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Adams, Daniel

physician, state senator, author, was born Sept. 29, 1773, in Townsend, Mass. He taught a select school in Boston in 1806-13; practiced medicine in Lancaster, Boston, and Keene, N. H.; was state senator in New Hampshire in 1838-40; and was president of the New Hampshire Medical and Bible societies. Besides an arithmetic, which was extensively used, and other school books, he published an oration at Leominster on the death of Washington; edited the Telescope of Mt. Vernon, and the Medical and Agricultural Register of Boston. He died June 8, 1864, in Keene, N. H.

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