Adams, Daniel – Adams, Herbert Baxter
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.
Adams, Edward Dean
banker, scientist, was born April 9, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He received his education at the Chauncey Hall school of his native city, and at the Norwich university of Vermont. He has been president, director and trustee of many railroads, scientific and art organizations; was managing partner of the New York banking house of Winslow, Lanier and Co.; president of companies developing Niagara Falls power; chairman of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific Railway company, and chairman of the board of directors of the American Cotton Oil company. He was the author and executor of plans for the reorganization of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the West Shore Railroad company, the Northern Pacific Railroad company, the American Cotton Oil Trust, and numerous other companies.
Adams, Edwin
comedian, was born Feb. 3, 1834, in Medford, Mass. He has attained success in all the large cities of the United States as an accomplished light comedian. He died Oct. 28, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Adams, Elmer B
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 27, 1842, in Pomfret, Vt. He was educated at Yale college and Harvard law school; in 1868 removed to Missouri, being engaged in general practice of law except from 1879-85, during which time he was one of the circuit judges of St.
Louis. In 1895 he was appointed judge of the United States district court of Missouri, eastern district.
Adams, Ezra Eastman
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 29, 1813, in Concord, N. H. He was made professor of theology in Lincoln university, Pa.; and in 1870 became editorially connected with the Presbyterian of Philadelphia. He died Nov. 3, 1871, in Oxford, Pa.
Adams, F. W
physician, musician, was born in 1787. He was a good performer on the violin, and early turned his attention to violin-making. He died in 1859, in Montpelier, Vt.
Adams, Florence Adelaide Fowle
dramatic reader, teacher, author, was born Oct. 15, 1863, in Chelsea, Mass.
In 1884 she graduated from the Boston School of Oratory; and in 1888 was married to George Adams, a direct descendant of the statesmen and presidents of that name. She is the author of Gestures and Pantomimic Action; and still pursues her chosen line of work.
Adams, Francis
farmer, merchant, state senator, was born in April, 1862. He was elected a member of the Florida state senate from Hamilton in 1894; and in his town and county has filled numerous offices of honor.
Adams, Francis Alexandre
journalist, orator, was born May 11, 1874, in New York city. In 1890 he edited and published the Gotham Monthly, which was the pioneer genealogical periodical in America, and which in 1891, under the title of Adams' Magazine, became the official exponent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He has gained prominence as an orator, and in 1896 was appointed a campaign speaker by the New York democratic party.
Adams, Francis Colburn
author, was born in 1850. He was a writer of Charleston, S. C., and wrote under various pseudonyms. He was the author of Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats' Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; and The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.
Adams, Franklin George
author, was born May 13, 1824, in Rodman, N. Y.
In 1876, at the beginning of the work of the Kansas State Historical society, he was appointed secretary, a position which he still holds. He has been editor of several newspapers; and is the author of a volume entitled Homestead Guide.
Adams, George
jurist, was a citizen of Mississippi. He was appointed United States judge for the district embracing that state, and resided at Natchez.
Adams, George
soldier, merchant, banker, was born Sept. 13, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He received his education in the Baltimore schools and at the Newton university. In 1852 he moved to Wheeling, W. Va., where he subsequently engaged in the grocery and commission business. In 1864 he organized the First National bank of Wheeling; and for many years was president of one of the largest banking institutions of that city. During the civil war he served as captain and subsequently as colonel of the fifth regiment of West Virginia militia, an organization that gave good service in defense of the union. He has been president of the Wheeling Library association; president of the Buckeye Glass company; and of various other institutions.
Adams, George Burton
educator, author, was born in 1651 in Vermont. He is an historical writer; professor of history at Yale university; and the author of Civilization During the Middle Ages; and The Growth of the French Nation.
Adams, George Enoch
soldier, journalist, poet, was born in Bow, N. H.
In 1849 he graduated from Yale college, and then taught school in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maryland and Missouri. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, second regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry; he was afterward wounded at the battle of Williamsburg, the bullet still remaining in his body.
He was in the peach orchard at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1865 he commanded at Fort Rice, D. T., where he met and vanquished the famous Sitting Bull and ten thousand warriors. He was mustered out of service as captain and brevet major.
For a number of years he was editor and owner of the Vancouver Register, W. T., where he was also register of the land office. He next published the Columbian of St. Helena, Ore., where he was also justice of the peace, and filled various other public positions of trust. Major Adams is a brilliant lecturer, and a poet of excellence.
Adams, George Everett
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 18, 1840, in Keene, N. H. He removed to Chicago in 1853; graduated from Harvard university in 1860; studied law at Dane law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1865, and engaged in practice at Chicago. In 1880 he was elected a state senator for a term of five years; was elected a representative from Illinois to the Forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fiftyfirst congresses. ADAMS, GEORGE M. soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1837, in Knox county, Ky. He was educated at Centre college; studied law; was clerk of the circuit court of Knox county from 1859 to 1861; subsequently served for a few months as a captain in the union army; and was an additional paymaster of volunteers from 1861 to 1865. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the Fortieth congress, and re-elected to the three succeeding congresses. In 1875 he was elected clerk of the house of representatives of the Forty-fourth congress.
Adams, Green
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 20, 1812, in Barboursville, Ky. He was bred a farmer; read law and adopted that profession. In 1832-33 he was deputy sheriff of Knox county; in 1839 was elected to the state legislature, and was re-elected; was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1847-49; was a presidential elector in 1844 and 1856, and a judge of the circuit court of Kentucky from 1851-56. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the Thirtysixth congress; in 1861 was appointed sixth auditor of the United States treasury; and was disbursing clerk in the house of representatives at Washington from 1875 to 1881. He died Jan. 18, 1884.
Adams, Hannah
the first woman in the United States to make a profession of literature, was born in 1755 in Medfield, Mass. After the civil war she opened a school to prepare young men for college.
Her principal work appeared in 1784, entitled A View of Religious Opinions; and a fourth edition of that work was entitled A Dictionary of Religions. She was also the author of A History of New England; Evidences of Christianity; History of the Jews; and Letters on the Gospel.
She died Nov. 15, 1832, in Brookline, Mass.
Adams, Henry
author, was born Feb. 16, 1838, in Boston, Mass. He is an historian and political biographer, living in Washington; and the author of Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; and other works.
Adams, Henry Carter
author, was born in 1852 in Iowa. He is a political economist of note; and the author of Public Debts, an Essay in the Science of Finance; and Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816.
Adams, Henry H
merchant, was born July 9, 1844, in Collamer, Ohio. In 1882 he became associated with the Colerain Company of Reading, Pa.; and three years later settled in New York city, engaging there in the iron business. In 1890 he was elected president of the Columbus and Hocking Iron and Coal Company; and in 1891 became president of the Henry H. Adams Company of New York city.
Adams, Herbert Baxter
educator, author, was born April 16, 1850, in Amherst, Mass. He is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins university, and the secretary of the American Historical association from its beginning. He is the author of The Germanic Origin of New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; and History of the United States Constitution. He has edited the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks.