ADAMS, CHARLES KENDALL American educator and historian, was born in Derby, Vt., on Jan. 24, He graduated in 1861 at the University of Michigan, where he was instructor of history in 1862, assistant professor of history in 1863-67 and professor of history in 1868-85. From 1885 to 1892 he was president of Cornell university, succeeding A. D. White (q.v.), and from 1892 to 1902 he was president of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. He edited Representative British Orations (1884). His published works include Democracy and Monarchy in France (1874) and Christopher Columbus (1892). He died in Redlands, Calif., on July 26, 1902.