Henry Adams
Subtitle: a biography
By: Elizabeth Stevenson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Copyright date: 1955
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Historians
Description: Henry Brooks Adams was born on 16 Feb. 1838 in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was the son of Charles Francis Adams & Abigail Brooks Adams & the grandson of former President John Quincy Adams. Adams married Marian Hooper on 27 June 1872. They apparently had no children. He was a Harvard professor of history, noted writer & world traveler. After a period of melancholy, Marian Adams committed suicide on 6 Dec. 1885 in Washington, D.C. Henry died 27 Mar. 1918. .
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-405) and index.

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