Sherman Wolcott Adams

Sherman Wolcott Adams

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Hartford Born in Wethersfield Connecticut on May 5, 1836 the son of Welles Adams and Mary Welles Griswold He is a descendant of William Adams of Cambridge Mass who died in 1853 and others of his ancestry were early settlers of Wethersfield.

He was educated at the Wethersfield Academy and the Alger Institute at Cornwall Connecticut. Studied law with Herman Barbour II, Esquire and Thomas Clapp Perkins Esquire and at the Harvard Law School. Admitted to the bar in Boston, Massachusetts in 1861.

He was an assistant paymaster in the United States Navy from March 1862 to October 1864. He was a member of the General Assembly from the town of Wethersfield in 1866; associate judge of the Police Court of Hartford from 1877 to 1883 and since 1884 has been president of the Board of Park Commissioners. He received the degree of A.M. from Trinity College in 1894. He is a member of the American Historical Association and of the Harvard Law School Association and the Connecticut Historical Society.

He translated Tenot's "Coup d'Etat de Napoleon III;" was the author of several chapters of the "Memorial History of Hartford County" and has published many historical sketches.
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Sherman Wolcott Adams was born on 5 May 1836, the son of Welles and Mary Adams (Griswold). He lived in Hartford, Connecticut, and became a member of the Connecticut Historical Society on 2 November 1875. He died on 19 October 1898 and is buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetary. Adams served in the United States army during the Civil War and following the war resumed his practice as a lawyer--and later judge--in Hartford. He was also active in state government. An enthusiastic amateur historian, he was the author of numerous papers. Henry R. Stiles's History of Ancient Wethersfield is largely based on Adams's manuscript.

Works – Sherman Wolcott Adams – People – eMuseum

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The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut By Dwight Loomis, Joseph Gilbert Calhoun)