page_title: Charles Francis Adams Sr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Francis Adams Sr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: "Charles Francis Adams," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. 59 3/8 in. x 34 1/4 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of C. F. Adams Jr. and his brothers. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
context_page_description: Charles Francis Adams Sr. was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. He was a son of President John Quincy Adams, and grandson of President John Adams, about whom he wrote a major biography. He was the father of Henry Adams.
  Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War, Adams served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key role in keeping the British government neutral and not diplomatically recognizing the Confederacy.
  Adams became an overseer of Harvard University and built Adams National Historical Park, a library in Quincy, Massachusetts honoring his father.
context_section_description: On September 3, 1829, he married Abigail Brown Brooks (1808–1889), whose father was shipping magnate Peter Chardon Brooks (1767–1849).  She had two sisters, Charlotte, who was married to Edward Everett, a Massachusetts politician, and Ann, who was married to Nathaniel Frothingham, a Unitarian minister.  Together, they were the parents of:
  Louisa Catherine Adams (1831–1870), who married Charles Kuhn
  John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894)
  Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915)
  Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
  Arthur George Adams (1841–1846), who died young
  Mary Gardiner Adams (1845–1928), who married Dr. Henry Parker Quincy
  Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (1848–1927)
  Adams died in Boston on November 21, 1886, and was interred in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy. He was the last surviving child of John Quincy Adams.
  His wife Abigail's "health and spirits" worsened after her husband's death, and she died at Peacefield on June 6, 1889.
caption: Portrait of Adams in 1867 by William Morris Hunt
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