7081. Charles Francis Adams was born on 27 May 1835 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died in 1915. Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915), American public officia l and historian, born in Boston, and educated at Harvard Un iversity. He was the son of the elder Charles Francis Adams . After serving as an officer in the Union army during th e American Civil War, he became railroad commissioner of Ma ssachusetts, and from 1884 to 1890 he was president of th e Union Pacific Railroad. From 1893 to 1895 he was chairma n of the Massachusetts Parks Commission. In 1895 he becam e president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and, i n 1901, president of the American Historical Association. H is works include Railroads: Their Origin and Problems (1878 ), Richard Henry Dana: A Biography (1891), Three Episodes o f Massachusetts History (1892), and Lee at Appomattox (1902 ). Colonel of the 5th Mass. Cav.
He was married to Mary Hone Ogden in 1865 in Boston,
Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Mary Hone Ogden was
born in 1843 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died. Charles Francis
Adams and Mary Hone Ogden had the following children:
+8760 i.
Mary Ogden Adams.
+8761 ii.
Louisa J. Catherine Adams.
8762 iii.
Elizabeth Ogden Adams was born in 1873 in Boston, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts. She died.
+8763 iv.
John Adams.
8764 v.
Henry Adams was born in 1875 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
He died.
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