Adam, Graeme Mercer. Born in Midlothian, Scotland, 1839. Educated at Edinburgh. Came to Toronto in 1858. Engaged in publishing and as bookseller (wholesale). In 1861 published the British American Magazine. From 1869 to 1872, edited the Canada Bookseller. In 1872 with Professor Goldwin Smith and others, he established the Canadian Monthly. Sole editor of it from 1879 to 1883. Established the Canadian Educational Monthly and so ably edited it for five years that it was recognized as one of the best of the kind on the Continent. For some time editor and manager of the Bystander, assisting Professor Goldwin Smith. In 1883 edited the Royal Canadian Readers. Wrote Illustrated Quebec, Illustrated Toronto, Canada from Sea to Sea, Scenic America and several similar volumes. Contributor to Picturesque Canada, which was edited by Principal Grant. Revised Collins’ Life of Sir John A. Macdonald. Became editor in 1896 of Self-Culture, a new magazine published in Chicago. A volunteer officer. Commanded a company at Ridgeway, and was on that occasion presented with an address and a sword.
Adami (ä-dä′mee), John George, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.S., LL.D., was born in Manchester, Eng., Jan. 12, 1862, son of the late John George Adami. He was educated at Owen College, Manchester, and at Christ’s College, Cambridge, studying afterward in Breslau and Paris. He took distinguished honors at Cambridge in natural science, was Darwin prizeman in 1885, M.R.C.S., and was appointed demonstrator of pathology in Cambridge University in 1887. Elected fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1891, he soon after became head of the pathological department of the Royal Victoria Hospital. Since 1892 he has been professor of pathology in McGill University, Canada. He is the author of numerous monographs upon subjects relating to pathology in French, German, English and American medical journals, and of many papers read before medical societies.
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Ad′ams, Charles Francis, the son of John Quincy Adams, was born in Boston, Aug. 18, 1807. He graduated at Harvard College in 1825, and studied law with Daniel Webster. He was for five years a member of the Massachusetts legislature; in 1848 he was the Free Soil candidate for Vice-president, and was elected congressman in 1858, joining the Republican party. He came into great prominence as American minister to England (1861-1868), the same office formerly held by his father and grandfather. He found the great body of Englishmen hostile or indifferent to the United States. His position was one of the greatest responsibility and delicacy. In discharging its duties he showed ability and tact of the first order, and made a reputation as one of the most brilliant diplomatists ever sent out from Washington. He died at Boston, Nov. 21, 1886.
Ad′ams, Charles Kendall, LL.D., president of the University of Wisconsin, was born at Derby, Vermont, Jan. 24, 1835, and educated at the University of Michigan. He also studied in Germany, France and Italy. From 1867 to 1885 was professor of history in the University of Michigan, and from the latter year until 1892 was president of Cornell University. In 1892 he was elected president of the University of Wisconsin. He was the author, among other writings, of Democracy and Monarchy in France; of a Manual of Historical Literature; and of a monograph on Christopher Columbus. From 1892 to 1895 he acted as editor-in-chief of Johnson’s Universal Cyclopaedia. He died July 25, 1902.
Adams, Henry (1838), LL.D., American historical writer, third son of the late Charles Francis Adams, was born in Boston, Mass., and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. Three years later he accompanied his father as private secretary when that diplomat was appointed American Minister to England, and on his return to this country he was for several years instructor at Harvard. During the years 1875–76 he edited The North American Review, and in the latter year he published a work on Anglo-Saxon Courts at Law. Later on he took up his residence at Washington, and there devoted himself to historical research, writing Lives of Albert Gallatin and John Randolph, and an important History of the United States, in nine volumes, treating of the period 1801–17, the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. The latter work was published in 1889–91.
Adams, Herbert Baxter (1850–1901), American historian and educator, born at Amherst, Mass., and educated at Amherst College and at Heidelberg, Germany, obtaining at the latter the degree of Ph.D. Returning to the United States about the era when Johns Hopkins University was founded Dr. Adams became associate professor in that institute and subsequently was appointed full professor. He also became historical lecturer at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and for a time lectured at Chautauqua. He took part in the inception of the American Historical Association and acted as its first secretary, subsequently becoming first vice-president.
