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Samuel Hopkins Adams

Born

in Dunkirk, New York, The United States

January 26, 1871

Died

November 16, 1958

Genre

Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Children's Books

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From the book jacket of "Sunrise to Sunset", (c) 1950
At seventy-nine Samuel Hopkins Adams attributes his longevity, vigor and vim to neither smoking nor drinking, except when he feels like it. This is typical of the intelligent attitude toward the vagaries of life that has maintained him through the years in which he has authored more than forty books, written countless magazine articles and, as a crusading reporter, almost single-handedly accounted for the passage of the Federal Food and Drug laws which pave protected millions of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Adams' amazing knowledge of the history of upper New York State is the result of his lifelong interest in the region in which he was born. His home is Wide Waters, on the shore of Owasco, " ...more

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Samuel Hopkins Adams’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 1,428 ratings · 255 reviews · 143 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mystery 3.56 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1907 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Average Jones 3.41 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1911 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pony Express 3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1950 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Bus 4.03 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1933 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of Lonesome Cove 3.79 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1912 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	شکوه لحظه ها by Samuel Hopkins Adams, علی حسنی فرد (Translator), Ali Hassani Fard (Translator) 4.60 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canal Town 4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1944 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wanted: A Husband 3.58 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1917 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE SANTA FE TRAIL 3.73 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1951 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Erie Canal 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1953 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Oh, I wuh—wuh—wish I were duh—duh—dead!" mourned Miss Cole with violence. Gloria Greene dropped the typed sheets which she had been studying and rose from her chair. She looked down at the lumpy, lax figure of helpless, petulant rebellion before her. "Oh, you do, do you?" she remarked pensively. "Yes; I do!" "So do most people at one time or another," was Miss Greene's philosophical commentary upon this. "Not you," declared Darcy, glancing up at the vivid face above her resentfully. "I'll bet you've never known what it is to feel that way in your life." "Oh, I'm too busy for such nonsense," returned Gloria in her serene and caressing voice. Indeed,”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Wanted: A Husband / A Novel

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“the ceremony proceeded, its gross symbolism of sex worship, broad paganism, and underlying acceptance of women's slavery as a divine system, thinly cloaked in the severe beauty of the words; and Dee Fentriss was Mrs. T. Jameson James.”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Flaming Youth

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“As it is a professedly denominational school she has, of course, specialised or been specialised upon as a churchwoman. A very sound and correct churchwoman, but not much of a Godwoman.”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Flaming Youth

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