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Jasper Adams (August 27, 1793 – October 25, 1841) was an American clergyman, college professor, and college president. He was born in East Medway, Massachusetts in 1793, to Major Jasper and Emma Rounds Jasper. Adams graduated from Brown University in 1815. He was a teacher at Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, for three years, later becoming a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Brown in 1819. He was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1820. He became the president of College of Charleston, in 1824, leaving the post temporarily in 1826 to become the president of Geneva College, now called Hobart College. Adams returned to the presidency of the College of Charleston in 1828, remaining there through 1838. During this period he wrote the ''Elements of Moral Philosophy'', published in 1837. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1835.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf )〕 He then became a chaplain, and a professor of geography, history and ethics, at the United States Military Academy, a position he retained through 1840. He died in Pendeleton, South Carolina, in 1841. Adams was a Freemason. He was a member of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 4 in Providence, Rhode Island. 〔Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D.〕 ==References== *''Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jasper Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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