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Charles Adams (other)
Charles or Charlie Adams may refer to: Academics * Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902), American educator and historian * Charles Joseph Adams (1924–2011), American educator and academic * Charles P. Adams (college president) (1873–1961), founding president of Grambling State University Arts and entertainment * Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), English pioneer detective novelist, lawyer and anti-vivisectionist * Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American poet * Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942), American landscape artist * Charles James Adams (1859–1931), English landscape artist * Charles Kingsley Adams (1899–1971), British civil servant; National Portrait Gallery director * Charles R. Adams (1834–1900), American opera singer * Charles Adams (1869–1937), pseudonym for Charles A. Prince, celesta soloist * Charlie Adams (drummer) (born 1954), American drummer Military * Charles W. Adams (Confederate general) (1817–1878), Confederate States Army officer; g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kendall Adams
Charles Kendall Adams (January 24, 1835 – July 26, 1902) was an American educator and historian. He served as the second president of Cornell University from 1885 until 1892, and as president of the University of Wisconsin from 1892 until 1901. At Cornell he established a new law school, built a library, and appointed eminent research professors for the Ivy League school. At Wisconsin, he negotiated ever-increasing appropriations from the state legislature, especially for new buildings such as the library. He was the editor-in-chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1892–1895), and of the successor Universal Cyclopaedia (1900), sometimes referred to as Appleton's Universal Cyclopaedia. Biography He was born on January 24, 1835, in Derby, Vermont, and he attended the common schools in that place till 1855, when, with his parents, he emigrated to Denmark, Iowa, where he entered an academy and commenced the study of Latin and Greek with the purpose of entering college. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Adams (MP)
Charles Adams (2 November 1753 – 15 November 1821) was a British politician who served as the Tory MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between 1801 and 1812. He voted against the Convention of Cintra The Convention of Cintra (or Sintra) was an agreement signed on 30 August 1808, during the Peninsular War. By the agreement, the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict. The Convention was sign .... References Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Adams, Charles (MP) UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 1753 births 1821 deaths Tory members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom {{England-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles William Adams (surveyor)
Charles William Adams (7 July 1840–29 October 1918) was a New Zealand surveyor, astronomer and public servant. He was born in Buckland, Tasmania, Australia on July 7th 1840. His son, Charles Edward Adams, pursued a similar career as a university lecturer, surveyor, astronomer and seismologist. His daughter, Ella Spicer, and granddaughter, Peggy Spicer Mary Margaret Gore Spicer (1908–1984) was a New Zealand artist. Education Spicer was educated at Chilton Saint James School in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland, Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. She then ..., were both painters. References New Zealand public servants New Zealand surveyors Australian emigrants to New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand astronomers People from Tasmania 1840 births 1918 deaths 20th-century New Zealand public servants 19th-century New Zealand astronomers {{astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Christopher Adams
Charles Christopher Adams (July 23, 1873 – May 22, 1955) was an American zoologist, born at Clinton, Illinois, and educated at Illinois Wesleyan University, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. Adams' parents were William Henry Harrison Adams and Hannah Westfall (Conklin) Adams. He married Alice Luthera Norton in October 1908 and together they had one daughter, Harriet Dyer Adams. His wife died September 1, 1931. He died in Albany, New York and was buried in Burlington, Wisconsin. Career Dr. Adams worked in the fields of general animal ecology and the ecology of prairies, forests and lakes. He began his career as an assistant entomologist at Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, where he worked from 1896 to 1898. From 1903 to 1906, he served as the curator of the University of Michigan Museum. He was then employed at the Cincinnati Society of Natural History and the Museum of the University of Cincinnati (1906–1907). In 1908, Adams moved to the academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hitchcock Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his Monochrome photography, black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored Deep focus, sharp focus and the use of the full Dynamic range#Photography, tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred R. Archer, Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during Exposure (photography), exposure, Negative (photography), negative development, and Photographic printing, printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography. Adams was a life-long advocate for Nature conservation, environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baker Adams
Charles Baker Adams (January 11, 1814 – January 19, 1853) was an American educator and naturalist. Biography He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J. Adams and Hannah Baker. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1830 and Amherst College in 1834 with high honors (having transferred from Yale University to Amherst in 1832), and became an assistant to Edward Hitchcock in the Geological Survey of New York in 1836. In 1837, he became a tutor and a lecturer in geology at Amherst College. He left to become professor of chemistry and natural history at Middlebury College in 1838, remaining in that position through 1847. He served as the first state geologist of Vermont from 1845 through 1848. In 1847, he left Middlebury to become professor of astronomy, zoology, and natural history at Amherst College, a position he retained till his death in 1853, aged 39. He visited the West Indies several times in the interest of science, and wrote on conchology. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Clinton Adams
