Adams, Charles Francis Jr.

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Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. (1835 - 1915), an American statesman and author, born at Boston, Mass. After graduation at Harvard in 1856, he studied law and in 1858 was admitted to the bar. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the Union army, was made a captain, and, before the close of the war, a brigadier-general. From 1884 to 1890 he was president of the Union Pacific Railway Company, and in 1901 was chosen president of the American Historical Association. His published works embrace Notes on Railway Accidents, Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History, Chapters on Erie and Other Essays, Life of Charles Francis Adams and Three Episodes in Massachusetts History.