Accidents (New York, 1879); Richard Henry Dana: A Biography (Boston, 1891); Three Episodes of Massachusetts History (Boston, 1892), a work which gives an account of the settlement of Boston Bay, of the Antinomian controversy, and of church and town government in early Massachusetts; Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History (Boston, 1893), an excellent Life of Charles Francis Adams (Boston, 1900), in the American Statesmen Series, and Lee at Appomattox, and Other Papers (1902). In collaboration with his brother, Henry Adams, he also published Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (New York, 1871).
ADAMS, Charles Kendall, LL.D., J.U.D. (1835-1902). An American educator and historian. He was born in Derby, Vt.; removed to Iowa in 1855, and in 1861 graduated at the University of Michigan, where he was assistant professor of Latin and history from 1863 to 1867, and full professor of history from 1867 to 1885. Having studied in Germany, France, and Italy in 1867 and 1868, he followed the German method of instruction, and in 1869 and 1870 established an historical seminary which proved of great value in promoting the study of history and political science. In 1881 he was made non-resident professor of history at Cornell, and in 1885 succeeded Andrew D. White as president of that university. This position he resigned in 1892, and from then until 1902 was president of the University of Wisconsin. In 1890 he was president of the American Historical Association. He was editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia (now the Universal Cyclopædia) from 1892 to 1895. Among his publications are Democracy and Monarchy in France (1872); a valuable Manual of Historical Literature (1882); British Orations (1884), and Christopher Columbus, His Life and Work (1892).
ADAMS, Charles R. (1848-1900). An American dramatic tenor. He was born at Charlestown,
Mass. He studied in Vienna, and sang for three years at the Royal Opera, Berlin, and for nine years at the Imperial Opera, Vienna. Though he was an American, his reputation, especially as a Wagnerian singer, was earned
chiefly abroad. In 1879 he look up his residence in Boston, where he was highly esteemed as a teacher.
ADAMS, Edwin (1834-77). An American
actor. He was born in Massachusetts, and first appeared at the Boston National Theatre, August 29, 1853, as Stephen in The Hunchback. He played Hamlet with Kate Bateman and J. W. Wallack at the New York Winter Garden in 1860, and then starred in all the principal cities; reappeared in New York in 1866, as Robert Landry in The Dead Heart; was in the company when Booth's Theatre opened, February 3, 1867, and played Mercutio, Iago, and Enoch Arden in that house. It was in the latter character that he attracted the most attention. He visited Australia, where his health failed.
ADAMS, Frederick W. (1787-1859). An
American physician and violin-maker. He was born at Pawlet, Vt.. studied at Dartmouth College, and practiced with much success as a physician. He made a number of excellent violins of wood selected by himself from the
forests of Vermont and Canada. He published Theological Criticism (1843).
ADAMS, Hannah (1755-1832). One of the earliest American women writers. She was the author of Views of Religious Opinions (1784); History of New England (1799); Evidences of Christianity (1801) and a History of the Jews (1812), all of which brought fame, but little money. Her home was in Brookline, Mass.
ADAMS, Henry (1838—). An American historian, third son of Charles Francis Adams (q.v.). He was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He was private secretary to his father when the latter was Minister to England, assistant professor of history at Harvard from 1870 to 1877, and editor of the North American Review in 1875 and 1876. One of the fruits of his original methods of instruction was a volume of Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law (1876), of which he wrote the first, on Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law. The others were by H. C. Lodge. E. Young, and J. L. McLaughlin. He subsequently made his home in Washington, and devoted himself to a study of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, the results of which appeared in nine volumes as a History of the United States from 1801 to 1817 (1889-90), a work of original research. He previously edited the writings of Albert Gallatin (3 volumes, 1879), and wrote a life of John Randolph (1882; second edition, 1898) for the American Statesmen Series.
ADAMS, Henry Carter (1852—). An American economist. He was born in Davenport, Ia., and was educated at Iowa College and Johns Hopkins University. He was statistician to the Interstate Commerce Commission and special agent of the eleventh census, in charge of the department of transportation, and is professor of political economy and finance at the University of Michigan. His publications, besides reports, include: Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816 (1884); Public Debts (1887); Relation of the States to Industrial Action (1887); Relation of American Municipalities to Quasi-Public Works (1888).
ADAMS, Herbert Baxter (1850-1901). An American educator and historian. He was born at Amherst, Mass., and educated at Amherst College. He took his doctor's degree at Heidelberg and then became connected with the Johns Hopkins University at its inception in 1870. He was made associate professor of history in 1883 and professor in 1891. Owing to ill health, he resigned in 1901. He edited the valuable Johns Hopkins Studies in History and Political Science from the beginning, and an important series of monographs on American educational history published by the United States Bureau of Education. Among his many monographs may he cited: The Germanic Origin of the New England Towns, Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States, and Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia. His most important work is The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks (2 volumes, 1893). Dr. Adams's influence upon historical studies in America, especially through the numerous pupils whom he trained, was very beneficial. He took great interest in university extension, and in the work of the American Historical Association, of which he was secretary from its founding in 1884 until 1900, when he resigned and was made first vice-president.
