Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was born in Boston on 27 May 1835, the third child and second son of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the grandson of John...

The Civil War caught Americans in various stages of a profound economic transformation. Pockets of the nation, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, had begun to industrialize and to lay the foundations for centralized, national market...

Adams was born into a family with a long legacy in American public life. He was the great-grandson of both United States President John Adams and United States Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, and the grandson of president John...

Charles Francis Adams, retired chairman of the Raytheon Co. and a descendant of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, has died at 88. Adams, who died Tuesday, was the great-great-great grandson of President John Adams, the great-great grandson of President John Quincy...

The scene was the British Embassy in Washington some years ago. Charles Francis Adams, who died last Tuesday, was presenting the World Affairs Council's Herter Award to Margaret Thatcher. Upon being introduced to Adams, the prime minister excitedly called her husband to fetch a...