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<p> D.D., [[President]] of [[Charleston]] College, S. C., was born at Medway, Mass. Aug. 27, 1793, graduated at [[Brown]] University in 1815, and studied theology at Andover. In 1819 he was made professor of mathematics at Brown University, and was ordained a minister of the [[Protestant]] Episcopal Church in the same year. In 1824 he became President of Charleston College, but in 1826 he removed to the charge of [[Geneva]] College, in New York. In 1828 he returned to Charleston, and managed the institution till 1836, when he left it in a highly prosperous state. After preparing and publishing a system of [[Moral]] [[Philosophy]] (New York, 1838, 8vo), he was for two years chaplain at the West [[Point]] Academy, and then removed to Pendleton, S. C., where he died, Oct. 25, 1841. Besides the "Moral Philosophy," he published a number of occasional sermons and addresses. Sprague, Annals, 5, 641. </p>

<ref name="term_17697"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/adams,+jasper Jasper Adams from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>