-U.S. Missionary.
Son of Herman S Adams and Sarah Maria (Brooks) Adams.
He entered the preparatory department of the Delaware University in Ohio, and remained there three years, finishing the Sophomore year of the regular course. He then transferred his college connections to Yale, and entered the class of '67 at the beginning of Junior year in the Fall of 1865.
During the years 1872- 1874 he attended the Yale Medical College, and at the same time taught in Gen. Russell's School, New Haven, Conn. Soon after his graduation on August 31st. 1874. he married Sarah C Thomas . They sailed October 31st, 1874, from San Francisco, California for Japan as a Medical Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. He labored for several years at Osaka, Japan; was the head of a benevolent dispensary and the backbone of a drug store; was also Treasurer of the Mission. In a letter received from him in 1877 by the Secretary he wrote that he was then stationed at Kyoto, Japan.
While in Japan, the couple had two children: Sarah [1877-83] and Arthur Herman [1879-
Died of typhoid fever returning to Japan, after settling his wife in California.
A cenotaph appears for him in the Rushville Cemetery
Rushville, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Son of Herman S Adams and Sarah Maria (Brooks) Adams.
He entered the preparatory department of the Delaware University in Ohio, and remained there three years, finishing the Sophomore year of the regular course. He then transferred his college connections to Yale, and entered the class of '67 at the beginning of Junior year in the Fall of 1865.
During the years 1872- 1874 he attended the Yale Medical College, and at the same time taught in Gen. Russell's School, New Haven, Conn. Soon after his graduation on August 31st. 1874. he married Sarah C Thomas . They sailed October 31st, 1874, from San Francisco, California for Japan as a Medical Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. He labored for several years at Osaka, Japan; was the head of a benevolent dispensary and the backbone of a drug store; was also Treasurer of the Mission. In a letter received from him in 1877 by the Secretary he wrote that he was then stationed at Kyoto, Japan.
While in Japan, the couple had two children: Sarah [1877-83] and Arthur Herman [1879-
Died of typhoid fever returning to Japan, after settling his wife in California.
A cenotaph appears for him in the Rushville Cemetery
Rushville, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
-U.S. Missionary.
Son of Herman S Adams and Sarah Maria (Brooks) Adams.
He entered the preparatory department of the Delaware University in Ohio, and remained there three years, finishing the Sophomore year of the regular course. He then transferred his college connections to Yale, and entered the class of '67 at the beginning of Junior year in the Fall of 1865.
During the years 1872- 1874 he attended the Yale Medical College, and at the same time taught in Gen. Russell's School, New Haven, Conn. Soon after his graduation on August 31st. 1874. he married Sarah C Thomas . They sailed October 31st, 1874, from San Francisco, California for Japan as a Medical Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. He labored for several years at Osaka, Japan; was the head of a benevolent dispensary and the backbone of a drug store; was also Treasurer of the Mission. In a letter received from him in 1877 by the Secretary he wrote that he was then stationed at Kyoto, Japan.
While in Japan, the couple had two children: Sarah [1877-83] and Arthur Herman [1879-
Died of typhoid fever returning to Japan, after settling his wife in California.
A cenotaph appears for him in the Rushville Cemetery
Rushville, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Son of Herman S Adams and Sarah Maria (Brooks) Adams.
He entered the preparatory department of the Delaware University in Ohio, and remained there three years, finishing the Sophomore year of the regular course. He then transferred his college connections to Yale, and entered the class of '67 at the beginning of Junior year in the Fall of 1865.
During the years 1872- 1874 he attended the Yale Medical College, and at the same time taught in Gen. Russell's School, New Haven, Conn. Soon after his graduation on August 31st. 1874. he married Sarah C Thomas . They sailed October 31st, 1874, from San Francisco, California for Japan as a Medical Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. He labored for several years at Osaka, Japan; was the head of a benevolent dispensary and the backbone of a drug store; was also Treasurer of the Mission. In a letter received from him in 1877 by the Secretary he wrote that he was then stationed at Kyoto, Japan.
While in Japan, the couple had two children: Sarah [1877-83] and Arthur Herman [1879-
Died of typhoid fever returning to Japan, after settling his wife in California.
A cenotaph appears for him in the Rushville Cemetery
Rushville, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
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