Henry Adams

1844-

Henry Adams wrote many temperance pamphlets, claiming in A Drunkard’s Experience at home and abroad that he at one time was addicted to alcohol.  When a youth, he says in The Bible versus infidelity his delight was reading infidel works, drinking and gambling and spending the evening in the theatre.  He also says he lost his mother when an infant. He appears to have been a seafarer of some kind; he refers in his books to being on the barque “Fanny” of Bristol around 1865, and refers to being in Montevideo, and on a ship from San Francisco to Callao, and on the ship “D.B.” on a voyage from Liverpool to Valparaiso. “Some few years ago I left the port of Liverpool on a voyage to Bonny River, on the west coast of Africa, where I remained for nearly eighteen months endeavouring to secure a cargo of palm oil.” Around 1874, he refers to teaching school in the vicinity of Moncton. In 1888, in A True Picture of the Effects of Intemperance, Adams signed himself “A working man of Yarmouth [NS]," at one time having worked in the Yarmouth Woolen Mill as a manual laborer.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Moncton