Introduction

Biography

Adams was the fa­ther of John Cole­man Ad­ams. He mar­ried twice, to Mar­tha A. Will­ard (1865), and Ma­ry Hall Ba­rrett.

Ordained in 1833 in Rum­ney, New Hamp­shire, he served pas­tor­ates in:

• Claremont, New Hamp­shire (1836–38)
• Malden, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1838–53)
• Worcester, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1853–60)
• Providence, Rhode Is­land (1860–65)
• Lowell, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1865–74)
• Cincin­na­ti, Ohio (1874–76)
• Melrose, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1877–87)

In New Hamp­shire, Ad­ams ed­it­ed the Star in the East, and in Mas­sa­chu­setts the Gos­pel Teach­er, Myr­tle, and the Sun­day School Help­er.

Buchtel Col­lege in Ak­ron, Ohio, award­ed him an hon­or­ary Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree in 1877.

Works

• Practical Hints to Be­liev­ers in the Gos­pel of Uni­vers­al Grace and Sal­va­tion, 1840
• Hymns for Chris­tian De­vo­tion (co-ed­it­or with Dr. E. H. Cha­pin), 1846
• The Chris­tian Vic­tor: Or, Mor­ta­li­ty and Im­mor­ta­li­ty
• Memoir of Rev. John Moore: With Se­lect­ions from His Cor­res­pond­ence, and Oth­er Writ­ings
• Our Day
• Fountain
• Gospel Psal­mist, with S. B. Ball (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1861)
• Memoir of Ma­ry H. Ad­ams, 1865
• The Sab­bath School Me­lo­dist (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: R. A. Bal­lou, 1866)
• Vestry Har­mo­nies (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Uni­ver­sal­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1868)
• Memoir of Tho­mas Whit­te­more, 1877
• Talks About the Bi­ble: To the Young Folks, 1881