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ADAMS.ADAMS. "Jefferson and his Inauguration, in "Old South Leaflets," and in collaboration with Francis Amasa Walker, "The Legal Tender Act." He received the degree LL.D., from Western Reserve university in 1892. ADAMS, Henry A., naval officer, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., June 6, 1833, son of Henry A. Adams. He received a high school education, and when sixteen years old was admitted to the U.S. naval academy, Annapolis, where he was graduated midshipman in 1851, and assigned to the U.S. steam frigate, Susquehanna, of the East India squadron. Upon his return in 1852, he served on board the U.S. sloop Jamestown of the Brazilian squadron, and in 1854 was promoted passed midshipman. The following year he was made master, and, with the U.S. sloop Levant, sailed for the East Indies, where, in 1856, he was engaged in the attack on the Barrier forts at the mouth of the Canton river, China. In 1856 he received his promotion as lieutenant. In 1859 he was on board the U.S. sloop Brooklyn of the home squadron, and in 1861 went with Farragut's fleet to make up the western gulf blockading squadron. He followed the fortunes of the squadron during the first years of the war at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, the capture of New Orleans, Vicksburg and on blockade service. He was commissioned lieutenant commander in 1862, and transferred to the North Atlantic blockading squadron, where he served, 1864-'65. He was in both attacks on Fort Fisher. In his official dispatch of Jan. 28, 1865, Admiral Porter said of him: "I recommend the promotion of Lieutenant-commander Henry A. Adams without whose aid we should have been brought to a standstill more than once. He volunteered for anything and everything." He was with the army when it occupied Richmond, Va., and was one of President Lincoln's escorts when he entered the Confederate capital. He was promoted commander in 1866 and captain in 1870. He was ordered to the ship Guard of the European squadron, 1868-'69; was afterward assigned to duty at the navy yard in Philadelphia, Pa., and then the South Atlantic squadron. He died in Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 1, 1878. ADAMS, Henry Carter, educator, was born in Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1851, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth S.A. (Douglas) Adams, and grandson of Ephraim Adams, of New Ipswich, N.H. He was graduated at Iowa college in 1874. He was superintendent of schools at Nassau, Iowa, 1874-'75; fellow of political economy, Johns Hopkins university, 1876-'89; student at Heidelberg, Berlin, and at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1878-'79; student at Andover theological seminary, 1878; lecturer at Cornell, 1880-'83, and associate professor of political science there, 1883-'87; lecturer on political science at the University of Michigan, 1880-'87, and professor of political economy and finance there from 1887. He received the degree Ph.D., from Johns Hopkins in 1878; and the honorary degree LL.D. from Iowa college in 1898; was appointed statistician of the Interstate commerce commission in 1887; and had charge of the department of transportation of the eleventh U.S. census, 1890. He was elected a member of the International statistical institute; was president of the American economic association, 1895-'97; vice-president of the American statistical association; secretary of the Michigan political science association; and served as associate editor of the International Journal of Ethics. He published "History of Taxation in the United States 1789 to 1816" (1884); "Public Debts" (1887); "The State in Relation to Industrial Action" (1887); "Lectures on Political Economy" (1881); "Statistics of Railways in the United States" (6 vols., 1888-1898); "Economics and Jurisprudence" (1897); "The Science of Finance" (1888). ADAMS, Herbert, sculptor, was born in West Concord, Vt., in 1858, son of Samuel M. and Nancy (Powers) Adams. He was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg and Worcester, Mass., and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied art at the Massachusetts Normal Art school and in Paris, where he was a pupil of Mercie. He married, in 1889, Adeline Valentine Pond of Auburndale, Mass. He opened a studio in New York city, and became a member of the National academy of Design, the Society of American Artists, the National Sculpture society and of the Architectural League. ADAMS, Herbert Baxter, educator, was born in Shutesbury, Mass., April 16, 1850; son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Harriet (Hastings) Adams. He was a student at Phillips-Exeter and was graduated at Amherst, A.B., 1872, and A.M., 1875, and in political science at Heidelberg, receiving the degree of Ph.D. 1876. He became connected with the Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore, Md., as fellow, instructor, associate, and professor of history, and was promoted head of the department of history and political science. In 1882 he began to edit "John Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University [sic] Studies in Historical and Political Science" embracing nineteen annual and twenty-one extra volumes. To this series he made numerous contributions, chiefly in the line of American institutional and economic history. In 1887 he began to edit for the bureau of education, Washington. D.C., "Contributions to American Educational History," embracing American colleges and universities in state groups. Dr. Adams prepared for this series: "The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities," "The College of