Charles Baker Adams
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Charles Baker Adams (January 11, 1814 - January 18, 1853) was a noted educator and naturalist. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J. Adams.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1834, and became an assistant in the Geological Survey of New York in 1836. In 1837, he became a tutor and a lecturer in geology at Amherst College. He left to become professor of chemistry and natural history at Middlebury College in 1838, remaining in that position through 1847.
He served as the state geologist of Vermont from 1845 through 1848. In 1847, he left Middlebury to become professor of natural history and astronomy at Amherst College, a position he retained till his death in 1853, aged 39.
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- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 72-73.
- Who Was Who in America:Historial Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Quincy Who's Who, 1963.
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