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    Quincy University (QU) is a private Franciscan university founded in 1860 in Quincy, Illinois. A small group of Franciscan friars left Germany in 1858...
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    gave its name to the Quincy Method, an influential approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker while he served as Quincy's superintendent of schools...
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    Party. John Quincy Adams II was born on September 22, 1833, in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of seven children born to Charles Francis Adams Sr. and...
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    John and Abigail Adams and John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, and the early years of the diary of Charles Francis Adams, who published a revised edition...
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    Charles Francis Adams III was born on August 2, 1866, in Quincy, Massachusetts, to Frances "Fanny" Cadwalader Crowninshield and John Quincy Adams II...
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    John Quincy Adams (/ˈkwɪnzi/ ; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the...
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  • of the sixth President John Quincy Adams and great-great-great-grandson of the second President John Adams. Charles Francis Adams IV was born on May 2...
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    Quincy (/ˈkwɪnsi/ KWIN-see) is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. The population...
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    Quincy Mansion was demolished in 1969. The names of President John Quincy Adams, several American towns, USS Quincy, Quincy House at Harvard, Quincy House...
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    Athenaeum from 1837 to 1852. In 1844, while traveling with Charles Francis Adams, Josiah Quincy met Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
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  • Quincy Adams, after him. Two days after his great-grandson's birth, Quincy died. The city of Quincy, Massachusetts, is named after him. John Quincy was...
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    Adams political family (category People from Quincy, Massachusetts)
    Harvard University. Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), 44th Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts. Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999),...
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    Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education...
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    Adams. Later, it was also the home of John Quincy Adams, his wife Louisa Catherine Adams, their son Charles Francis Adams, and Charles' sons, historians Henry...
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    President John Adams and a grandson of President John Quincy Adams. His father Charles Francis Adams Sr. was a lawyer, politician, diplomat, and writer...
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    John Adams II (category People from Quincy, Massachusetts)
    government functionary and businessman. The second son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, he is usually called John Adams II to distinguish...
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  • Charles Francis Adams may refer to: Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman, ambassador...
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    The John Quincy Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 141 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which the sixth United...
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  • Quincy Tyler Bernstine is an American actress and audiobook narrator. In 2019, she won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Bernstine...
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    Thomas Boylston Adams (judge) (category People from Quincy, Massachusetts)
    Abigail (Smith) Adams. He worked as a lawyer, a secretary to his brother John Quincy Adams while the latter served as United States ambassador to the Netherlands...
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    94,470 of whom approx. 11% are school age. The Quincy Public Schools first superintendent was Francis W. Parker. F. W. Parker Elementary School was named...
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    The presidency of John Quincy Adams, began on March 4, 1825, when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March...
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  • progressive approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker, then superintendent of schools in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, in 1875. Parker...
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    James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766) was the House of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701...
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    and John Quincy Adams (the 6th U.S. president). He was born in Troy, Vermont to Benjamin S. and Susan Smith (Pierce) Adams. He married Francis S. Smith...
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    Adams-Morgan, wife of Henry S. Morgan, daughter of Charles Francis Adams, and sponsor of the previous Quincy. She was commissioned at the U.S. Naval Drydock, South...
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    (September 24, 2012). "Quincy courthouse renamed for Francis Bellotti: Ex-attorney general honored for service". The Boston Globe. "Francis X. Bellotti : Executive...
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    Quincy Adams Shaw (February 8, 1825 – June 12, 1908) was a Boston Brahmin investor and business magnate who was the first president of Calumet and Hecla...
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    Massachusetts, the daughter of Josiah Quincy and Helen Francis Huntington Quincy. Her brother Josiah Quincy would serve as mayor of Boston. In 1899...
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    The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which Founding Father and second...
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