The son of Charles Francis Adams Sr, prominent lawyer and Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and grandson of the President John Quincy Adams, Adams was educated at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1856. He served in the Union army in the Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier-general, and saw action at Gettysburg. In 1865, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Railroad Commission and became well-known for his regulatory philosophy regarding the railroads. In 1878, he published Railroads, Their Origins and Problems. From 1884 to 1890, he was the president of the Union Pacific Railroad. His other works include Three Episodes of Massachusetts History (1892), Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1636-38 (1894), Imperialism and the Tracks of Our Forefathers (1898) and 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1913). |
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