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William Adams (January 25, 1807 – August 31, 1880) was a noted clergyman and academic.

Early life

Colchester, Connecticut

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in 1807 to John Adams

John Adams (educator)

John Adams was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr...

(1772–1863), a 1795 graduate of Yale

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who was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools, and Elizabeth Ripley, the daughter of Gamaliel Ripley and Judith Perkins and a great great granddaughter of Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony

Plymouth Colony

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and a passenger on the Mayflower

Mayflower

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Education

He prepared for College at Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy

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at Andover, Massachusetts

Andover, Massachusetts

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and graduated from Yale College

Yale College

Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.-Residential colleges:...

in 1827. He studied for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, under Professor Moses Stuart

Moses Stuart

Moses Stuart , an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut.-Life and career:He was reared on a farm graduating with highest honours at Yale in 1799; in 1802 he was admitted to the Connecticut bar and was appointed as a tutor at Yale, where he remained for two years...

, graduating in 1830.

Marriage

On July 13, 1831, he married Susan P. Magoun, the daughter of Thatcher Magoun and Mary Bradshaw. Following the death of his first wife (she died on May 22, 1834), he married her sister, Martha Bradshaw Magoun on August 12, 1835.

Career

In February 1831, he was ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church in Brighton, Massachusetts, where he remained until April 1834. In August 1834, he took charge of the Central Presbyterian Church on Broome Street in New York City

New York City

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.

In 1836, he was a member of the group that founded the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...

. In 1852, he served as the moderator of the New School Party, and was chairman of the New School Committee of Conferences in 1866. In 1874, he became the president of the Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

. He also served as a member of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and as the president of the Presbyterian Foreign Board.

In 1853 his congregation founded the Madison Square Presbyterian Church

Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City (1854)

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, whose pastorate he resigned in 1873, after nearly forty years of consecutive service in one Church, to accept the presidency of the Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York, in connection with the professorship of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology.

Death

He died on August 31, 1880 at Orange Mountain, New Jersey. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery

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, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Descendants

His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Adams (1842–1918), married in New York City on November 9, 1864, John Crosby Brown

John Crosby Brown

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(1838–1909), the son of James Brown and Eliza Maria Coe. James Brown was the well known banker and founder of the family company Brown Bros. & Co.

Brown Bros. & Co.

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John graduated from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

in 1859 and from 1866 onward, he was the senior partner of Brown Bros. & Co.

Brown Bros. & Co.

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This company merged in 1931 with Harriman Brothers & Company

Harriman Brothers & Company

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to become Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

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, one of the oldest and largest partnership banks in the United States.

A Grandson of William Adams was William Adams Brown (1865–1943). He was born in New York City and was educated privately at first, then went to St. Paul's School

St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)

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in Concord, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire

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. He received from Yale University

Yale University

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an A.B. degree in 1886, an A.M. degree in 1888 and a Ph.D. in 1901. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

in 1890 and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1893. He also studied at the University of Berlin from 1890 to 1892. He was a member of the Yale Corporation

Yale Corporation

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from 1917 to 1934, and was acting president of Yale University

Yale University

from 1919 to 1920.

Another Grandson was William Adams Delano

William Adams Delano

William Adams Delano , an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long Island and elsewhere, building townhouses, country houses, clubs, banks and buildings for...

(January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960), an 1895 graduate of Yale

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, who was a prominent American architect, and a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich

Chester Holmes Aldrich

Chester Holmes Aldrich was an American architect and director of the American Academy in Rome from 1935 until his death in 1940.-Early life:...

in the firm of Delano & Aldrich that worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City

New York City

and Long Island, building townhouses, country houses, clubs and banks, often in the neo-Georgian and Federal styles, combining brick and limestone, which became their trademark.

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