. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. and in the bankingbusiness, in Troy. Mr. Van Schoonhoven is Presi-dent of the Central National Bank, a Director, andmember of the executive Committee, of the Samari-tan Hospital; Trustee of the Second Street Pres-byterian Church, and a member of the Board of^L^nagers of the Troy Club. He is a Republican inpolitics, but has never held or sought public office. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 179 ADAMS, Charles Kendall H
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. and in the bankingbusiness, in Troy. Mr. Van Schoonhoven is Presi-dent of the Central National Bank, a Director, andmember of the executive Committee, of the Samari-tan Hospital; Trustee of the Second Street Pres-byterian Church, and a member of the Board of^L^nagers of the Troy Club. He is a Republican inpolitics, but has never held or sought public office. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 179 ADAMS, Charles Kendall Harvard (Hon.) i886Born in Derby, Vt., 1835; educated in the commonschools, and in Academies in Derby, Vt., and Den-mark, la. ; graduated University of Michigan, 1861 ;post-graduate course and , 1862 ; Instructor Uni-versity of Michigan, 1862-64 ; Assistant Professor thereuntil 1867; studied abroad. 1867-68; Professor, 1867-85;President of Cornell, 1885-92; President, University ofWisconsin since 1892. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, , Presi-dent of the University of Wisconsin, wasborn in Derby, Vermont, January 24, 1835, the sonof Charles and Susan M. (Shedd) Adams. His. C. K. ADAMS first American ancestor on the paternal side, WilliamAdams, who was residing in Cambridge, Massachu-setts, as early as 1635, subsequently moved to Bev-erly, where he was admitted a Freeman in 1642,and Thomas Adams, great-great-grandson of William,settled, about the year 1742, in New Ipswich, NewHampshire, where Benjamin Adams, grandson ofThomas and grandfather of the subject of thissketch, was living at the beginning of the nine-teenth century. President Adamss father movedto Derby, Vermont, in 1834. Having pursued theprimary branches of study in the common schools,Charles K. Adams taught school for three winters inDerby. He also attended the Derby Academy two terms and was for three terms a pupil at the Acad-emy at Denmark, Iowa, after which he enteredthe LTniversity of Michigan, taking his Ba
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