From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Adams (physician)
Daniel Adams (physician)
Daniel Adams (September 29, 1773 – June 8, 1864) was a He also wrote a grammar textbook The Thorough Scholar,
noted physician, textbook author, and state legislator. He or the Nature of Language (1802), a geography textbook
was born in Townsend, Massachusetts to Daniel Adams Geography, or a Description of the World (1814), and an ac-
and Lydia Taylor Adams in 1773. counting textbook Bookkeeping (1849).
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797, and
received his M.D. in 1799. He married Nancy Mulliken in
1800, and began the practice of medicine in Leominster,
Massachusetts that same year. He was chosen to deliver
References
the eulogy for George Washington at the memorial ser- [1] Wilder, David (1853). The History of Leominster.
vice in Leominster. According to some accounts, this ver- Fitchburg. pp. 265.
sion was so popular that the town council had it print- • Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896.
ed and distributed free to the entire town[1] . With Sal- Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 1963.
mon Wilder he published the weekly newspaper Telescope
from 1800 through 1802. Around 1805, he moved to Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, taught at a private school, and edit-
External links
ed the monthly magazine Medical and Agricultural Register. • Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited
In 1813, he moved to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, and by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L.
returned to the practice of medicine. He served in the Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and
New Hampshire Senate from 1838 through 1840. Later, in Company, 1887-1889
1846, he moved to Keene, New Hampshire, where he re- Persondata
mained until his death in 1864. Name Adams, Daniel
Alternative names
Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks
over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar’s Arith- Short description
metic (1801). The text was very popular during the first Date of birth September 29, 1773
quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision Place of birth
of it, entitled Adam’s New Arithmetic, in 1827. Much later
in 1848, he published another mathematics textbook en- Date of death June 8, 1864
titled Primary Arithmetic. He compiled three reading text- Place of death
books during his life, The Understanding Reader (1803), The
Agricultural Reader (1824), and The Monitorial Reader (1841).
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