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Adams, James Hopkins

state senator, governor of South Carolina, was born about 1811 in South Carolina. He graduated from Yale college in 1831; was a member of the legislature and senate of South Carolina, and was governor of that state from 1855 to 1857. After the secession of South Carolina from the union he was one of the commissioners appointed to confer with the president concerning United States property in South Carolina.

He died July 27, 1861, near Columbia, S. C.

Adams, James W

journalist, state senator, was born Jan. 16, 1865, in Hawesville, Ky. He is the editor of the Daily Graphic, and served as state senator in the Kentucky legislature in 1893. One of the principal events of his public life is his world's fair speech in the Kentucky state senate in 1893.

Adams, Jane Kelley

educator, was born Oct. 30, 1852, in Woburn, Mass. In 1875 she graduated from Vassar college, and has since been interested in educational work. In 1881 she became the wife of Charles Day Adams, a noted lawyer of Boston, Mass. During 1886-87 she was president of the Woburn Woman's club, and was one of the founders of the Woburn Home for Aged Women, of which she has been vice-president.

Adams, Jasper

educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 27, 1793, in Medway, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman, once noted as an educator at West Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, and published The Elements of Moral Philosophy, and other works. He died Oct. 25, 1841, in Charleston, S. C.

Adams, Jewett W

governor. He was elected governor of Nevada for the term of four years from January, 1883.

Adams, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Greene county, N. Y., from 1833 to 1835. He died Sept. 28, 1854, in Catskill, N. Y.

Adams, John

sailor, was born Nov. 29, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was the last survivor of all who witnessed the victory gained by Hull in the Constitution over Dacres in the Guerriere, in 1812. He was subsequently captured and confined in Dartmoor prison till the end of the war.

For nearly half a century afterward he followed the sea, commanding some of the finest merchantmen that sailed from Boston. He died March 17, 1886, in Allston, Mass.

Adams, John

soldier, was born in 1825 in Tennessee. His first service was in the Mexican war, where he was brevetted first lieutenant, for gallantry at Vera Cruz de Rosales, March 16, 1848.

At the outbreaking of the civil war he became a major-general in the Confederate army. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tenn.

Adams, John Coleman

clergyman, author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He was a universalist clergyman and editor of The United States During 1801-17; Historical Essays; and Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law.

Adams, John Greenleaf

clergyman, author, was born July 30, 1810, in Portsmouth, N. H. In addition to his constant work as a universalist clergyman he published fifteen volumes, besides pamphlets and tracts; and edited Sunday school periodicals for twenty-two years.

His principal works are: The Universalist Church, Its Faith and Its Works; Universalism of the Lord's Prayer; Talks About the Bible to Young Folks; and Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the Ministry of Universalism. He died in 1887.

Adams, John J

lawyer legislator, was born Sept. 16, 1848, in Canada. He attended the ordinary country schools; entered Columbia law college and graduated in the class of 1876; was admitted to the bar in that year and commenced practice in New York city. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress.