Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives
George F. Adams, D. D. – Early Maryland Baptist Minister
PART ONE of TWO

Dr. Adams has been referred to frequently in these pages, both as a missionary and pastor of several Churches. We think it is necessary to add at this place, a few items concerning his long and useful life. We say useful advisedly, for he was one of those plain, honest, conscientious workers for the welfare of mankind whom God honors by making useful in the highest sense. His labors as an educator and his long service as a minister of Christ have made an abiding mark on the character of all who knew him. He left a memory without a single stain, as a “faithful servant of the Lord.”

George F. Adams was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1802. Removed to Ohio at at early age, he was converted and baptized in 1812. At twenty, he was licensed to preach, and entered Columbian College in1824, to prepare himself for the ministry. In 1829, he was principal of the College school and pastor of the incipient body which formed the E Street Church, with which he had been ordained in 1837. Thirty years later, the Columbian University honored its former principal with the title that heads this chapter.

Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from: History of Baptist Churches in Maryland Connected with the Maryland Baptist Union Association, 1885, pp. 217-218