George adams bio

George Adams - tenor sax, flute, bandleader (1940 - 1992)

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George J. Adams

Founder of the Church of the Messiah (1811–1880)

For other people named George Adams, see George Adams (disambiguation).

George Jones Adams (c. 1811 – May 11, 1880) was the leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint sect who led an ill-fated effort to establish a colony of Americans in Palestine. Adams was also briefly a member of the First Presidency in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite). In preparation for colonizing Palestine, he changed his name to George Washington Joshua Adams, to tie himself to two well-known country builders: George Washington of the United States and Joshua, from the Hebrew Bible.

Conversion and early church service

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George Jones Adams was born in Oxford, New Jersey of Welsh descent. By the 1830s, he had been trained as a Methodist preacher and was a merchant tailor. He was also an aspiring Shakespearean actor, but had little success in being cast in roles.

While traveling from Boston to New York City in February 1840, George, and his wife Caroline (née Youngs) Adams, heard the preaching of Latter Day Saint apostleHeber C. Kimball, and were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the same week. Within a month he had become an elder in the church. In the spring/

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Boston publisher George Adams dedicated himself to numerous reform causes and served in the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.¹

Born in 1807, George Adams spent his early years in Boston before moving with his family to Carver, Massachusetts in 1811. He returned to the city in 1823, then relocated to Plymouth for some time where he established a hat store. By 1835, he moved back to Boston and operated a hat store in the city for much of the next eleven years.²

In 1846, Adams changed professions and began publication of the Boston City Directory, which he continued to produce annually until his death nearly two decades later. According to his obituary, "[Adams] may be said to have created the system of directories, which he extended over this whole section of the Union, with rare enterprise and consummate skill by systematizing the whole business."³ Adams' directories provide valuable insight into the residents as well as the businesses, schools, churches, and other institutions of Boston. He also produced numerous other directories for cities and states throughout the North.

In addition to his work as a publisher, Adams committed himself to abolition and other reform movements. For example, his colleague William Cooper Nell reported that Adams served on the nominating