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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,
References
Massachusetts that same year. He was chosen to deliver [1] Wilder, David (1853). The History of Leominster.
the eulogy for George Washington at the memorial ser- Fitchburg. pp. 265.
vice in Leominster. According to some accounts, this ver- • Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896.
sion was so popular that the town council had it print- Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 1963.
ed and distributed free to the entire town.[1] With Sal-
mon Wilder he published the weekly newspaper Telescope
from 1800 through 1802. Around 1805, he moved to Bos-
External links
ton, Massachusetts, taught at a private school, and edit- • Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited
ed the monthly magazine Medical and Agricultural Register. by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L.
In 1813, he moved to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, and Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and
returned to the practice of medicine. He served in the Company, 1887-1889
New Hampshire Senate from 1838 through 1840. Later, in Persondata
1846, he moved to Keene, New Hampshire, where he re- Name Adams, Daniel
mained until his death in 1864.
Alternative names
Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks
over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar’s Arith- Short description American politician
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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