Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Adams, Rev Edwin Augustus October 21, 1837 - 
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Author: E O Jameson

   EDWIN AUGUSTUS ADAMS, son of Newell and Abigail Fales (Blake) Adams, was 
born Oct. 21, 1837, in Franklin, Mass. 
His parents soon after became residents of Medway. He graduated in 1861 from 
Amherst College, Massachusetts. In 
1861-2 he was a teacher in West Boylston, Mass. Mr. Adams pursued his 
professional studies in Union Theological 
Seminary, New York, and in the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. He was 
ordained and installed, Sept. 3, 1868, 
pastor of the church in North Manchester, Conn. In 1872 he was appointed a 
missionary of the American Board, and 
stationed in Prague, Austria, where he labored for ten years. He then returned 
to this country, and succeeded to 
the pastorate of Northboro, Mass., then recently made vacant by the death of 
his younger brother, the Rev. George 
B. Adams. He remained in Northboro some two years, and then removed to 
Chicago, Ill., and became the pastor of a 
church of the Bohemians in that city.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records 
OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES 
IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.

Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

BY
E. O. JAMESON,

THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC.

MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

 Copyright, 1886.

E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.

All Rights Reserved.

 J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.

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