The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, John F.

ADAMS, John F., clergyman, was born at Stratham, N. H., May 23, 1790. At the age of twenty-two he received a preacher's license from the New England Methodist Conference and went to Maine, where he won distinction as an earnest and effective preacher. It is said that "his appointments were sometimes fifty miles apart, and to keep them he often rode through rain and snow all day without food, and all night with no other bed than the back of his horse." He was appointed presiding elder of Boston, Lynn and other Massachusetts districts, and was a prominent abolitionist. He was four times delegate to general conference. He died June 11, 1881.