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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Adams, Charles Francis, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1807, in Boston, Mass. He spent the most of his boyhood in St. Petersburg and in 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; .and was the candidate for vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Van Buren. In 1859-61 he was a member of the thirty-sixth 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 rights 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; Memoirs of John Q. Adams; and Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs Adams. He died Nov. 21, 1886, in Boston, Mass.

Adams, Charles H., lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1824 in Coxsackie, N.Y. In 1851 he served as aide to the governor of New York. In 1857 he was elected a member of the assembly; was state senator in 1872-79^; and was a member of the republican national c6nvention in 1872. For a long time he was president of the national hank of Cohoes; and was the first mayor of that city. In 1875-77 he was a representative from gress.

Adams, Charles Josiah, clergyman, lecturauthor, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1850, in

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Lisbon, Ohio. He has been canon of St. John's cathedral at Denver, Col.; dean of Wichita, Kan.; rector of St. Luke's church of Chicago, 111.; and since 1896 has been rector of St. Luke's church of Rossville, N.Y. He is the author of Is Man Alone Immortal

The Matterhorn Head and Other Poems and Baldy Won the County Seat. Adams, Charles Kendall, educator, college president, author, was born Jan. 24, 1835, in Derby, Vt. In 1885-92 he was president of

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the Cornell imiversity; and in 1892-1901 was president of the university of Wisconsin.

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founding an historseminary in the university of Michigan in 1869, he became the

Adams, Charles Francis, soldier, railroad was born May 27, 1833? 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

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Adams. Adams, Charles Frederick, educator, entomologist, author, was born April 4, 1877, in Atherton, Mo. In 1897 he graduated from the university of Missouri; and subsequently graduated with the degrees of M.D. and A.M. from the university of Kansas. In 1902-04 he held the Snow research scholarship at the university of Kansas; and made entomological expeditions to the gulf of Mexico and the southwestern United States. In 1897 he was assistant entomologist of Missouri. In 1900-04 he was professor of history and bacteriology in the Kansas City dental college; and in 1904-05 was assistant in zoology at the university of Chicago. Since 1905 he has been professor of entomology in the university of Arkansas. He is an authority on insect taxonomy, insect histology and cytology; was one of the revisors of Williston's Manual of North American Diptera; and is the author of several Mono-

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Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Eailroads; College Fetich; Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana, a biography; and Life of Charles Francis

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the university of Michigan; and was president of the American historical association. He was editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia. His best known works are Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; and Christopher Columbus. He died July 26, 1902, in Redlands, Cal.

Adams, Charles Powell, soldier, was born about 1835 in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was captain in the first regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry; was made major in 1862; and lieutenant-colonel in 1863. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunfor gallant and meritorious services during the civil war. He died Nov. 3, 1893, in Minnesota. Adams, Charles Richards, architect, foundSince er, was born May 25, 1841, in England. 1881 he has been in practice as an architect of Chicago, 111. In 1897 he was one of the founders of the Chicago architects' business association, of which he is secretary. Adams, Charles W., soldier, was born New York. In 1862 he was colonel in the twelfth regiment Kansas infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died in New York.

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