Adams, Newton, Md

Adams, Newton, M.D., a Baptist missionary, was born at East Bloomfield, N.Y., in 1804. When he was thirty years of age he decided to enter upon missionary life,. and in that capacity, in 1834, went to South Africa to labor among the Zulus. He was one of six men who with their wives went to the Zulu country to establish there a missionary station. In 1844 he was ordained a minister of the Gospel. His death occurred Sept. 16, 1851, when he was in the prime of his life and of his usefulness. See Allen, Amer. Biog. s.v. (J. C. S.)