Adams, Rev.  David H., of Tunbridge, Orange Co. VT


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"Free Baptist Cyclopaedia"  Historical & Biographical  
by  Rev G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M.   
Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co. 1889, page 10 

Adams, Rev.  David H., was born in Tunbridge, Vt., Aug. 25, 1835.  His parents were George W.
and Eliza M. (Haskell) Adams.  He was converted when 16 years of age under the labors of 
Rex. G. Sanborn, by whom he was baptized at Tunbridge, July 4, 1852. he prepared for 
college, mainly, at Royalton Academy, from which he graduated in 1856.  He also graduated 
from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1860.  After teaching two years, he entered the New 
Hampton Biblical School, New Hampshire, graduating in 1864, and received license to preach 
the same year, Sept. 3.  He was ordained March 12, 1865, by the Huntington Q. M., at 
Huntington VT.  Revs.  E. B. Fuller, R. M. Minard, D. S. Frost, and S. W. Cowell were the 
council.  His first pastorate was at Underhill Centre, VT.,where he remained six years,
and received thirty-seven into the church.  After a year at Waterbury Centre, he was
pastor for three years of the church at Lyndon Centre, where he received seventeen members, 
ten by baptism.  Jan. 1, 1875, he settled at Farmington, NH.  for four years; and, after two 
years at New Market, returned to Farmington for three years, and forty-seven were added to 
the church during that time.  He was then pastor at St. Johnsbury, Vt., nearly, three
years, and received over thirty into the church.  Since Jan. 18, 1887, he has been pastor 
of the church at Franklin Falls, N. H. He was a trustee, and, for a time, treasurer, of the 
Green Mountain Seminary, Vermont.  He also taught at Lyndon Centre.    Aug. 17, 1865, 
he married Miss Harriet S. Morey.