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ton, Mass. During the civil war he was colonel of the sixty-seventh New York volunteers. From the civil war he was chief engineer of the city of Brooklyn; and projector of the East River suspension bridge. He was the author of Sewers and Drains for Populous Districts. He died in 1899 in Brooklyn.

Adams, Julius W.,

soldier,

was born

in

In 1861 he graduated from West Point; served there as assistant instructor of infantry tactics till 1863; was wounded and taken prisoner at Gaines' Mills; was promoted captain; and served at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where he commanded a regiment. At the second battle of Cold Harbor he received wounds that caused his death. He died Nov. 15, 1865, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dalzell, Ohio. He was educated at the Ohio northern university; attended Zanetian college; and graduated from the Marietta commercial college. For a number of years he was engaged as a stenographer and bookkeeper; and is now president of the Marietta commercial college of Ohio. Adams, Mrs. Mary Mathews, educator, poet, was born Oct. 33, 1840, in Ireland; and wa^ the wife of the late Charles Kendall Adams, president of the university of WisApril, 1840, in Westfield, Mass.

consin. She came to America in her childhood;, and was mainly educated at the Packer

institute of Brooklyn, N.Y. For ten years she was engaged in educational work; and subsequently acquired success in literary pursuits. She was the author of a brochure of poems entitled TEe Choir Visible; and among her other works The Epithalamium is perhaps the best known. She died Dec. 30, 1902, in Madison, Wis. Adams, Mrs. Mary Newbury, suffragist, the wife of the late Judge Austin Adams of Dubuque, Iowa, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Peru, Ind. In 1868 she was urged to speak before a class of girls graduating from the Lombard university of Galesburg, 111.; and since that time her life has been devoted to the advancement of

women. She has been vice-president of the Iowa suffrage association; trustee of the

Humboldt college, Iowa; vice-president of the association for advancement of women for nearly a quarter of a century; and has lectured extensively before women graduates and the public generally in all parts of the

United States.

Adams, Maude,

actress,

was born Nov.

11,

1873, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has attained success in Little Minister. Her real

name

is

Kiskadden.

Adams, Maxwell, educator, chemist, author, was bom Feb. 28, 1869, in St. George, W.Va. He graduated with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from the Stanford university of California; and in 1895-97 was an instructor of chemistry in that institution. In 1891-1900 he was head of the department of physical science in the California state normal school at Chico; and in 1901-06 was professor of chemistry and acting vice-president of that institution. Since 1906 he has been professor of chemistry in the university of Nevada. He is the author of Products of Steam and Destructive Distillation of California Pines.

Adams, Milward, theatrical manager, was born Jan. 6, 1857, in Lexington, Ky. In ],881 Mr. Adams assumed the sole management of Central music hall; and in 1887 he gave this up for the management of the Chicago auditorium.

Adams, Morgan, musician, dentist, physicwas born Nov. 11, 1834, in Fayette, Tenn. He graduated from Vanderbilt university from the Missouri dental college and has received the degrees of M.D. and D.D.S. He was given a musical education, ian, author,



with a view to teaching. He played first violin in orchestra; and was bandmaster during the civil war in the confederate service. He has traveled extensively in Europe; and in 1881 attended the international medical congress held in London. He has attained success in his profession at Sardis, Miss.; has been president of the board of health of that city; and president of the Mississippi state dental association. He is the author of a number of essays; and has contributed extensively to medical and current literature.

Adams, Myron, clergyman, author, was in 1841 in New York. In 1876-95 he was

bom

a congregational clergyman of Rochester, N. Y. He was the author of The Creation of the Bible; and The Continuous Creation, an Application of the Evolutionary Philosophy to the Christian Religion. He died in 1885 in Rochester, N.Y.

Adams, Nehemiah, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1806, in Salem, Mass. He was a noted congregational clergyman of Boston, whose most famous work, A South Side View of Slavery, provoked much hostile criticism.

Among other works by him are Walks to Emmaus; Scriptural Argument for Endless

Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and the Little Key; and Evenings with the Doctrines. He died Oct. 6, 1878, in Boston, Mass.

Adams,

NelUe E., educator, poet, was born July 12, 1864, in Exeter, N.H. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Blossoms