Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE HOUSE IN WHICH JOHN ADAMS DIED.The Old Charles Francis Adams house, Quincy. here of his own accord to enter Harvard because he thought that, for anAmerican career, an American education was best. Good for him ! exclaimed the boys. Oh, he was quite a remarkable boy, was John Ouincy Adams, UncleTom assured them. When only seven years old he drilled with a musketamong the Continental soldiers, and I have told you how, from the top ofPenns Hill yonder, he stood beside his mother and watched the battle-smoke of Bunker Hill, the storming of Dorchester Heights, and the evacu-ation of Boston. The good people of Ouincy have just erected a cairn tomark the spot--that memorial pile of stones which I showed you on topof the hill, you know. At ten he sailed with his father, the American com-missioner, to France, and all through his boyhood John Ouincy Adamskept a diary that would be a surprise to some girls and boys I know. IN THE HOME OF TWO PRESIDENTS
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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.United States Minister to England during the Civil War. He was private secretary to the American minister to Russia at four-teen, continued Uncle Tom. He was minister to Holland at twenty-seven ; minister to Prussia at thirty ; United States senator at thirty-five ;professor in Harvard at thirty-nine ; minister to Russia at forty-two ; min-ister to England at forty-eight; Secretary of State at fifty, and again atfifty-four; President of the United States at fifty-seven ; member of Con-gress at sixty-four, continuing as such until his death at eighty — the cham-pion of liberty, and a valiant fighter for the rights of free speech, whom noantagonist could daunt and no threats could down. A remarkable man, as 32 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS well as a remarkable boy, was John Quincy Adams—and that s where helived, in that long brown mansion across the bridge, where lived also hisfamous old father and his illustrious son. Oh, what a lovely old place! exclai

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