Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1848-03-04
F'om The National Portrait GsIlery.1
rhs pioeRArHY OF JOHN av,NcY
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ssso SsS0N9 " JOHH 0OyNCy
ADAMS,
John Qrincy Adsms ives born ct Brsintrec
in Massachusetts, in that part Of the town since
incorporated by the name Of Quincy. on Satur.
day. July IL. 1867. end was baptized the mex,
day Ia the Congregational Church of the fire;
Parish OF B'aintree. He was named John
Quincy. in consequence Of the interesting cir.
cumstsnce that his msternsl great erautfa,her
of that name. who ives the owner NJ Noun,
Wollss'on. and . leading civil end Military
character Of his time. in honor OF whom the
town Quincy received u. name. was actually
dying At the hour of HE birth. In the eleventh
yesr OF his sgs he accompanied his father TO
france. who was sent by Congress. as j,int
commissioner with Benjamin franklin and Ar.
thur Lee, 10 the Court Of Versatile. They
sailed fr'm Boston in February. l77e. and ar.
rived a, 3 rdeaux early in April While in
France he was pu, to school and instructed in
the language Of the country, a. well as in Latin
Aher about eighteen months they returned to
America in the French irigste L. Sensible, in
company with the Chevalier de La Luzerne,
who came out a. Minister Of France to the Uni.
ted States. They arrived 10 Boston on the tirst
Of August. l779. .1 sgaI cd,
In November If the same year. his father was
again deep,tehed 10 Europe. for the diecharee
Of the diplomatic services which he rendered to
the cause Of America with such memorable Q.
bility snd success He took his son out with
him. II seemed 10 be the determination Of that
great patriot not only To do and to dare every
thing himself for his struggling. country. but
To keep his .nn continually at his side; sothat
BY sharinq his per,ls snd his tolls, he nigh, be.
come imbued with his own exalted enthusiasm
in the csuee Of liberty. and be prepared to vim.
dics'ed it with oil the energies o: his genius
and all the sensIbili,y of his soul. .,..
While the younger Adams was receiving IN.
impressions made npon him BY 4 rsr,icipsiios
ia the patriotic adventures and exsrtions ~ his
father. end imb bne the wi'dcm ard intrepid
energy Of spirit Tor which the latter was 20 die
tinguished. the ssme ehec, was heightened and
dsepsned BY the incuications and exhor,ations
to every public and private virtue contained in
the letters Of hs mother.
The opportunities and privileges Of On educa.
tion Under sueh auspicrs were not thrown ..
way upon him, as the incidents Of his subsequent
career most amply prove. ,.
Ia going 10 ~Eurupe this second time. he
embarked with his father a, Boston, ia the same
French irigate, l., Sensible. btund 10 B,est;
but Is the chip sprung leak in a gale Of wind,
il was necessary to make the first port they
could. which was Ferrol. it Spain. They ira.
yelled from that place to Paris by land. and ar.
rived there in January. 1850. The son ives
Immediately put to school. 10 July of that year
Mr. Adams removed to Hollsnd. There his
son was fret placed in the public city school at
Amsterdam, snd afterwards in the University
st I~yden. In July. 1871, Mr.. Francis Dana.
whc hsd accompanied John Acsms ss secveta
~ OF the embassy with which he was charged.
received the commission Of Minister Pienipo.
,entiary to the Empress of Russia. end took
John Quincy Adams. then fourteen years OF age
with him a. his private secretary. Here The
younger Adams remained until October. 1882,
when he left Mr. Dana Al 81. Petersburch. and
returned through Sweden. Denmark, Ham,
burg, snd Bremen, to Holland. Upon this jour.
n"y he employed the whole winter, passing
considerable time. by the way. in Stockholm.
Copenhagen, and Hamburg. He reached
the Hague in April. 1873. and continued sever.
sl months in fiulisnd. until his father t,ok him
to Paris, where he wss at the signing of the
treaty of peace, which took place in September
Of that year; and from tha, :ime to Msy, 1885,
he was sor the most part with his father in Eng.
land, Holland, and France.
Al his own solicitation. his father permitted
him. whrn eighteen years ofses. 10 return 10
his ns,ve country. Soon alter resching Ame.
rica he entered Harvard Univsrsi,y At IN .d-
vanced standing, aud graduated with dis,ineui.
shed hooos a. bachelor Of arts, in 1857. He
then entered the Office Of the celebrated Tho
phiIus Parsons, At Newburyport. afterwards
Chief Justice of Massachusetts, !; snd afier the
usual term Of ,hses yesrs passed in the study
Of the law. he entered the professon and es,.b-
lished himself at Boston. q I'd. e.. ...
He remained IA that situation 4 years. occu.
pyiaR himseli industriousiy In his Office, ex.
tending hin sequssssscs with the great pris.
eiplss Of Law. snd also Hhins p.r, in the pub
lie questions which then occopied the attention
efhw coun,rymsn. In the summer Of l79l. he
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