Mary Mathews Adams was an Irish-born American writer and philanthropist. The author of thirty or more hymns, it was her Shakespearian study in which she won repute. She became wealthy after marrying Alfred Smith Barnes and distributed numerous benefactions.
- Occupation
- poet, philanthropist, writer, teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 23, 1840
- Died
- December 11, 1902
