Adams, Alva – Adams, Charles Kendall
Adams, Alva
merchant, legislator, governor of Colorado, was born May 14, 1850, in Iowa county, Wis. In 1876 he served with distinction as a member of the first Colorado state legislature; was elected governor of that state and served during 1887-89; and was again elected to that high office for the term of 1897-99.
He has also attained success as a hardware merchant of Pueblo.
Adams, Alvin
founder of the Adams Express company, was born June 16, 1804. In 1840 Alvin Adams engaged in the then novel specialty of forwarding parcels, money, and valuable merchandise between Boston and New York by way of Worcester, Norwich and New London, beginning in a little store in Boston.
Later he formed the partnership of Adams and Co., with Ephraim Farnsworth, the latter taking charge of the New York office, and being succeeded at his death soon afterwards by William B. Dinsmore.
In 1854 Mr. Adams effected a union of four concerns under the name of The Adams Express Co., and became president of the organization. He died Sept. 2, 1877, in Watertown, Mass.
Adams, Amos
clergyman, was born Sept. 1, 1728, in Medfield, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1752, and in September of the following year became pastor of a church in Roxbury, which he served until his death. He was secretary of the convention of ministers at Watertown, which in 1775 recommended the people to take up arms. Many of his sermons were published from 1756 to 1769, as well as two discourses on Religious Liberty. The most notable of his writings were two discourses on the general fast, 6 April, 1769, in which he gave A Concise Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils which Attended the Planting and Progressive Improvement in New England, with a Particular Account of Its Long and Destructive Wars. He died Oct. 5, 1775, in Dorchester, Mass.
Adams, Andrew
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in January, 1736, in Stratford, Conn. He graduated from Yale college in 1760; adopted the profession of the law, and settled in the practice in Litchfield in 1764. From 1777 to 1782 he was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress, and was one of the signers of the articles of confederation.
In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Connecticut, and in 1793 chief justice of said court. He died Nov. 26, 1797, in Litchfield, Conn.
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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.
Adams, Benjamin
legislator, congressman, was born in 1765 in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the legislature; as representative from 1809-14; and as senator in 1814-15, and 1822-25. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1816-21. He died March 28, 1837, in Uxbridge, Mass.
Adams, Blanche Hermine
educator, poet, and daughter of Major Enoch George Adams, was born Oct. 22, 1871, in Vancouver, Wash. In 1885 she moved to South Berwick, Maine, and in 1890 graduated from the Berwick academy.
She has become a successful teacher, and holds high rank as an elocutionist. She is the author of several prize stories, and her poems have appeared in several standard works.
Adams, Brooks
lawyer, author, was born June 24, 1848, in Quincy, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1870, and is a successful lawyer of Boston. He is the author of The Gold Standard; The Emancipation of Massachusetts, a careful study of the evolution of religious freedom; and The Law of Civilization and Decay, an Essay in History.
Adams, Charles
lawyer, author, was born March 12, 1785, in Arlington, Vt. He became a prominent lawyer, and was a constant contributor to newspapers on political questions. He was the friend and adviser of General Wool during the Canadian difficulties of 1838, and wrote a history of the events connected with that rebellion. He died reb. 13, 1861, in Burlington, Vt.
Adams, Charles
clergyman, author, was born in 1808, in New Hampshire. He was a methodist clergyman who wrote extensively, and among whose works are Evangelism in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; Women of the Bible; The Poet Preacher, a Memorial of Charles Wesley; The Earth and Its Wonders; Life of Cromwell; and Life Sketches of Macaulay. He died in 1890.
Adams, Charles Baker
naturalist, author, was born Jan. 11, 1814, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a naturalist, and published Contributions to Conchology; and Monographs of Several Species of Shells. He died Jan. 19, 1853, in St.
Thomas, W. I.
Adams, Charles Coffin
clergyman, author, was born in 1826. He was an episcopal clergyman; and the author of Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of Christ; Anthroposophy; and The Bible, a Scientific Revelation. He died in 1888.
Adams, Charles Follen
soldier, poet, was born April 21, 1842, in Dorchester, Mass. He is principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Strauss; Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect Ballads; and other works. He served gallantly as a soldier during the civil war in the thirteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He has delivered many of his original productions before Boston audiences, in which city he is a successful merchant.
Adams, Charles Francis
lawyer, legislator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1807, in Boston, Mass. He spent the most of his boyhood in St. Petersburg and London, whilst his father, John Quincy Adams, was minister to Russia and England. He graduated from Harvard university in 1825; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He served three years in the lower house, and two years in the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Buffalo convention, and elected president; was the candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Van Buren; was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-sixth congress, and received the re-election to the thirty-seventh congress. One of the most noted events of his life was his appointment as minister to England during the civil war in America, and though encountering the most bitter social hostility in England, he maintained the right of his country, and exercised the grandest qualities of true statesmanship just where and when they were of priceless value. He edited The Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life and Works of John Q. Adams; and Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. died Nov. 21, 1886, in Boston, Mass.
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Adams, Charles Francis
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.
Adams, Charles H
lawyer, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1824, in Coxsackie, N. Y. He studied law and practiced until 1850, when he engaged in manufacturing at Cohoes, N.
Y.; and served as trustee and president of the water board in that place before it was made a city. In 1851 he served as aid to the governor. In 1857 he was elected a member of the assembly; was state senator in 1872 and 1873; and was a member of the republican national convention in 1872. For a long time he was president of the National Bank of Cohoes, and was the first mayor of the city. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress.
Adams, Charles Kendall
educator, college president, author, was born Jan. 24, 1835, in Derby, Vt. He received his education in the university of Michigan, college de France, and the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, Bonn, Munich, Rome and Paris.
During 1862-67 he was assistant professor of history and latin in the university of Michigan; and during 1867-85 filled the chair of history in the same institution. During 1885-92 he was president of Cornell university; and since the latter year has been president of the university of Wisconsin. By founding an historical seminary in the university of Michigan in 1869, he became the first introducer of the German seminary method of teaching in the United States. He was at one time dean of political science in the university of Michigan; and has been president of the American Historical association. His best known works are Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; and Christopher Columbus.
He was also the editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia.