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ADAMS.ADAMS. history and Latin. In 1863 he became assistant professor of history and Latin, a position which he held till 1867, when, on the resignation of Andrew D. White, he was appointed to the chair of history. This appointment he accepted on the condition of a year's leave of absence for study in Europe. The year was spent in Germany at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Leipsic, Berlin, and Munich, where his object was to observe the methods of advanced instruction. About four months were passed in Italy and France, chiefly in Rome and Paris. In 1881 he was simultaneously invited to the presidency of the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska, both of which positions were declined. He accepted the non-resident professorship of history in Cornell university in 1881, where annually he gave a course of fifteen lectures till 1885, when he succeeded Andrew D. White in the presidency. In 1869 he founded the historical seminary of the university of Michigan, and introduced the seminary method of instruction in that institution. When the school of political science was established in the university he was made dean. He resigned his professorship in May, 1892, and in July of the same year was elected president of the university of Wisconsin. In 1871 he published "Democracy and Monarchy in France," which at once passed to a second edition, and was published in a German translation in Stuttgart. In 1882 appeared his "Manual of Historical Literature," of which the third edition, much enlarged, was published in 1889. In 1884 he edited "Representative British Orations," and in 1892 "Christopher Columbus." He was editor-in-chief of the revised edition of "Johnson's Cyclopædia," which was completed in 1895. He contributed to the Forum, the North American Review and other reviews in the United States, and to the Contemporary Review in England. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Chicago in 1874, and from Harvard in 1886. He resigned the presidency of the University of Wisconsin, Oct. 11, 1901, and spent the winter in Redlands, Cal., where he died July 26, 1902. ADAMS, Charles W., soldier, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 16, 1817. He removed to New Albany, Ind., with his parents in 1819; was educated in the public schools and removed to Helena, Arkansas Ty., in 1835, becoming a bank-cashier. He fitted himself for the law; was admitted to the bar in 1839; practised for some time with W. K. Sebastian, afterwards U.S. senator, and was judge of the 1st circuit court of the territory, 1852-4. He was a member of the peace convention at Washington, D.C., in February, 1861, and also of the constitutional convention in March, 1861, which met to decide upon the relation of Arkansas to the Union, and subsequently adopted the ordinance of secession. He entered the Confederate army as quartermaster with the rank of major on the staff of Gen. Thomas H. Bradley and after organizing the department over which he presided, resigned and recruited the 23d Arkansas infantry, becoming its colonel. He joined the army of the Tennessee at Corinth, Miss., and subsequently became chief of staff to General Hindman in the trans-Mississippi department, being transferred with him to the army of the Tennessee. He was commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate army for gallantry at Missionary Ridge, and was then assigned to the northern subdivision of the trans-Mississippi department where he served until the surrender of Lee. He removed to Memphis, Tenn., in 1865, practised law there in partnership with Gen. Albert Pike until 1869, and thereafter alone. He died in Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 9, 1878. ADAMS, Elmer Bragg, jurist, was born in Pomfret, Vt., Oct. 27, 1842, a lineal descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1865; organized a system of free schools in Atlanta and Milledgeville. Ga., under the direction of the American Union commission in 1865, and studied law at Harvard. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1868: engaged in practice in St. Louis, Mo., and was married in 1870 to Emma Richmond of Woodstock, Vt. He was judge of the circuit court in St. Louis, 1878-84; declined a second term and resumed practice as a member of the firm of Boyle, Adams and McKeighan, which subsequently became Boyle and Adams. He became U.S. judge of the Eastern district of Missouri in 1896, and was a lecturer in the University of Missouri, where he received the degree LL.D. ADAMS, Franklin George, historian, was born at Rodman, Jefferson county, N.Y., May 13, 1824. His father was a farmer, and he had only the limited educational advantages of farmers' sons of the period—the district school for less than half the year. But he made the most of his scanty opportunities, and by the time he was nineteen had fitted himself for teaching the English branches in a somewhat advanced school at Cincinnati. This he did until he was twenty-four years of