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 6 ADAMS. ADAMS. at present one of the board of selectmen of Attleborough, and chairman of the board of health. He is also chairman of the prudential committee of the fire district. In 1S72 he cast his first vote for U. S. Grant, and has ever since been identified with the Republican party. ADAMS, George Zaccheus, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born at Chelmsford, Middlesex county, April 23, 1833. Previous to the age of fourteen he was educated in the public schools of his native town, when he went for one year to the academy at Westford. At the age of six- teen he went to Phillips Academy, An- dover, where he remained three years, and at which institution he was prepared for college. Graduating from Phillips Acad- emy in 1852, he entered Harvard, where he graduated in 1856, and then came to Boston and entered the office of Mr. Oliver Stevens, the present district attorney. After remaining there one year he entered the Harvard law school, where he re- mained one year, and then returned to Mr. Stevens's office for three years, and then opened an office of his own in Boston, where he has practiced ever since. He was married September 16, 1861, to Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan F. ( Hagar) Davenport. They have three children : Georgie P., Walter D. and Charles Z. Adam-.. In July, 1882. Mr. Adams was appointed by Governor Long special justice of the municipal court of the city of Boston, and has since been tendered a permanent seat upon the bench of said court, which he declined. Mr. Adams has refused all offices of a political nature, preferring to devote the whole of his tune and energy to his pro- fession. ADAMS, John Gregory Bishop, son of Isaac and Margaret Adams, was born in Groveland, Essex county, Octo- ber 6, [841. He obtained a common school educa- tion, and spent the greater part of his boy- hood and youth in that locality. In the early summer of 1861 he enlisted in Major Ben: l'erley Poore's rifle battalion, which later became the nucleus of the 19th Massachusetts regiment. He served through the war, rising to the rank of captain. He participated in every march, and was engaged in every battle of the army of the Potomac in which his regiment took part. At Fredericksburg he saved the colors of his regiment from capture, after eight color bearers had been killed. He was twice severely wounded in the second day's fight at Gettysburg, and while in the advanced lines before Petersburg, on the 22d of June, 1864, he was captured with his regiment, and for nine months suffered the miseries of a southern prison pen. After the war he was for some years foreman in the factory of B. F. Doak & Co., but on account of failing health re- signed that position to enter the inspec- tor's office in the Boston Custom House. He remained there fifteen months, when JOHN G B ADAMS. he was appointed postmaster at Lynn, which office he held eight years. On the establishment of the reformatory prison at Concord, he was appointed deputy superintendent, and in 1885 was made sergeant-at-arms for the Commonwealth, which important position he now holds. Captain Adams was the first recruit mustered into Post 5, G. A. R. He was three times chosen commander, and was one year department commander of Mas- sachusetts. He has been for eleven years president of the Association of Survivors of Rebel Prisons, and is president of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home. He has been connected with numerous