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 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 247 JOHN QUINCY, lawyer, eldest son of Charles Francis Adams, born in Boston, September 22, 1833. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1853, and admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. During the civil war he was on Gov. Andrew s staff. He was elected to the legislature by the town of Quincy in 1866, but failed to secure a reelection the following year because he had de clared his approval of Andrew Johnson s policy of reconstruction. In 1869 and 1870 he was again a member of the legislature. In 1867 and 1871 he was democratic candidate for governor of Massa chusetts, and was defeated. In 1877 he was chosen a member of the corporation of Harvard. Mr. Adams died August 14, 1894. CHARLES FRANCIS,, lawyer, second son of Charles Francis Adams, born in Boston, May 27, 1835. He was graduated at Harvard in 1856, and ad mitted to the bar in 1858. He served through almost the whole of the civil war, being commis sioned lieutenant of the First Massachusetts cav alry in November, 1861, and resigning as colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry (colored), with the brevet of brigadier-general, in July, 1865. In 1869 he was appointed a member of the board of railroad commissioners of Massachusetts, and con tinued in that office by successive reappointments until 1879, when he retired. He was then selected