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William Adams

Clergyman/Professor, Union Theological Seminary

Centurion, 1847–1880

Proposed by
T. S. Cummings
born January 25, 1807
Colchester, Connecticut
died August 31, 1880
Orange Mountain, New Jersey
elected July 7, 1847
Age forty
buried Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
seconder of
Member portrait of William Adams
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 4 & 5, Leaf 8
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Archivist’s Notes

He ostensibly resigned sometime before 1851 and was reinstated in June 1877 with a new set of proposers: Roswell D. Hitchcock and Henry A. Oakley. Father-in-law of John Crosby Brown and Eugene Delano; grandfather of Thatcher M. Brown, William Adams Brown, Moreau Delano, and William Adams Delano; great-grandfather of William Adams Brown Jr., William Richard P. Delano, and John Crosby Brown Moore.

Century Memorial

The list of the latter [deceased members] contains the names of the Rev. Drs. Adams, Osgood and Chapin, besides those of Elliot C. Cowdin, William E. Curtis, Dudley Field, William B. Hoffman, Richard E. Mount, Albert J. Meyer, Charles D. Gambrill, Sanford R. Gifford, Marshall O. Roberts and R. D. Nesmith.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1881 Century Association Reports

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