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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. statistical agent for the United States department of agriculture for New Hampshire and in 1895-97 was sergeant-at-arms of the New Hampshire state senate. In 1889-99 he was editorial writer and editor of the Nashua Daily Telegraph; and in 1903-03 was on

the staff of the Somerville Journal. He is the author of Pioneering in Cuba. Adams, Jasper, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 27, 1793, in Medway, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman, once noted as an educator at West Point; and in 1828-36 was president of the coUege pf Charleston. He was the author of

The Elements

He

other works.

of

Moral Philosophy; and

died Oct. 25, 1841, in Pen-

dleton, S.C.

Adams, Jedidiah Howe, physician, author, was born Aug. 19, 1866, in Union Springs, N.Y. He is an eminent physician of Philadelphia, Pa. and editor of the University Med;

ical

Magazine.

He

is

the author of Life of D.

Hayes Agnew; and other works. Adams, Mrs. Jennie Kelley, educator, founder, was bom 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. In 1886-87 and also in 189293 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. Since 1888 she has been a member of the school board of Woburn, and its vice-chairman in 1890. She is a life trustee of the Burbeen free lecture fund of Woburn, Mass. She was one of the founders of the Warren academy free industrial school of Woburn; and in 1893-95 was first vice-president of Massachusetts state federation of women's clubs. Adams, John, second president of the United States, was born Oct. 30, 1735, in Braintree,

Mass.

He graduated from Harvard lege

in

col-

chose a profession;

1755;

law as and was admitted to the bar in 1761. In 1764 he was married to 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 was re-elected in

continental congress. He 1776; and was one of the committee which drafted the declaration of independence in June of that year. Adams was appointed as commisioner 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 consti-

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tution; and on Sept. 29, 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 niinister to England, and occupied that position 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 reelection, until March 4, 1797. He ed president in 1796, and took the

was

elect-

oath of

of-

1797, at Philadelphia. He was defeated for a re-election, and at the close of his official term he retired to his farm in Quincy. John Adams held office over twentyfive years, and died moderately well off, on July 4, 1836, 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, Jewett W., stoekraiser, governor, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in South Hero, Vt. In fice

March

4,

1852-57 he was engaged in mining and other pursuits in California; and in 1857-60 conducted a general store in Mariposa county. In 1864 he engaged in stock-raising in Neva-

with headquarters in Carson City. In 1874-82 he was lieutenant-governor of Nevada; in 1894-98 he was superintendent of the United States mint at Carson City,_Nevada. Adams, John, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1808, in Durham, N.Y. He practiced law in Catskill, N.Y.; and in 181213 was a representative in the New York state legislature. He received the certificate of election to the fourteenth congress from New York, but was not seated. In 1833-35 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-third congress as a democrat. He died Sept. 28, 1854, in Catskill, N.Y. da,

Adams, John, clergyman, author, poet, was in 1704 in Nova Scotia. He was a clergyman of Newport and Philadelphia, much esteemed in his day as a poet. His poems were subsequently collected and published in a volume entitled Poems on Several Occa-

bom

sions.

He

died Jan. 23, 1740, in Cambridge,

Mass.

Adams, John, clergyman, educator, son of a revolutionary officer of the same name, was born Sept. 18, 1772, in Canterbury, Conn. He graduated from Yale in 1795; and in 180310 was principal of Bacon academy of Colchester, Conn. In 1810-33 he was principal of Phillips Andover academy. In 1833 he went to Illinois, where he established several