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	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Later, Louisa Adams pondered whether her having learned to view the world and humanity with the clarity that she had was not a mistake since women were discouraged to involve themselves in larger and public issues that were the sole purview of men.
		Louisa Adams had her servants whisper that she was Napoleon's sister traveling incognito, and in perfect French stepped out of the carriage to rally the troops to salutes to Napoleon in her obviously perfect French.
		Secondly, Louisa Adams was also genuinely suffering from a variety of real and imagined physical ills, stemming partially from her menopause but also the fumes she inhaled from the coal-fired heat grates in the floor of her bedroom, where she spent much of her time in isolation and addicted to eating chocolate shells.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=6 (3870 words)

	The Massachusetts Historical Society \| The Adams Family Papers
		Adams' voluminous correspondence, both personal and public, can be found in the Adams Papers, along with the Diary that he kept for 68 years (from November 1779, when he was 12, to December 1847, just a few months before he died), and his many literary endeavors.
		LOUISA CATHERINE JOHNSON ADAMS, the wife of John Quincy Adams, was born in London on 12 February 1775, the second daughter of Joshua Johnson of Maryland and Catherine Nuth Johnson.
		Louisa hosted weekly receptions at their home on F Street when John Quincy Adams was secretary of state and presided as first lady at dinners and levees in the White House.
	www.masshist.org /adams/biographical.cfm (2624 words)

	Threshold of a Century: the Diary of Louisa Adams Park, 1800-1801
		Louisa could not assuage her fears of a breakdown in the government because she could not know that the first peaceful change of government was about to occur.
		Louisa yearned for a close companionate marriage in which she and her husband were responsible for each other's happiness and emotional support, even while the worlds of men's work and women's homes were diverging.
		Louisa Adams Park lived in that moment, standing at the threshold of the nineteenth century.
	www.janus.umd.edu /completed2002/Letitia/29.html (220 words)

	John Quincy Adams Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Adams and Monroe worked together in the greatest harmony and understanding, for they were in complete agreement on the basic objectives of American foreign policy.
		In 1824 Adams was involved in a bitter four-cornered presidential contest in which none of the candidates received a majority of the electoral votes.
		Adams suffered a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 21, 1848.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-quincy-adams (1755 words)

	The Sixth First Lady - Louisa Adams - History
		From 1781-1783, Louisa Johnson was educated at a Roman Catholic convent school in Nantes, France, where she became so immersed in the French language that she later had to relearn English.
		Louisa was a Catholic in France, an Anglican in England, and in 1837, she joined the Episcopal Church.
		When her husband lost his re-election bid, Louisa thought she would be retiring to their home in Massachusetts; however, that was not to be, for only two years later, her husband began serving what turned out to be 17 years in the House of Representatives.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art15870.asp (746 words)

	John Quincy Adams
		Adams spent a miserable and unproductive four years in office, 1825-1829, trying to work with an uncooperative Congress and continually under attack by Jackson and his other opponents as he attempted unsuccessfully to establish a national economic program.
		Adams was elected, and he retained the office for seventeen years, 1831-48, until his death.
		John and Abigail Adams were members of the First Parish Church of Quincy, part of the liberal wing of New England Congregationalism that became Unitarian as a result of the schism resulting from the Unitarian controversy.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnquincyadams.html (2422 words)

	American President
		While Louisa Adams threw the ball to impress congressmen, dignitaries, and the cream of Washington society, she also used it to solicit General Jackson's support for her husband's presidential bid.
		Depression for both John Quincy and Louisa was compounded by the apparent suicide of their eldest son, George, in April 1829, as he was lost from shipboard en route to Washington in response to his father's mandate after the youth's sexual involvement with an employee in his boardinghouse.
		Louisa gave much attention to John's widow and their two daughters, as well as to the family of the Adams's third son, Charles.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johnquincyadams/firstlady (1096 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775-1852) was born in London England.
		Louisa Adams was a devoted wife and mother.
		Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1821-1826 (courtesy of the White House Historical Association).
	eagle1.american.edu /~cm4218a/AdamsMemorial/louisaadams.html (158 words)

	History's Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet Louisa Adams proved herself to be an important partner in her husband’s legislative, diplomatic and political career, coping with such major events as the death of two of her children, and a frigid dangerous trek across war-torn Europe.
		The years in Russia were particularly difficult for Louisa since she spent the last months alone while John Quincy was in Ghent, enduring the isolation of a strange culture and harsh winter conditions as well as the birth and death of a small daughter.
		Louisa found some comfort in returning to Washington after 1830 when the former President was elected to the House of Representatives and they again established their residence in their old home.
	www.historyswomen.com /1stWomen/louisaadams.htm (2147 words)

