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Adams, Charles Francis (JR soldier railroad president)

JR., soldier, railroad president, author, was born May 27, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was an officer in the union army during the civil war, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. He is the author of Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [infra], a Biography; and Life of Charles Francis Adams.