John Adams (educator)

John Adams (educator)

John Adams (September 18, 1772 - April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools.

Adams was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1772 to John Adams and Mary Parker Adams. He graduated from Yale University in 1795. In 1798, he married Elizabeth Ripley, with whom he had ten children. He taught at the Plainfield, New Jersey Academy from 1800-1803, when he took the post as principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut. He remained in that position until 1810, when he started at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He remained there through 1832, having married the former Mrs. Mabel Burritt there in 1829. He also served as a principal in Elbridge, New York, and as the principal of a female seminary in Jacksonville, Illinois. While there, he served as an agent of the American Sunday School Union for the middle west region, and assisted in the organization of several hundred Sunday Schools. He died in Jacksonville in 1863, and is buried in Jacksonville.

References

*"Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896." Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.


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