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John Quincy Adams As A Kid
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States. He was the son of the second president of the United States, John Adams. His mother was Abigail Adams, and Adams received the name Quincy from his maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom the town of Quincy, Massachusetts is named. |
Adams was born on July 11, 1767. As a seven year-old boy, Adams watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from the top of Penn's Hill, which was just above the family farm. Adams childhood was anything but normal. He was the son of a president, and spent time acquiring education from the prestigious schools in the country. He spent a lot of time traveling with his father to different countries, and this helped him become an excellent linguist, speaking fluent French and Dutch along with many other European languages including German.
At the age of 14, Adams accompanied Francis Dana as a secretary to St. Petersburg, Russia, so that the new United States would get its recognition. He also stayed in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In 1804, he published a travel report on Silesia.
Adams enrolled into Harvard College, and graduated from the college in 1788. He was also member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity in the college. On graduating, he worked as an apprentice lawyer with Theophilus Parson in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1791, he was admitted into the US Bar Association, and thereafter, he started practicing law in the city of Boston.
In 1779, Adams began to keep a diary where he meticulously wrote down everything that occurred. He continued with this writing until he passed away in 1848. The diary offered historians great insights into many major historical events.
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