Charles Clinton Adams (October 11, 1833 – March 15, 1906) was an American merchant and politician from New York. Life Adams was born on October 11, 1833, in Sennett, New York, the son of Robert G. Adams. His grandfather, Captain Jonathan Adams, was a drummer boy in the American Revolutionary War. When he was young, Adams moved to Weedsport, where he clerked in the community store. He later became the senior partner of the firm C. C. Adams & Sons, which dealt in grain, produce, and coal. In 1860, he was appointed postmaster of Weedsport. In 1865, he was appointed revenue collector for the northern district of Cayuga County. He served as town supervisor for Brutus from 1887 to 1890, and was chairman of the board of supervisors in 1890. In 1891, Adams was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Cayuga County 1st District. He served in the Assembly in 1892 and 1893. Adams was married. He had two sons, Charles M. and Willard G. He was a freem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Adams (Manitoba Politician)
Charles Adams (February 27, 1858 – April 2, 1931) was a harness maker and political figure in Manitoba. He represented Brandon City from 1893 to 1899 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal. He was born in Norwich township, Canada West, the son of H.J. Adams, and was educated in Oxford County and at Dundas Collegiate Institute. He learned the harness-making trade from his father and began business in Oxford County. Adams married Clara Filey in 1877. In 1881, he moved to Manitoba, settling in Brandon. Adams served on Brandon town council and was mayor in 1887. He was elected to the Manitoba assembly in an 1893 by-election held after the results of the election in 1892 were declared void and then was elected again in an 1894 by-election. Adams was reelected in 1896 and then was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1899. The Adams Brothers Harness Company later moved its headquarters to Toronto and had branch offices in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edward Adams (industrialist)
Charles Edward Adams (29 October 1881 – 27 January 1957) was an industrialist and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Biography He was born on 29 October 1881 in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), St. Paul's School and Yale with an A.B. in 1904, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After his graduation he spent three years as secretary to the banker Robert C. Pruyn. In 1907 he entered the brokerage firm F. S. Butterworth & Co., then moved to Callaway Fish & Co. in 1910. He briefly joined Foster & Adams and became treasurer of the Air Reduction Co. in 1918. He rose through the ranks of the company, eventually becoming chairman in 1937. Adams served on the boards of a number of companies, including the United States Industrial Alcohol Company, Pur Carbonic, Inc., Dry Ice, Inc., the Cuban Air Products Corp. and served as a trustee for Mutual Life. The highest point in his career came when he was made a director of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Adams III
Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 44th United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. He was skipper of the Resolute which won the 1920 America's Cup. Adams graduated from Harvard College in 1888 and then Harvard Law School in 1892. After going from being a lawyer and then a businessman, he was elected mayor of Quincy in 1896 and unelected a year later. Adams married Frances Lovering in 1899 and they had 2 children. He proposed to the Congress in 1903 that the USS Constitution be restored. He was granted this wish in 1907 when they raised funds to make her open to the public again. Adams was an officer in 43 corporations at one point, including the Harvard Corporation. He then was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1929. He promoted public understanding of the Navy's indispensable role in international affairs, and worked strenuously to maintain naval streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bayley Adams
Charles Bayley Adams (September 2, 1887 – February 6, 1961) was a Vermont politician, judge and attorney who served as President of the Vermont State Senate and a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Early life Charles Bayley Adams was born in Randolph, Vermont on September 2, 1887, a son of Jairus B. Adams and Effie (Thurston) Adams. He was educated in the public schools of Randolph, and graduated from the State Normal School in Randolph in 1905 and Montpelier Seminary in 1907. Adams received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 1913 and settled in Waterbury, Vermont, where he established a law practice. Start of career A Republican, Adams served in local offices including town lister (1917–1918), and town clerk and village clerk (1919 – 1937). From 1920 to 1926 he served as Washington County State's Attorney. Adams was elected to the Vermont Senate in 1930 and served two terms, 1931 to 1935. From 1933 to 1935 he was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edward Adams (politician)
Charles Edward Adams (October 1, 1867 – October 6, 1936) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who was a member of the Minnesota Senate and Minnesota's 25th Lieutenant Governor. Life and career Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1867. His family moved to New York in 1882, then later to the Dakota Territory. Adams attended high school and his first year of college in Fargo, North Dakota before transferring to Princeton University in 1892. After a year he transferred to the University of Minnesota where he completed his degree, graduating in 1896. While there Adams played on the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team from 1893 to 1895 as quarterback and halfback. He later earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1900. Career After a brief period as superintendent of the Granite Falls, Minnesota schools. Adams settled in Duluth, Minnesota and started a law practice. In 1911, he was named special counsel for St. Louis Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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