=Abeel, David.= N. J., 1804-1846. A Reformed Dutch missionary in China. Journal of a Residence in China; A Missionary Convention at Jerusalem; The Claims of the World to the Gospel. See Memoirs by G. B. Williamson, 1849.

=Abert= [ā´bert], =Silvanus Thayer.= Pa., 1828- ----. A civil engineer in the United States service. Notes Historical and Statistical upon the Projected Route for an Interoceanic Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific.

=Adams, Mrs. Abigail [Smith].= Ms., 1744-1818. Wife of President John Adams, infra. Known to literature by her entertaining Letters edited by her grandson.

=Adams, Brooks.= Ms., 1848- ----. Son of Charles Francis Adams, infra. A lawyer of Boston. The Gold Standard; The Emancipation of Massachusetts, a careful study of the evolution of religious freedom; The Law of Civilization and Decay, an Essay in History. See The Forum, January, 1897. Hou. Mac.

=Adams, Charles.= N. H., 1808-1890. A Methodist clergyman who wrote extensively, and among whose works are Evangelism in the Middle of the 19th Century; Women of the Bible; The Poet Preacher, a Memorial of Charles Wesley; The Earth and its Wonders; Life of Cromwell; Life Sketches of Macaulay. Meth.

=Adams, Charles Baker.= Ms., 1814-1853. A naturalist, who published Contributions to Conchology; Monographs of Several Species of Shells.

=Adams, Charles Coffin.= 182- -1888. An Episcopal clergyman. Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of Christ; Anthrosophy; The Bible, a Scientific Revelation.

=Adams, Charles Follen.= Ms., 1842- ----. A humourous verse-writer of Boston, principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect Ballads. Har. Le.

=Adams, Charles Francis.= Ms., 1807-1886. Son of President John Quincy Adams, infra. An eminent diplomatist, who was Minister to England during the period of the Civil War. He edited The Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life and Works of John Q. Adams; Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. See Life by his son, C. F. Adams, infra. Hou.

=Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.= Ms., 1835- ----. Son of C. F. Adams, supra. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [_infra_], a Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. Hou. Le. Put.

=Adams, Charles Kendall.= Vt., 1835-1902. The president of Wisconsin University and formerly of Cornell University. Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; Christopher Columbus. Har.

=Adams, Francis Colburn.= Circa 1850. A writer of Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms. Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.

=Adams, George Burton.= Vt., 1851- ----. An historical writer, professor of history at Yale University. Civilization during the Middle Ages; The Growth of the French Nation. Fl. Scr.

=Adams, Hannah.= Ms., 1755-1832. An industrious and painstaking writer on religious and historical subjects, whose chief claim to distinction at present is that she was the first woman in America who made literature a profession. A View of Religious Opinions; History of New England; History of the Jews; Evidences of Christianity. See Memoir by herself, with additions by another hand, 1832.

=Adams, Henry.= Ms., 1838- ----. Son of Charles Francis Adams, supra. An historian and political biographer, living in Washington. Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; History of the United States, 1801-17; Historical Essays; Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. Hou. Lip. Scr.

=Adams, Henry Carter.= Ia., 1852- ----. A political economist of note. Public Debts: an Essay in the Science of Finance; Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816. Ap.

=Adams, Herbert Baxter.= Ms., 1850-1901. A professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, and the secretary of the American Historical Association from its beginning. The Germanic Origin of New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; History of the United States Constitution. He edited the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, infra. Hou.

=Adams, Jasper.= Ms., 1793-1841. An Episcopal clergyman, once noted as an educator at West Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, who published The Elements of Moral Philosophy.

=Adams, John.= N. S., 1704-1740. A clergyman of Newport and Philadelphia, much esteemed in his day as a poet. Poems on Several Occasions, a volume of his verses posthumously collected and printed, shows, however, no very especial marks of poetic talent.

=Adams, John.= Ms., 1735-1826. The second President of the United States, and a political writer of great ability and force. A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, a work relating to the constitutional rights of New England; Thoughts on Government; Novanglus: a History of the Dispute with America from 1754 to 1774; Defence of the American Constitution; Discourses on Davila: a Series of Papers on Political History. See complete Works in 10 volumes, 1850-56. See, also, Lives by J. Q. and C. F. Adams, 1871; John Adams, by Morse, 1885; Histories of the United States, by Bancroft, McMaster, Henry Adams, and Schouler; Parker’s Historic Americans; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Adams, John Coleman.= Ms., 1849- ----. Son of J. G. Adams, infra. A Universalist clergyman and editor of New York city. Christian Types of Heroism; The Fatherhood of God; The Leisure of God and Other Studies in Spiritual Evolution.

=Adams, John Greenleaf.= N. H., 1810-1887. A Universalist clergyman, among whose writings the chief are The Universalist Church, its Faith and its Works; Universalism of the Lord’s Prayer; Talks About the Bible to Young Folks; Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the Ministry of Universalism.

=Adams, John Quincy.= Ms., 1767-1848. Son of President John Adams, supra. The sixth President of the United States, and a statesman whose writings, though mainly political in their character, include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory; The Bible and its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society; Letters on Freemasonry; Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many State Papers. See Complete Works, edited by C. F. Adams, with Life; also Diary of; Lives by Seward, Quincy, Morse; Histories of the United States by Bancroft, McMaster, Schouler. Lip.

=Adams, John Turvill.= B. G., 1805-1882. A lawyer of Norwich, Connecticut. The Knight of the Golden Melice, an historical tale; The Lost Hunter.

=Adams, Julius Walker.= Ms., 1812-1899. An engineer of distinction, who was employed in many important engineering works. Sewers and Drains for Populous Districts.

=Adams, Myron.= N. Y., 1841-1895. A Congregational clergyman of Rochester, New York, from 1876 until his death. The Creation of the Bible; The Continuous Creation, an Application of the Evolutionary Philosophy to the Christian Religion. Hou.

=Adams, Nehemiah.= Ms., 1806-1878. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose most famous work, A South Side View of Slavery, provoked much hostile criticism. Among other works by him are Walks to Emmaus; Scriptural Argument for Endless Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and the Little Key; Evenings with the Doctrines.

=Adams, Robert Chamblet.= Ms., 1839- ----. Son of Nehemiah Adams, supra. History of England in Rhyme; History of the United States in Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to Endeavour, Evolution, a Summary of Evidence; Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason; Pioneer Pith. Lo.

=Adams, Samuel.= Ms., 1722-1803. Cousin of President John Adams, supra. A statesman and orator who fills a large place in the annals of the American Revolution. See Lives by Wells, Hosmer, 1885; Harper’s Magazine, vol. 53.

=Adams, William.= Ct., 1807-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, 1835-80. The Three Gardens: Eden, Gethsemane, Paradise; Conversations of Jesus Christ with Representative Men; In the World, not of the World; Thanksgiving, Memories of the Day and Helps to the Habit.

=Adams, William.= I., 1813-1897. An Episcopal clergyman who was one of the founders of Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin, and professor of systematic divinity there from 1841. Mercy to Babes; Elements of Christian Science; New Treatise of Baptismal Regeneration.