Adams, Isaac – Adams, John Quincy
Adams, Isaac
physician, legislator, was born April 23, 1767, in Andover, Mass.
He was one of the committee on education in the Michigan house of representatives.
He assisted in preparing the bill to establish the university of Michigan, and took an active interest in that institution during his life. He died in 1852, in Troy, Mich.
Adams, Isaac
inventor, state senator, was born 1803 in Rochester, N. H. In 1828 he invented the printing-press that bears his name. It was introduced in 1830, and came into almost universal use, being still so popular as to warrant its manufacture in more than thirty different sizes. He improved it in 1834, making it substantially what it now is. He was a member of the Massachusetts state senate in 1840.
He died July 19, 1883, in Sandwich, N. H.
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
second president of the United States, was born Oct. 30, 1735, in Braintree, Mass. He graduated from Harvard college in 1755; chose law as a profession; and was admitted to the bar in 1761. In 1764 he married Abigail Smith, an accomplished daughter of the Rev, William Smith. In 1770 he was chosen representative from Boston in the Massachusetts assembly, and in 1774 he was elected to the first continental congress.
He was re-elected in 1776, and was one of the committee which drafted the declaration of independence in June of that year. Adams was appointed as commissioner to the court of France in December, 1777, and returned in 1779. After his return he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts convention for framing a constitution, and on the 29th of September, 1779, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to treat with Great Britain for peace and commerce. He was soon after appointed minister to Holland, and recalled in July, 1781, to Paris. In January, 1785, he was appointed minister to England, and occupied that post until 1788, when he resigned and returned home. He was elected first vice-president of the United States, and took the oath of office April 21, 1789, which office he held, by re-election, until March 4, 1797. He was elected president in 1796, and took the oath of office March 4, 1797, at Philadelphia. He was defeated for a re-election, and, at the close of his official term, he retired to his farm at Quincy. John Adams held office over twenty-five years, and died moderately well off, on July 4, 1826, with the same words on his lips which, fifty years before, on that day, he had uttered on the floor of congress: Independence forever! His principal publications were:
Letters on the American Revolution; Defense of the American Constitutions; an Essay on Canon and Feudal Law; a series of letters under the signature of Novanglus; and Discourses on Davila. It was as vice-president that he had a seat in the senate. In 1856 his life and writings were published in ten volumes, edited by his grandson, C. F. Adams.
Adams, John
clergyman, educator, son of a revolutionary officer of the same name, was born Sept. 18, 1772, in Canterbury, Conn. He was graduated at Yale in 1795, and taught for three years at the academy in his native town. In 1800 he became rector of Plainfield, N. J., academy, and in 1803 principal of Bacon academy, Colchester, Conn. In June, 1810, he was chosen principal of Phillips Andover academy, where he remained for twentythree years, and, in addition to his regular duties, took part in the organization of several of the great charitable associations that have attained national importance. He resigned his office in 1833, and went to Illinois, where he estaolished several hundred Sunday-schools. He died April 24, 1863.
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.
Adam, John Jay
soldier, educator, state senator, was born Oct. 30, 1807, in Scotland. In 1826 he emigrated to the United States, and became well known as a successful educator. In 1832 he served in the Black Hawk war; and subsequently took part in the Toledo war as a lieutenant. In 1835 he was a delegate to the Michigan constitutional convention. In 1839 was a representative from Lenawee county to the Michigan legislature, and subsequently served several terms in the state senate. He was also auditor-general of Michigan for several terms.
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.
Adams, John Milton
journalist, was born Sept. 22, 1819, in Rumford, Maine. In 1866 he became sole owner and editor of the Eastern Argus; and has contributed numerous articles to magazines.
Adams, John R
clergyman, was born in 1802, in Plainfield, Conn. He was appointed chaplain of the fifth Maine volun-, teers and was present at nearly all the battles of the army of the Potomac, from the first battle of Bull Run to the close of the civil war. He died April 26, 1866.
Adams, John Quincy
sixth president of the United States, was born July 11, 1767, in Braintree, now Quincy, Mass., and at the age of eleven years he accompanied his father, John Adams, to France. He attended school in Paris, and in 1781 accompanied the American ambassador, Francis Dana, to Russia as his private secretary.
He returned home in 1785, and entered Harvard college, where he graduated in 1788. He then began the study of law with Hon. Theophilus Parsons. In 1794 he was appointed resident minister to the Netherlands, and afterwards to Portugal; but, while on his way to Lisbon, he received a new commission from his father, then president, which changed him to Prussia. In 1797 he was married to Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson. He returned to America in 1801, and in 1802 he was elected to the senate of Massachusetts. In 1803 he was elected to the United States senate, and resigned his seat in 1806. In 1809 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Russia, and in 1814 he was placed at the head of the American commissioners who negotiated the treaty of peace with Great Britain at Ghent. Mr. Adams was appointed minis-. ter to the court of St. James in 1815; was appointed secretary of state in 1817, and held the office eight years. Feb. 9, 1825, he was elected president of the United States by the house of representatives, the electoral college having failed to make a choice, and was inaugurated March 4.
He was defeated for a re-election, and on the 4th of March, 1829, he left the executive chair and retired to private life. In 1830 he was elected to the house of representatives, and held the office by re-elections until his death, Feb. 23, 1848, which occurred in the capitol at Washington in the speaker's room, two days after falling from his chair in the house of representatives. His last words were: This is the end of earth; I am content. His writings, though mainly political in their character, include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory; The Bible and Its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society; Letters on Freemasonry; and Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many state papers. An elaborate history of his life was published in 1875, by his son, Charles Francis Adams.