The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, John Coleman

ADAMS, John Coleman, clergyman, was born at Malden, Mass., Oct. 25, 1849. He was graduated from Tufts divinity school and Tufts college, from which latter institution he received the degrees of A.M., BL., and DD. In 1880 he was elected trustee of Tufts college. During his pastoral career he had charge of churches at Lynn, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Brooklyn, N.Y. and Hartford, Conn., He became one of the eminent preachers of the Universalist denomination, and was an able writer. He was associate editor of the "Christian Leader" from 1891; and the author of "Fatherhood of God" (1888), "Christian Types of Heroism" ( 1890); "The Leisure of God" (1895), "Nature Studies in Berkshire" (1899) and a biography of William Hamilton Gibson (1901).