go international law, and had a law 

 office at 84 Btatt street until hte death. 



On Sept. T, 1889, he married Evelyn 

 Davln, daughter of Rear Admiral 

 Charles Henry Davto and sister ^of the 

 wife of the late United States Senator 

 Henry Cabot Lodge. In 1898 he was 

 frequently mentioned as a possible 

 Democratic candidate for Governor. In 

 1914 during the world war, he and his 

 wife were visiting In Europe and their 

 friends were anxious regarding their 

 Whereabouts, but they returned safely, 

 after a two months' trip. 



Mr. Adams's home was the old Presi- 

 dential manse on Adams street, Quincy, 

 which was bought after the revolution- 

 ary war by his great-grandfather, 

 president John Adams, who died there 

 on July 4, 1826. John Qulrioy Adams 

 also lived In the house many years. 



Brooks Adams was a memfcer of the 

 Massachusetts Historical SoJety, the 

 National Institute of Arts and Letters 

 and other societies of learning. His 

 writings Include "The Emanapatlon of 

 Massachusetts," "The Law of Civiliza- 

 tion and Decay," "America's Economic 



Supremacy," "The New Empire," two 

 chapters In "Centralization and the 

 Law," "Railways as Public Agents," 

 "The Theory of Social Revolutions, 

 "Emancipation of Massachusetts— the 

 Dream and the Reality," and numerous 

 articles and addresses. | 



He was a delegate to the Massachu- 

 setts state constitutional convention In 

 1917, where ho was a strong advocate 

 of the Initiative and referendum. 



One of his last public appearances 

 was In the chapel of the First Parish 

 Church In Quincy several years ago, 

 when he made an address on The 

 Laird Rams." Students of civil war 

 1 history came from many partB of the 

 country to hear this Intimate discussion 

 of the crisis which almost brought on 

 a third war between the United States 

 and Great Britain. Mr. Adams was able 

 to disclose many Intimate details of the 

 affair through knowledge gained from 

 his father, who was minister to Great 

 Britain at the time. 



