The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, William (educator)

ADAMS, William, educator, was born in Monaghan, Ireland, July 3, 1813. He was graduated from Trinity college, Dublin, B.A., 1838; and studied law, 1838, and medicine, 1839. He immigrated to New York city in 1839 and entered the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, graduating in 1841. He was ordained a deacon July, 1841, and priest Oct. 9, 1843. He removed to Nashotah, Wis., where he established Nashotah mission, afterward Nashotah House. He was rector at Delafield and Pine Lake, 1878-'86, and occupied the chair of systematic divinity at Nashotah House as professor and professor emeritus from its foundation to the time of his death. He published: "Mercy to Babes" (1847); "Christian Science" (1850) and a new "Treatise on Baptismal Regeneration" (1871). He died in Nashotah, Wis., Jan. 2, 1897.