Introduction

Biography

John was the son of John Green­leaf Ad­ams and Ma­ry Hall Bar­rett, and hus­band of Mi­ri­am Priest Ho­vey (mar­ried 1883)

He at­tend­ed high schools in Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land, and Low­ell, Mas­sa­chu­setts. He gra­du­at­ed from Tufts Col­lege, Mas­sa­chu­setts (AB 1870) and Har­vard Di­vi­ni­ty School, Cam­bridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts (BD 1872).

He served pas­tor­ates at:

• Newton Uni­ver­sal­ist Church, New­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1872–80)
• First Uni­ver­sal­ist Church, Lynn, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1880–84)
• St. Paul’s Uni­ver­sal­ist Church, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois (1884–90)
• All Souls’ Uni­ver­sal­ist Church, Brook­lyn, New York (1890–1901)
• Church of the Re­deem­er, Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut (1901–22)

He be­came a trust­ee of Tufts Col­lege in 1880, and of the Uni­ver­sal­ist Ge­ne­ral Con­ven­tion in 1895.

Works

• The Fa­ther­hood of God (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1888)
• Lincoln’s Place in His­to­ry, The Cen­tu­ry Ma­ga­zine, Feb­ru­ary 1894, pp. 590–95
• The Lei­sure of God, 1895
• Nature Stu­dies in the Berk­shires (New York & Lon­don: G. P. Put­nam’s Sons, 1899)
• Christian Types of He­ro­ism (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1891)
• Hosea Bal­lou and the Gos­pel Re­nais­sance of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry (Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1903)
• Universalism and the Uni­ver­sal­ist Church
• The Life of Will­iam Ham­il­ton Gib­son: Ar­tist-Na­tur­al­ist-Au­thor (New York & Lon­don: G. P. Put­nam’s Sons, 1901)
• An Hon­or­able Youth (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1906)
• Short Stu­dies in the Larg­er Faith (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1910)