John Adams (educator)

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John Adams
Principal of Phillips Academy
In office
1810–1833
Preceded byMark Newman
Succeeded byOsgood Johnson
Personal details
Born
John Adams

(1772-09-18)September 18, 1772
Colony of Connecticut, British America
DiedApril 24, 1863(1863-04-24) (aged 90)
Jacksonville, Illinois
Spouses
Elizabeth Ripley
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(m. 1798; died 1829)​
Mabel Stratton Burritt
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(m. 1831; died 1856)​
ChildrenWilliam (b. 1807)
Mary Elizabeth (b. 1842)
Parent(s)John Adams
Mary Parker Adams
EducationYale University

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

Principal of Phillips Academy. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus recalls him:

Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule — His most of all whose kingdom is a school.

Early life

John Adams was born in 1772 at Canterbury, Connecticut, to Captain John Adams, a farmer of Canterbury and an officer in the American Revolutionary War and Mary Parker, the daughter of Dea. Joshua Parker and Jemima Davenport. He graduated from Yale University in 1795.[1]

Career

From 1800 to 1803, Adams taught at the Plainfield, New Jersey Academy 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 Academy[2] in Andover, Massachusetts.[3] He remained there until 1833. He also served as the principal of Monroe Academy in Elbridge, New York.[4]

From 1836 to 1843, he serves as the principal of

Jacksonville Female Academy in Jacksonville, Illinois.[4] The Academy was incorporated in 1903 with Illinois College becoming an co-educational institution. (The first president of Illinois College,[5] was Edward Beecher, Yale College, 1822 and a son of Dr. Lyman Beecher, Yale College
, 1797). While in Jacksonville, 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.

Personal life

John Adams married his first wife Elizabeth Ripley on May 8, 1798,

Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower
.

John Adams married, as his second wife, on August 30, 1831, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, Mrs. Mehitable/Mabel Burritt[6] She was born July 19, 1779, in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and died at Jacksonville, Illinois, on July 17, 1856. She was a daughter of Dea. Ebenezer Stratton and Mary Blair.

Mehitable/Mabel married as her first husband at Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on April 12, 1798, Ely Burritt, born March 12, 1773, at

Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. He died September 1, 1823, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1800, and was licensed to practice medicine at Troy, New York, on March 29, 1802, and quickly gained recognition for his medical skills. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Mr. Blackleach Burritt[1]
Colony of Connecticut).[8]

He died in Jacksonville, Illinois, on April 24, 1863.

Descendants

A son from his first marriage was the Rev. Dr.

Union Theological Seminary.[10]

His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Adams, married on November 9, 1864, John Crosby Brown[11] (1838–1909), the son of James Brown and Eliza Maria Coe. James Brown was a well known banker and founder of the family company Brown Bros. & Co. James and Eliza lost several of their children when the steamship SS Arctic sank in 1854.[12]

John graduated from

Harriman Brothers & Company to become Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
one of the oldest and largest partnership banks in the United States.

A son of John and Mary Brown's was William Adams Brown

Presbyterian Church in 1893. He was a member of the Yale Corporation
from 1917 to 1934, and was acting president of Yale University from 1919 to 1920.

A great-grandson of John Adams's was William Adams Delano.

References

  • Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.
  • William Bradford of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. compiled by Robert S. Wakefield,
    FASG
    and Published by the Gen. Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Dexter, Franklin B. (1903). Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History. Cambridge: Henry Holt & Company. pp. 103, 133.
  2. ^ Phillips Academy. "Phillips Academy - An Independent Boarding High School". Andover.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  3. ^ "History of Andover". andoverma.gov. Archived from the original on 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  4. ^ a b Betty Carlson Kay; Gary Jack Barwick; Vernon R.Q. Fernandes; Bob Garner (2009). "Jacksonville - History of the City". Official City of Jacksonville Web Site. Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
  5. ^ Illinois College – About Us – Historic Years
  6. ^ a b Bailey, Sarah Loring (1880). Historical sketches of Andover. Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. p. 539.
  7. ^ Norton, Frederick Calvin (1905). "Governors of Connecticut". Dorman Lithographing Company. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
  8. ^ Norton, Frederick Calvin (1905). "Governors of Connecticut". Dorman Lithographing Company. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
  9. ^ [1] Archived June 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Union Theological Seminary - Timeline". Union Theological Seminary. 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
  11. ^ "John Crosby Brown" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-07-26.
  12. ISBN 978-0-7432-2217-4
    .
  13. ^ "William Adams Brown" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-07-26.

External links

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Preceded by
Principal of Phillips Academy

1810–1833 		Succeeded by
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