Biographical Sketches:  CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 772

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - FACULTY HEADS. PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL. D., President of the University of
Wisconsin, was born Jan. 24, 1835, at Derby, Vt.; graduated at the
University of Michigan; pursued his studies at Ann Arbor, Bonn,
Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris; received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts in 1861; Master of Arts in 1862; Doctor of Laws by Harvard
University in 1886; was student in University of Michigan from 1857 to
1862; assistant professor of Latin and history from 1862 to 1867;
professor history from 1867 to 1885; dean of the school of political
science from 1881 to 1885; president of the Cornell University from
1885 to 1892, and elected president of the University of Wisconsin in
1892; president of Am. Historical Association, 1890; president of
North Central Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, 1896;
Is the author of Democracy and Monarchy in France, 1872, German
edition, 1874; Manual of Historical Literature, 1882, 3rd edition,
1889; British Orations, 3 vosl., 1883; Christopher Columbus, His Life
and Works, 1892; editor in chief of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedla, 8
vols., 1995.