memorial of Charles Wesley; The Earth and Its Wonders; Life of Cromwell; and Life Sketches of Macaulay. He died in 1890.

Adams, Charles Baker

naturalist, author, was born Jan. 11, 1814, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a naturalist, and published Contributions to Conchology; and Monographs of Several Species of Shells. He died Jan. 19, 1853, in St.

Thomas, W. I.

Adams, Charles Coffin

clergyman, author, was born in 1826. He was an episcopal clergyman; and the author of Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of Christ; Anthroposophy; and The Bible, a Scientific Revelation. He died in 1888.

Adams, Charles Follen

soldier, poet, was born April 21, 1842, in Dorchester, Mass. He is principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect Ballads; and other works. He served gallantly as a soldier during the civil war in the thirteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He has delivered many of his original productions before Boston audiences, in which city he is a successful merchant.