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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. of the Adams express company, and became president of the organization. He died Sept. 2, 1877, in Watertown, Mass. Adams, Amos; clergyman, author, was

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born Sept. 1, 1728, in Medfield, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1752; and in 1752-75 was pastor of a church in Roxbury. 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 in 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, Amos Crandall, lawyer, jurist, was born March 3, 1824, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1836 he moved to Downer's Grove, 111.; studied law in Chicago; and in 1848 was admitted to the bar of Illinois. In 1854-69 he practiced law in Calaveras county, C'al.; and 1869-75 was judge of the eleventh district court of California. From 1875 he practiced San Francisco, Cal. Adams, Andrew, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1736, in Stratford, Conn. He graduated from Yale college in 1760; and from 1764 practiced law in Litchfield, Conn. In 1777-82 he was a, delegate from Connecticut to the continental cong-' ress; 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 became chief justice. law

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Adams, Arthur Lincoln, civil engineer, auwas born Sept. 15, 1864, near Greens-

thor,

burg, Ind. In 1886 he graduated with the degree of B.S. from Kansas state university. In 1886-90 he was engaged on railroad construction in Nebraska, Oregon and Washington; and in 1890-96 was engaged in the design and construction of various waterworks for municipalities, irrigation and other hydraulic projects in the western states. Since 1896 he has been a consulting hydraulic engineer of Oakland, Cal. In 1897 he was awarded the Thomas Fitch Rowland prize of the American society of civil engineers. He is president of the San Francisco association of members of the American society of civil engineers. He is the author of numerous professional Monographs and scientific articles that have been published in technical j.ournals; and also delivered before various societies and scientific associations in the United States.

Adams, Austin, lawyer, educator, jurist, was boj-n May 24, 1826, in Andover, Vt. His life is interwoven with the town school board and educpoet,

ational history of Ver-

mont and Iowa. Eight full generations before him, his grandfathers without a break have been presidents of ed-

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died Nov. 26, 1797, in Litchfield, Conn.

Adams, Andrew Lemuel, educator, college president, founder, poet, was born Sept. 30, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated from Trinity college. In 1863 he founded the Philadelphia military college, of which he became president. In 1868 he moved to New York, and devoted his time to literature as a newspaper writer and poet. He died Nov. 10, 1895, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Adams, Andrew Nax^oleon, state senator, genealogist, author, was born Jan. 6, 1830, in Fair Haven, Vt. In 1884-85 he wasa representative in the Vermont state legislature; and a member of the state senate in 1888-89. He was the author of The History of Fair Haven; and Genealogy of Henry Adams of Newbury. He died in 1905 in Fair Haven, Vt. Adams, Andy, miner, author, was bom May 8, 1859, in Whitley county, Ind. For ten years he was a cowboy in Texas; during the Cripple Creek excitement took up mining in Colorado; and now devotes his time to literature. He is the author of The Log of a Cowboy; and The Outlet.

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Texas Matchmaker;

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ucational

institutions

where they lived. He graduated from Dart-

mouth

college,

and

from the Harvard law school.

He was

a pro-

minent educator; president of the public school board of Dubuque, Iowa; regent of the state university of Iowa and a successful lawyer and law lecturer. In 1875-81 he was associate justice of the supreme court of Iowa; and chief justice in 1881-87. When chief justice he admitted

the

first

woman

to practice before the sup-

reme court; and always insisted that the true wife and mother should enter fully into the intellectual life of her life companion. a man of rare literary attainments, and left a volume of poems. He died Oct. 17, 1890, in Dubuque, Iowa. Adams, Benjamin, lawyer, congressman, was bom about 1765 in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the legislature in 1809-14; and state senator in 1814-15 and 1822-25. In 1815-21 he was a member of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth congresses from Massachusetts. He died March 28, 1837, in Ux-

He was

bridge, Mass.

Adams, Bristow, editor, illustrator, artist, was bom Nov. 11, 1875, in Washington, D.O.

He

illustrated four volumes of government fur seal reports from life sketches. In 1903 he was one of the founders of Washington Life, of which he is managing editor. He is illustrator for Country Life in America and other magazines.