Adams, Isaac (1802-1883)

Name:

Adams, Isaac (1802-1883)

Title:

Inventor of the Adam's Power Printing Press
Member, Massachusetts State Senate, 1848
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1879
Trustee, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 1866-1869

Born:

08/16/1802

Birthplace:

Rochester, NH

Died:

07/19/1883

Death Location:

Sandwich, NH

Residence:

Rochester, NH
Dover, NH
South Berwick, ME
Boston, MA 1823-
Sandwich, NH 1820-1823, 1867-1883

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Inventor
Philanthropist

Father:

Adams, Benjamin

Mother:

Adams, Elizabeth Horne

Relations:

Brother of Seth Adams
Worked with Everett James Ellis

Spouse:

Married (1) Ann Rayne, March 1830
Married (2) Anna R. Goodrich

Children:

Acquila
Isaac
Julius
Durward
Elizabeth

Notes:

1827-1828: He and Everett James Ellis invent Adam's Power Printing Press, which became the most widely used machine in book bindery during the 19th century. Engendered the affordability of print media. Isaac is described as wildly eccentric.

"Hon. Isaac Adams," The Granite Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, History, and State Progress, 3(November 1879)2, 33-37.

Franklin McDuffee, History of the Townof Rochester New Hampshire, From 1722 to 1890. Volume I. (Manchester, New Hampshire: The John B. Clarke Company, 1892), 378.

James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Concord New Hampshire, From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Volume II. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903), 946.

"Appointments by Governor Frederick Smyth," Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, November 1, 1866.

"Adams Donation to the New Hampshire Assylum for the Insane," Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, November 4, 1869.

"Adams Resigns Trusteeship," Farmer's Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, January 13, 1870.