Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . Ji^tJ^^am ?^•- SECOND PRESIDENT. -n-#. .:;???£ JOHN ADAMS. -SCvlo] ^?? « X^ • ?••? ?••• -t*^.t.»,.,. ,.-U-«A,,.t. ^•>. OHN ADAMS, the second, President and the first Vice-President of the United States,was born in Braintree (now-^ Quincy),Mass., and about ten^ miles from Boston, Oct. 19,1735 His great-grandfather, HenryAdams, emigrated from Englandabout 1640, with a family of eight. sons, and settled at Braintree. Theparents of John
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . Ji^tJ^^am ?^•- SECOND PRESIDENT. -n-#. .:;???£ JOHN ADAMS. -SCvlo] ^?? « X^ • ?••? ?••• -t*^.t.»,.,. ,.-U-«A,,.t. ^•>. OHN ADAMS, the second, President and the first Vice-President of the United States,was born in Braintree (now-^ Quincy),Mass., and about ten^ miles from Boston, Oct. 19,1735 His great-grandfather, HenryAdams, emigrated from Englandabout 1640, with a family of eight. sons, and settled at Braintree. Theparents of John were John andSusannah (Boylston) Adams. Hisfather was a farmer of limitedmeans, to which he added the bus-iness of shoemaking. He gave hiseldest son, John, a classical educa- tion at Harvard College. Johngraduated in 1755, and at once took charge of theschool in Worcester, Mass. This he found but aschool of affliction, from which he endeavored togain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to thestudy of law. For this purpose he placed himselfunder the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. Hehad thought seriously of the clerical professionbut seems to have been turned from this by what hetermed the frightful engines of ecclesiastical coun-cils, of diabolical malice, and
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