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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Adams, Oscar Fay, author,

poet, was born Worcester, Mass. He is the author of Post-Laureate Idyls and Other Poems; The Story of Jane Austen's Life A Dictionary of American Authors; The Archbishop's Unguarded Moment; and other works. Adams, Otis Hervey, educator, superintendent of schools, was born May 37, 1853, in Pewaukee, Wis. In 1879 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from Williams college of Williamstown, Mass.; in 1883 received the degree of A.M. from that institution; and for two years did post-graduate work at Clark university of Worcester, Mass. He has been principal of high schools at Port Jervis, N.Y., and at Windsor, Conn.; and principal of the grammar school at Stamford, Conn. For the past eight years he has been superintendent of schools at Leicester, Mass. He is a descendant of William Adams, who settled in Ipswich in 1635. Adams, Permenio, army officer, congressman, was bom in Hartford, Conn. He removed to Genessee county, N.Y.; and served in the war against Great Britain as paymaster of Dobbin's New York volunteers. In 183327 he served as a representative from New York to the eighteenth and nineteenth congresses as a republican. He died in Batavia, N.Y. Adams, Robert, geologist, diplomat, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated from the university o f Pennsylvania i n 1869. He studied and in



practiced law for five years; was a member of the United States geological survey in 1871-75; and engaged in explorations of the Yellowstone park. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvaniain 1883-87; and was United States minister to Brazil in 1889-90. In 1893-1906 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a republican. He died May 31, 1906, in Washington, D.C. Adams, Robert ChamWet, author, poet,

was born

in 1839 in Massachusetts,

and

is

the son of Nehemiah Adams. He is the author of History of England in Rhyme; History of the United States in Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to Endeavor; Evolution, a Summary of Evidence; Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason and Pioneer Pith.

Adams, Robert H., lawyer. United States senator, was born in 1793 in Rockbridge, Va. In 1828 he was a member of the Mississippi state legislature. In 1830-31 he was United States senator from Mississippi to fill a vacancy.

He

died July

2,

1830, in Natchez, Miss.

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Adams, Robert Newton, soldier, clergyman, was born Sept. 15, 1835, in Payette county, Ohio. He served through the civil war in the eighty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He has ably filled a pastorate in the

presbyterian church at Minneapolis, Minn.; and is now field secretary of the home mission board of the presbyterian church in the United States of America.

Adams, Samuel, governor, statesman. He was acting governor of Arkansas in 1844. Adams, Samuel, army surgeon, was bom in Maine.

Dr.

during the

civil

Adams

distinguished himself riding along the advanced line of combatants, and under the fire of the enemy, dressing the wounds of General Potter, who could not be removed from the spot where he fell; and who but for the action of Surgeon Adams, would have lost his life. He died on Sept. 9, 1867, in Galveston, Texas.

war by

Adams, Samuel, signer declaration of independence, governor, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 1722, in Boston, Mass., and was a cousin of President John Adams. He was one of the first who organized measures of resistance to the mother country; and drew up the instructions of the town of Boston against taxation in 1764. He was elected a representative in 1765; was chosen clerk and served in that body for ten years; and, it is said, he suggested the congress that assembled at New York in 1765, and the non-importation agreement of 1769. He addressed a public meeting the day after the Boston massacre; and was chairman of the committee to demand the removal of the troops. In 1773 he organized the committee of correspondence, which was first adopted by Massachusetts and followed by all the provinces; was a signer of the declaration of independence; was one of those who matured the plan of the continental congress; and was delegate from Massachusetts in 1774-82. He signed the articles of confederation; was a member of the state convention which adopted the federal constitution, and made some amendments to that instrument. On the adoption of the state constitution, he was made president of the senate; was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1784-94; and served as governor in 1794-97. So ardent was his patriotism, that he was one of the three leaders to be exempt from the pardon offered in 1775. As a statesman and orator he fills a large place in the annals of the American revolution. He died Oct. 2, 1803, in Bos-

who were

ton, Mass.

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