John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Sixth president of the United States

Lived in a house which stood on this site

Here his son

Charles Francis Adams

Was born in 1807

Minister to Great Britain

During the Civil War 1861-5

Marker is on Boylston Street, on the right ...

John Anderson Ward Farmstead / John Quincy Adams Ward & Edgar Me

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John Anderson Ward Farmstead

John Anderson Ward had this Federal style house constructed from 1823-1825 on land inherited from his father, Urbana's founder Colonel William Ward. The Colonel's will stipulated that a local mason use 26,500 bricks to ...