The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, Sherman Walcott

ADAMS, Sherman Walcott, lawyer, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., May 6, 1836, son of Welles Adams. He was educated at Wethersfield academy and at Alger institute, Cornwall, Conn., and graduated at Harvard, LL.B., in 1861. He was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the U.S. navy at the outbreak of the civil war, and served on a gunboat in the Gulf of Mexico. He engaged in the practice of law at Hartford, Conn., after his discharge in 1865, and devoted his leisure to literary work, contributing articles to the "Memorial History of Hartford County" (1886), and to the publications of the Connecticut historical society. He was the author of the resolution passed by the state legislature in 1889, which resulted in the topographical survey of Connecticut in 1895. He published translations from the French, German and Italian, the most important of which is an annotated English version of Eugene Tenot's "Coup d'Etat of 1851" (1870). He died at Hartford, Conn., Oct. 19, 1898.