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Adams, Mrs. Mary Mathews

educator, poet, was born Oct. 23, 1840, in Ireland; and is the wife of Charles Kendall Adams, president of the university of Wisconsin. She came to America in her childhood, and was mainly educated at the Packer institute of Brooklyn, N. Y.

For ten years she was engaged in educational work, and subsequently acquired success in literary pursuits. Her verse is largely lyrical, and her themes include romance, heroism, and religion.

She is the author of a brochure of poems entitled The Choir Visible; and among her other works The Epithalamium is perhaps the best known.