Ebenezer Adams papers

The collection is primarily composed of correspondence between family members, and a smaller amount of correspondence with friends and acquaintances. Ebenezer Adams' papers also contain deeds, certificates of appointment to office and of membership in learned societies, and a few documents pertaining to the Dartmouth College Case. The most interesting of these latter are a copy of the written charges brought against Adams, Francis Brown and Roswell Shurtleff by the "University" trustees, and the reply those three gentlemen returned to the trustees.

Several other members of Ebenezer Adams' family have been professors at the College. They were Ira Young, who married Ebenezer's youngest daughter, Eliza; John Proctor, their son-in-law; and Eliza and Ira's son, Charles Augustus Young. Each of these men is represented in the collection, as are Eliza Adams Young and Adeline Young Proctor.

Charles Augustus Young spent the Civil War years teaching at Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio. His letters to his mother and sister, included in the Adams papers, express a variety of emotions and opinions in relation to that conflict and its impact on our nation.