ADAMS, CHARLES FOLLEN , American humorous poet, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 21, 1842. He received a common school education. Early in the Civil War he entered the Union army and at Gettysburg was wounded and taken prisoner. In 1872 he began writing verses in German dia lect, chiefly humorous, for juvenile periodicals. Collections of his verse were published under the title Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1877) and Dialect Ballads (1887). His com plete poetical writings under the title Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems, with illustrations by "Boz," were published in 1910. He died in Boston, Mass., March 8, 1918.