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E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams
1813–1871
A 19th-century American minister and writer, his surviving works bring together sermon, public argument, and moral reflection. His life carried him from New England to France and back again, giving his writing a wider world than many of his contemporaries.
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About the author
Born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1813, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1836 and went on to become a Protestant clergyman as well as an author. In 1840 he became chaplain to American seamen at Le Havre, France, a role he held for about a decade before traveling more widely in Europe and returning to the United States.
Back in America, he served churches in Nashua, New Hampshire, and later in Philadelphia. Sources also connect him with work for the American and Foreign Christian Union, and Dartmouth later awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. Alongside his ministry, he published religious and civic writing, including sermons and pamphlets such as Government and Rebellion during the Civil War era.
He died in 1871 in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Today he is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a thoughtful 19th-century voice whose writing reflects the concerns of faith, public duty, and national crisis.