TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, .1927 | 



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| SERVICES FOR BROOKS ADAMS I 



Funeral of Author, Last of Four Grand- 

 sons of President John Quincy Adams, 

 Is Held in First Parish Church, Quincy 



Funeral services for Brooks Adams of 

 Boston, essayist and historian and the 

 last of the four grandsons of President 

 John Quincy Adams, were held this after- : 

 noon in the First Congregational Meet- 

 ing House (Unitarian), Quincy, the burial- I 

 place of his great-grandfather, President 

 John Adams, and his grandfather, John 

 Quincy Adams. 



The service was conducted by Rev. Fred 

 Alban Weil minister of the church, and 

 Rev. Howard Key Bartow, rector of Christ 

 Church (Kpiscopal), Quincy, to which 

 Mrs. Adams, who died a few weeks ago, 

 belonged. There were no honorary pail- 

 bearers and the ushers were the regular 

 usher 8 °* ChUrch ' Carl Homer, head 

 Mr Weil recited a prayer, followed 

 by The Lords Prayer and an or- 

 gan response. The second prayer was 

 by Mr. Bartow, and the Scripture renti- 

 ng by Mr. Weil. The congregation sang 

 J^^l , Klndly Li B ht '' The prayer by 

 Mr. -Weil preceding the benediction took 

 the place of a eulogy. Both at the be- 

 ginning and end of the service there were 

 Z^u ^} ccti ° nB by Francis Snow of 

 Trinity Church. 



Burial was in the family lot at Mt. 

 Wollaston cemetery, in the grave next 

 to that of Mrs. Adams, and also near 

 §5* of T 1,18 fatner . Charles Francis 

 Adams, Lincoln's minister to England 



