CLASS OF 1854

John Goldthwaite Adams died in Keene, N. H., February 15. He had been in ill health for several months, but his death was quite sudden. He was born in Keene, March 24, 1834, and fitted at Keene Academy. His father, Dr. Charles Goldthwaite Adams, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1810, and his grandfather, Dr. Daniel Adams, graduated from the Medical School in 1803. His mother was Mary Ann King. He intended to follow the profession of his father and grandfather, and began its study with his father, but the latter's death in 1856 changed his plans, and he entered upon the work of a teacher, in which he was highly successful, and to which he devoted more than forty years. This work was performed successively at St. Charles, Ill., Wilmington, N. C., Danbury, Conn., East Bridgewater, Mass., Charlestown, Mass., New York city, Goshen, Conn., Pensacola, Fla., and Greenwich, Conn. An article in the Keene Sentinel says of "A diligent student and a wide reader, he devoted himself to the classics and all the main branches of the profession he had chosen, and especially to fitting young men for college. He also gave much time to botany, art, and music, in all of which he was well versed, and had a taste and skill that was unusual in painting flowers and other botanical subjects from nature. As a conversationalist Mr. Adams was particularly charming and interesting, because of his familiarity with good literature and his large fund of information. He was always genial and companionable, ready and anxious to do for others, and untiring in his loyalty to his friends. He was a devoted churchman, and had been for a long time a communicant of St. James' Episcopal church of this city."

Mr. Adams had been twice married. His first wife, Harriet, daughter of Samuel Lovett of Charlestown, Mass., died in October, 1865, a few months after their marriage. His second marriage, Sept. 14, 1887, was to Anna Perry, daughter of Judge Henry Buist of Charleston, S. C. She survives him, without children.

Secretary, Benjamin A. Kimball, Concord, N. H.