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Quincy Quincy
Quincy 1 City (1990 pop. 39,681), seat of Adams co., W Ill., on a bluff above the Mississippi; inc. 1839. It is a trade, industrial (steel parts), and distribution center in a grain and livestock area. The city and county were named for John Quincy Adams . Quincy has a good harbor and was an... Read more
Braintree Braintree
Braintree town (1990 pop. 33,836), E Mass., a suburb of Boston; inc. 1640. Metal, rubber, and paper are among its manufactures. Braintree included Quincy (birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adams ) until 1792 and Randolph until 1793. John Hancock and Gen. Sylvanus Thayer ,... Read more
Josiah Quincy (1744-75) Josiah Quincy (1744-75)
Josiah Quincy , 1744-75, political leader in the American Revolution, b. Boston. An outstanding lawyer, he wrote a series of anonymous articles for the Boston Gazette in which he opposed the Stamp Act and other British colonial policies. Nevertheless, Quincy, along with John Adams, defended the... Read more
National Bureau of Standards National Bureau of Standards
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. The question of standards first arose with the union of the thirteen colonies. In a predominantly agricultural nation, the power to coin money, to regulate the alloy and value of coin, and to fix the standard of weights and measures... Read more
John Quincy Adams Ward John Quincy Adams Ward
John Quincy Adams Ward 1830-1910, American sculptor, b. Urbana, Ohio. He was trained under H. K. Brown, whom he assisted in the execution of the equestrian statue of George Washington in New York City. His Indian Hunter (1864) was the first of many works for Central Park, New York City. His... Read more
Abigail Adams Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams 1744-1818, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams , b. Weymouth, Mass. She was born Abigail Smith. A lively, intelligent woman, she was the chief figure in the social life of her husband's administration and one of the most distinguished and... Read more
Charles Francis Adams (economist) Charles Francis Adams (economist)
Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915, American economist and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). In the Civil War he fought at Antietam and Gettysburg and was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers. Adams became a railroad expert after the war, writing Chapters of Erie ... Read more
John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States (1825-29), b. Quincy (then in Braintree), Mass.; son of John Adams and Abigail Adams and father of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He accompanied his father on missions to Europe, gaining broad knowledge from study and... Read more
International Affairs International Affairs
International Affairs Sources Security and Expansion.American foreign policy before the mid twentieth century was generally isolationist. The United States avoided alliances or entanglements with other nations. This does not mean that diplomacy was passive. Rather... Read more
Catharine Esther Beecher Catharine Esther Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher 1800-1878, American educator, b. East Hampton, N.Y.; daughter of Lyman Beecher. She first taught in New London, Conn., and in 1824 founded a girls' school in Hartford. Later she organized the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati (1832) and similar institutions in Quincy,... Read more

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