	President John Quincy Adams History: Louisa Adams \| American President Sourcebook
		Louisa Adams was much beloved by her husband, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848; see entry in volume 1) for her intelligence, temperament, and sense of daring, but she was often the target of political gibes (sarcastic remarks) from his opponents because of her heritage: Her mother was British.
		He romanced Louisa for some time in England, where he was a diplomat, before revealing by letter to his family his intention to marry her.
		Adams, the son of America's first vice president, John Adams (1735-1826; see entry in volume 1) was already a well-known diplomat with several notable career achievements to his name.
	www.bookrags.com /history/president-john-quincy-adams/02.html (536 words)

	Louisa Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, was First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
		When John Quincy Adams was appointed James Monroe's U.S. Secretary of State the family moved to Washington D.C. in 1817 where Louisa's drawing room became a center for the diplomatic corps and other notables.
		Louisa thought she was retiring to Massachusetts permanently, but in 1831 her husband began seventeen years of service in the United States House of Representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisa_Adams (615 words)

	John Quincy Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At The Hague, Adams found himself at the principal listening post of a great cycle of European revolutions and wars, which he continued to report faithfully to his government both from the Netherlands and from his later post as minister to Berlin in 1797-1801.
		Adams' greatest diplomatic achievement as secretary of state was undoubtedly the Transcontinental Treaty with Spain, signed on February 22, 1819.
		Adams served as the sixth President of the United States from March 4, 1825, to March 4, 1829.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Quincy_Adams (3410 words)

	Biography of Louisa Adams
		At the Prussian court she displayed the style and grace of a diplomat's lady; the ways of a Yankee farm community seemed strange indeed in 1801 when she first reached the country of which she was a citizen.
		Louisa thought she was retiring to Massachusetts permanently, but in 1831 her husband began 17 years of notable service in the House of Representatives.
		He was fatally stricken at the Capitol the following year; she died in Washington in 1852, and today lies buried at his side in the family church at Quincy.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/la6.html (511 words)

	Presidential Avenue: John Quincy Adams
		The John Adams and John Quincy Adams Birthplaces are the oldest Presidential birthplaces in the United States.
		The Adams family's legacy of service to their Nation is reflected as much by the 78,000 artifacts inside the Old House as by its historic landscape.
		Both John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and their wives, were later interred in a crypt beneath the First Parish Church in the same town of Quincy, Massachusetts.
	www.presidentialavenue.com /jqa.cfm (1208 words)

	Reference - Louisa Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louisa Catherine Johnson was born in London to an England mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was United States Joshua Johnson, of Maryland and he served as United States consulate general in London after 1790.
		She left her two older sons in Massachusetts for education in 1809 when she took two-year-old Charles Francis Adams to Imperial Russia, where Adams served as Minister.
		Appointment of John Quincy as James Monroes U.S. Secretary of State brought the Adamses to Washington in 1817, and Louisas drawing room became a center for the diplomatic corps and other notables.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO3864/louisa-adams-reference.html (488 words)

	Threshold of a Century: the Diary of Louisa Adams Park, 1800-1801
		Louisa made plans to visit a married sister in Hingham, but had to postpone the trip.
		Louisa was at the mercy of the weather and of her familial duties.
		Louisa was not ready to leave her son for such a long time, but she considered it.
	www.janus.umd.edu /completed2002/Letitia/18.html (317 words)

	Abigail Adams
		Married to John Adams, she was an invaluable partner to him as he developed his political career, culminating in the presidency of the United States.
		Upset by criticism of her husband and herself in the Republican press for having appointed relatives to important posts, she wrote that "the Liberty of the press is become licentious beyond any former period." Although the president and the Congress hesitated to go to war, Congress passed the repressive Alien and Sedition Acts.
		Among the many biographies of Abigail Adams and her family are Janet Whitney, Abigail Adams (1947); Charles W. Akers, Abigail Adams, An American Woman (1980); Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams (1987); and Paul C. Nagel, The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters (1987).
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/abigailadams.html (1389 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Adams Women : Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters: Books: Paul C. Nagel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The lives of the Adams women, aristocrats of the spirit, were tested by priggish, boorish husbands, offspring and brothers who died of alcoholism and an era that would not acknowledge their quality.
		Like his John Quincy Adams, The Adams Women was informative and well-researched, if a bit pedantic in tone.
		Louisa Johnson, the wife of John Quincy Adams is also highlighted.
	www.amazon.ca /Adams-Women-Abigail-Sisters-Daughters/dp/0674004108 (1234 words)

