Adams, Austin
lawyer, jurist, was born May 24, 1826, in Andover, Vt. life is interwoven with the educational history of Vermont and Iowa. Eight generations before him his grandfathers without a break have been presidents of educational institutions where they lived.
He graduated from Dartmouth college, and from Harvard Law school. He was a prominent educator; president of the public school board of Dubuque, Iowa; regent of the state university of Iowa; a successful lawyer and law lecturer; and judge of the supreme court of Iowa for twelve years. When chief justice he admitted the first woman to practice before the supreme court; and always insisted that the true wife and mother should enter fully into the intellectual life of her life companion. He was a man of rare literary attainments, and left a volume of poems. He died in October, 1890.