#1Famous people · Adams
8 famous people were born in Adams, more of them leaders than in most towns
Articles in 16 languages make the American politician Julius Sterling Morton the best known. More than half were born in the early republic, 7 in all. Born in 1818, Alvan E. Bovay is the first name on record, and Bruce Cooper Clarke, born in 1901, the most recent. Per head, the list is long: 16.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in New York has 3.9.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Julius Sterling Morton
in 16 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
Alvan E. Bovay
Youngest
1901
Bruce Cooper Clarke
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Adams’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Adams’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Politics & LawFaithMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Adams is known for
Compared with the usual town, ministers and preachers are the most over-represented field, at 22.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Adams
The three are covered in 16, 10 and 7 languages: Julius Sterling Morton, Bruce Cooper Clarke and William Eugene Blackstone.
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Everyone else born in Adams
The rest number 5, with 3 leaders among them.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Ellisburg lists the most people: 7.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Adams and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (11)
- Julius Sterling Morton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bruce Cooper Clarke: U.S. Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Eugene Blackstone: Contemporary photograph, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alvan E. Bovay: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Benjamin Whipple: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Ninde Gamewell: Photographer not named., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brenton D. Babcock: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marietta Holley: Charles Milton Bell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Burnham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Winfield Woolworth: J. J. Oade, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Bailey: J. H. Beers & Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons