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E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams
1813–1871
A 19th-century American clergyman and writer, he spent years ministering to seamen in Le Havre, France, before serving churches in New Hampshire and Philadelphia. His work blends religious conviction, public thought, and the concerns of a nation heading into civil war.
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About the author
Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1836, he went on to build a career as both a minister and an author. In 1840 he became chaplain to seamen at Le Havre, France, a role he held for about a decade before returning to the United States.
He later served as pastor of the Pearl Street Congregational Church in Nashua, New Hampshire, and then worked in Philadelphia, where he was connected with the American and Foreign Christian Union and led the New School Presbyterian congregation on North Broad Street. Dartmouth later awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity.
His surviving books and sermons show a writer deeply engaged with moral and civic questions. Readers today are most likely to encounter him through works such as Government and Rebellion, a Civil War-era sermon, and through hymn and religious history sources that preserve his broader legacy.