John Coleman Adams

Born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1849, John Coleman Adams became a Universalist clergyman and writer. Sources available here identify him as a graduate of Tufts College in 1870 and its Divinity School in 1872, and note that he belonged to an early generation of Universalist ministers who were raised in that tradition rather than converting to it later.

Adams served several churches during his ministry, including congregations in Newton, Brooklyn, and Hartford. He was also a thoughtful interpreter of Universalist history, and reference sources describe him as one of the first writers to present that movement from a historical point of view.

Alongside his church work, he published books and articles on religion, biography, and natural history. Among the works connected with him in the sources are Nature Studies in Berkshire, William Hamilton Gibson, and Universalism and the Universalist Church. He died in 1922.