Lois Bryan Adams

Lois Bryan Adams (, Bryan; pen name, L.; October 14, 1817 – June 28, 1870) was an American writer, as well as a newspaper editor and proprietor. During twenty years, Adams was a contributor to the newspaper literature of Michigan, and wrote occasionally for New York periodicals of wide circulation.

John Bryan was an excellent carpenter, and the job of building the court-house at Ann Arbor, Michigan having been let to him, he moved his family to that place where they lived during the summer and fall of 1834. On the first day of 1835, they arrived at Constantine, Michigan, having been five days on the road, with household goods and children, all on one wagon with a long reach.

Personal life In early life, Adams was a zealous Methodist. Later, she left the Methodist Episcopal Church. While living in Washington, she became interested in Emanuel Swedenborg.

She had no children.

In May 1870, Adams visited her old home in Michigan and in June, she returned to Washington. Wearied with work, she developed a severe cold, and before her friends knew of her sickness, she died, June 28, 1870, in Washington, D.C. The remains were brought to her Michigan home and laid by the side of her father in the Township Cemetery, at Constantine.

Selected works

Books Sybelle ond Other Poems (1862) Letter From Washington, 1863-1865 (1999)