William Adams (minister)
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| Born |
January 25, 1807 Colchester, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died |
August 31, 1880 (aged 73) Orange Mountain, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Religion | Presbyterian |
William Adams (January 25, 1807 – August 31, 1880) was a noted American clergyman and academic.
He was born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1807 to John Adams (1772–1863), a 1795 graduate of Yale who was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools, and Elizabeth Ripley, the daughter of Gamaliel Ripley and Judith Perkins and a great great granddaughter of Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.
He prepared for College at Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale College in 1827. He studied for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, under Professor Moses Stuart, graduating in 1830.
On July 13, 1831, he married Susan P. Magoun, the daughter of Thatcher Magoun and Mary Bradshaw. Following the death of his first wife (she died on May 22, 1834), he married her sister, Martha Bradshaw Magoun on August 12, 1835.
In February 1831, he was ordained as pastor of the Congregational Church in Brighton, Massachusetts, where he remained until April 1834. In August 1834, he took charge of the Central Presbyterian Church on Broome Street in New York City.
In 1836, he was a member of the group that founded the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. In 1852, he served as the moderator of the New School Party, and was chairman of the New School Committee of Conferences in 1866. In 1874, he became the president of the Union Theological Seminary. He also served as a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and as the president of the Presbyterian Foreign Board.
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