Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Adams, Samuel Hopkins

ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS, an American writer; born in Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1871. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1891 and at once began newspaper work in New York. From 1903 to 1905 he was a member of the editorial staff of &ldquo;McClure's Magazine.&rdquo; He wrote &ldquo;The Great American Fraud,&rdquo; an exposé of the patent medicine business (1906); &ldquo;The Clarion&rdquo; (1914); &ldquo;Our Square and the People in It&rdquo; (1917), and contributed many stories and articles to newspapers and magazines.