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About John Adams
John Adams was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was the 4th Principal of Phillips Academy. His life was celebrated by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in his poem, "The School Boy", which was read at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy in 1878, thus recalls him:Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule — His most of all whose kingdom is a school.
Everything about John Adams →- Occupation
- teacher, educator
- Position held
- head teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 18, 1772
- Died
- April 24, 1863