Jasper Adams

Jasper Adams (August 27, 1793 – October 25, 1841) was an American clergyman, college professor, and college president.

Early years Adams was born in East Medway, Massachusetts, on August 27, 1793, son of Major Jasper Adams and Emma Rounds, and a direct descendant from Henry Adams. He was graduated from Brown University in 1815, studied at Andover, Massachusetts, theological seminary, from 1816 to 1817.

He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1819 and that of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1827.

Last years In 1838, he became a chaplain and a professor of geography, history and ethics, at the West Point, New York, a position he retained through 1840, when became principal of the seminary at Pendleton, South Carolina, until his death there on October 25, 1841.

Writings by Jasper Adams "The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States" (1833), in The Sacred Rights of Conscience, edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2009): 597–610.