	Amazon.com: "Louisa Adams": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nagel's Descent forn Glory: Four Generations of the Yohn Adams Family (New York, 1983) and The Adams 1frnen: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters (New York, 1987) offer what one scholar has described as the "Abigail -as-shrew" perspective.
		Louisa Adams, the wife of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and Elizabeth's close friend,...
		Louisa Adams, as she told the Presi- dent's wife, could see no reason why she should be "doomed to run after every...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Louisa-Adams (561 words)

	Louisa Adams, First Lady
		Louisa was born on February 12, 1775 in London, England.
		Louisa met John Quincy Adams in 1795 in London.
		John Quincy Adams died of a stroke on February 23, 1848.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/LAdams.html (116 words)

	Louisa Adams - History Celebrities
		Louisa Catherine Johnson was born in London, England to middle class English parents.
		Louisa accompanied her husband on most of his travels, and tried her best to deal with uncomfortable conditions as well as unfamiliar places.
		Their first child, George Washington Adams was born in Germany, their next two boys in Boston, and their last child, a daughter, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and who died in infancy.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1053.html (456 words)

	Exoticdogs.com:John Quincy Adams's Pet Info
		Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1767, he was home educated until the age of 10, when he went to Europe in 1767 with his father and learned French at a private school in Paris, and later studied at the University of Leiden.
		While on a mission to England, he married Louisa Catherine Johnson in 1797, a daughter of the American consul in London.
		John Quincy Adams has often been called the greatest U.S. secretary of state, but was not considered one of the greatest presidents.
	www.exoticdogs.com /presidents/display.php?p=6 (327 words)

	Abigail Smith Adams
		Abigail Adams was born in Weymouth, Mass., on Nov. 11, 1744, and died on Oct. 28, 1818.
		John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, sixth president.
		Abigail Adams was a prodigious letter writer, and her letters to her husband present a vivid picture of the time (many editions of her letters have been published). As First Lady, she was a skillful political hostess, although she offended some by her strong Federalist views.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/ADAMS3.HTM (396 words)

	Presidents and Their First Ladies, Dramatically Speaking: John Quincy and Louisa Adams - Palm Beach County Library ...
		Known as “Old Man Eloquent,” John Quincy Adams forged a long and distinguished diplomatic and political career before and after he served as the sixth president of the United States.
		The son of John Adams, the second president, he proved to be a dedicated public servant, fighting against slavery and defending the slaves of the Amistad Rebellion.
		The years John Quincy and Louisa spent together in the White House spring to life in a dramatic performance featuring the acclaimed acting and writing team of husband and wife, William and Sue Wills.
	www.pbclibrary.org /story-quincyadams.htm (282 words)

	The ADAMS Family of Martha's Vineyard (Banks Vol. III, pp. 1-3.)
		ELIASHIB ADAMS, (Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), the first of this name to reside on the island, was the son of Edward3 of Barnstable and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley of the same town, and was b.
		The genealogy of the Adams Family has been published (1898), and reference to it may be made for particulars of his ancestry.
		(Recent investigation by the compiler in England prove that Henry Adams, the emigrant ancestor, was a native of the parish of Barton St. David, Co. Somerset, and son of John Adams.
	history.vineyard.net /adams.htm (533 words)

	Louisa Adams Gravesite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mike's Notes: Louisa Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams, is currently the only US First Lady not born inside the United States.
		If Senator John Kerry had won the US presidential election on November 2, 2004, his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, would have become the second First Lady born on foreign soil, as she was born in Mozambique.
		In the second picture above, Louisa's grave is the one at the far end of the crypt.
	www.thecemeteryproject.com /Graves/adams-louisa.htm (88 words)

	Calvin_Kyle_Bobbitt's Adams Genealogy Page!
		Richard Adams, of Abridge, Essex Co., England, citizen and merchant tailor, of London, executed a deed of trust, Sept. 23, 1718, for the use of his wife and children; made will Oct. 7, 1719; administration granted to his widow in 1720; m.
		June 23, 1825; was a prominent physician and citizen of Richmond; a staunch and liberal supporter of the Episcopal Church; member of the House of Delegates, 1803 and 1804; Mayor of Richmond; he erected and occupied the house on Church Hill, known as the Van Lew residence; was a Vestryman of St. John’s Parish; m.
		Married on Feb. 7, 1798, Elizabeth Grigg of Bedford Co., daughter of Burwell Grigg of Greenville Co., VA. The Grigg family were Quakers, their name is frequently found among the records of the Old South Fork Meeting House.
	calvin_kyle_bobbitt.tripod.com /Surnames/Adams.html (1366 words)

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