Ed Rossmann
Special to The Citizen
Thereâs no evidence that John Quincy Adams, librarian of Auburn Theological Seminary, ever made an issue of his name, which is of course also the name of the sixth president of the United States. In his memoir, An Old Boy Remembers, Adams makes no mention of the fact.
He was born Aug. 8, 1849, in Ogden, Monroe County, son of Caleb Kimball and Laura Keeler Adams. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1874, and from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1877, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister the following year. He served in several Presbyterian churches in different parts of the country, including Boulder, Colorado, and San Francisco, before coming in 1907 to Auburn, where he remained 17 years. His centennial history of the seminary was published in 1918.