William Adams was a Episcopal clergyman born in Monaghan, Providence of Ulster, Ireland.

Religious Life

He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and migrated to the U.S. in 1838. He graduated from General Theological Seminary, New York, in 1841, and in the same year was sent to Wisconsin with J. L. Breck and other classmates to do missionary work. In 1842 he was one of the founders of Nashotah House, a theological seminary near Milwaukee.

Except for a brief absence in the East, he was associated with Nashotah from 1842 until his retirement in 1893. He took prominent part in the affairs of the Wisconsin diocese and of the general conventions of the Church. He also had charge of the Delafield and Pine Lake churches from 1878 to 1886. Adams wrote several theological works, including Mercy to Babes in 1847. 

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