By: Anita Cohen, David Stringer, Jared Taylor
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. was the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the great-grandson of John Adams. He was very much a Massachusetts man, “a typical bred-in-the-bone Yankee,” as he called himself. On January 19, 1907, he gave a eulogy on the 100th anniversary of the birth of an American whom he considered a truly great man. He closed with these words: