Daniel Adams (physician)

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Daniel Adams (September 29, 1773-June 8, 1864) was a noted physician, author, and state legislator. He was born in Townsend, Massachusetts to Daniel Adams and Lydia Taylor Adams in 1773.

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 the eulogy for George Washington at the memorial service in Leominster. With Salmon Wilder he published the weekly newspaper Telescope from 1800 through 1802. Around 1805, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, taught at a private school, and edited the monthly magazine Medical and Agricultural Register. In 1813, he moved to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, and returned to the practice of medicine. He served in the New Hampshire Senate from 1838 through 1840. Later, in 1846, he moved to Keene, New Hampshire, where he remained until his death in 1864.

His books include:

• The Scholar's Arithmetic (1801),
• The Understanding Reader of Knowledge before Oratory (1805),
• Geography, or a Description of the World, (1814), 2nd edition in 1816,
• The Monitorial Reader (1841),
• Primary Arithmetic, (1848), and
• Bookkeeping (1849).

[edit] References

• Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.