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Samuel Adams

Page history last edited by Campbell 13 years, 9 months ago

 

 

My first choice is Samuel Adams because I admire what he did in the American Revolution.  My connection with Sam Adams is that we both believe in something strongly, although I’m not fighting for my belief.   I think it’s cool that he went to Harvard College, and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. I think he’s a really, really, awesome dude.  That’s why I would really like to do Sam Adams for my famous American.

 

“The value of learning exceeds any riches.” Samuel Adams wrote these words in the margin of one of his textbooks during his childhood, and, as you will see, he went by these words for the rest of his life

         

Speaking of his childhood, Samuel Adams was born at 12:00 on September 27th, 1722, in Boston Massachusetts.  When he was born, he only had one sibling, a sister, named Mary Adams, and later in life, got a brother named Joseph.  These children were the only three of the twelve children of Mary and Sam Deacon Adams who survived their first few months.  When he was five, he went to Dame School, a school made like today’s elementary and high school.  There he read the New England Primer.  After the Dame School, Sam went to Harvard College.  Unlike other students, he was supposedly only in trouble once in college:  he was late for morning prayers.  At the time, his family was facing many debts, and he just couldn’t hold a job.  His dad gave him a large sum of money to start whatever business he wanted.  He then lent half of his money to a friend, and then somehow lost the rest.  His father then realized that Sam was like King Midas in reverse;  he had the unfortunate ability to turn gold into nothing!!!

  

          Sam married Elizabeth Checkley and had 6 children, out of who only two survived, Samuel and Hannah Adams. After giving birth to a new born son, Elizabeth died.  Just a month later, Sam married Elizabeth Wells, but didn’t want to call her by his former wife’s name, so he called her her nickname, Betsy.  She had no children of her own. One of their wedding gifts was a slave that Sam freed immediately, although she stayed with the Adams family at her own will.  Sam was penniless as an adult, so it’s a mystery how he fed his family.  Sam was too focused on politics to hold a job.  He started a group called “The Sons of Liberty” to revolt against British taxes and hold meetings under the Liberty tree to discuss what to do about British taxes.  With The Sons of Liberty, he held a couple large protests including the Boston Tea Party.  A British congressman called him “The most dangerous man in Massachusetts.”  Samuel Adams helped spark and win the American Revolution, and, without him, there might not be the United States of America.  I’m not sure if he’s improved or made worse the lives of all us people, (I think he made them better) but I can say one thing for sure, he’s definitely changed our lives.  By the end of the American Revolution, Sam was in bad health, and soon he died, on October 2, 1803, at 81 years old. Samuel Adams was one of the two statues that Massachusetts sent to the White House.   

Listen to AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL ADAMS

 

 

 

 

Fradin, Dennis Brindell.  Samuel Adams.  New York:  Clarion Books, 1998

 

“Samuel Adams”.  4/1/2010.  http://www.biography.com 

 

 http://www.foundersofamerica.com/FOUNDING_FATHERS_PICTURES_PORTRAITS/Samuel_Adams.htm

 

 

 

 

Comments (2)

RebeccaM said

at 6:57 pm on May 4, 2010

Love the information and picture.

Campbell said

at 2:26 pm on Jun 9, 2010

lthank you, thank you very much!!!

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