Henry Adams

Henry Adams (December 17, 1802 – November 3, 1872) was a Baptist pastor and leader in the Black community in 19th-century Kentucky. He was born to free parents in Franklin County, Georgia, and became ordained at age 23. He preached throughout the Deep South before moving to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1829, where he became minister to Black members of First Baptist Church. He also taught night school, attended by many slaves and free blacks before and after emancipation, including William Henry Steward and Bartlett Taylor.

Later in life, he led a movement that culminated in the founding of the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (later Simmons College of Kentucky) in 1879.

He married Margaret Corbin, sister of Joseph Carter Corbin, in 1842 and they had five children. He died on November 3, 1872, due to a heart attack.