Charles Follen Adams (April 21, 1842 – March 8, 1918) was an American poet.[1][2]
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| Born | April 21, 1842 Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | March 8, 1918 (aged 75) Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Adams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry during the American Civil War. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, and taken as a prisoner of war. |
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Biography
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Adams was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 21, 1842. He came from revolutionary ancestors, being a descendant of Samuel Adams, as well as of Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill, Massachusetts.[3] He was the son of Ira and Mary Elizabeth Adams, née Senter. He had 9 siblings, and was the youngest of all of them.
He received a common school education, and at the age of fifteen entered into mercantile pursuits. During the American Civil War, at age 22, Adams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry.[4] He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, and taken as a prisoner of war.[5][6] On his release from prison, he was detailed for hospital duty.[4]
In 1864 he returned to Boston and once more engaged in mercantile business.[3] He was married to Hattie Louise on October 11, 1870 in Boston. The couple had two children, Charles Mills and Ella Paige Adams.[7] In 1872, he began writing humorous verses for periodicals and newspapers in a burlesque broken-English imitation[8] of Pennsylvania German dialect.[6] His first published work was "The Puzzled Dutchman" which appeared in Our Young Folks.[4]
Works
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edit- ^ Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Papers: Guide
- ^ Charles Follen Adams at Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ a b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Adams, Charles Follen". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 36.
- ^ a b c Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ "Dorchester Atheneum: Charles Follen Adams". Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
- ^ a b Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 3–4.
- ^ Mehring, Frank (2006). "Deutsch, Dutch, Double Dutch: Authentic and Artificial German-American Dialects". Amerikastudien / American Studies. 51 (1): 93–113.
- ^ "Charles Follen Adams, Roxbury Poet, is Dead". The Boston Globe. March 9, 1918. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems
- ^ "Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams
- ^ "'Cut, cut behind!'" by Charles Follen Adams
- ^ "The new international encyclopaedia". 1905.
- ^ Quint, Wilder D. (December 18, 1897). "VII. Charles Follen Adams ('Yawcob Strauss') in Roxbury". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
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- Guide to Charles Follen Adams's works at Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Works by or about Charles Follen Adams at the Internet Archive
- Works by Charles Follen Adams at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Charles Follen Adams Bio