Jasper Adams (August 27, 1793 – October 25, 1841) was an American clergyman, college professor, and college president.

Early years

Adams was born in East Medway, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1793, son of Major Jasper Adams and Emma Rounds, and a direct descendant from Henry Adams. He was graduated from

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in 1815, studied at Andover, Massachusetts, theological seminary, from 1816 to 1817.Marquis Who's Who, 1963. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1819 and that of

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from

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in 1827.

Career

He was a teacher at

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of Andover for three years, tutor at Brown, 1818 to 1819, and becoming a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there, from 1819 to 1824. Adams was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, as a deacon on September 2, 1819, and priest on August 4, 1820. He became the president of College of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1824, leaving the post temporarily in 1826 to become the president of Geneva College, New York, now called

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, and returned to the presidency of the College of Charleston in 1828, remaining there through 1838. During this period he wrote the ''Elements of Moral Philosophy'', published in 1837. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1835.

Last years

In 1838, he became a

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and a professor of geography, history and ethics, at the West Point, New York, a position he retained through 1840, when became principal of the seminary at Pendleton, South Carolina, until his death there on October 25, 1841. Adams was a

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, member of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 4 in Providence, Rhode Island.Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D.

Writings by Jasper Adams

* "The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States" (1833), in ''The Sacred Rights of Conscience'', edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2009): 597–610.

References

Sources

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

External links

*
Elements of Moral Philosophy by Jasper Adams (1837, Folsom, Wells, and Thurston of Cambridge, MA edition)
1793 births 1841 deaths People from Medway, Massachusetts 19th-century American Episcopalians Presidents of the College of Charleston Brown University alumni American military chaplains People from Pendleton, South Carolina United States Military Academy faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19th-century American historians 19th-century American male writers American ethicists Historians from Massachusetts 19th-century American geographers 19th-century American clergy American male non-fiction writers Presidents of Hobart and William Smith Colleges {{US-academic-administrator-1790s-stub