Ann Adams appears to have been a Wesleyan Protestant living in Montreal, who at some point was employed sewing and may have lived in Saint Charles. She had at least two children.
Educated as an architect and architectural historian at UC Berkeley, Adams is jointly appointed in McGill University’s School of Architecture and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (U Minn Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (UTP, 2000). Recent awards include the Faculty of Engineering’s Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (2016) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Media (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
In 1975, he became a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil Engineering. He served as Chair of the Environmental Engineering Program in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and then as Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering until 2004. He has consulted in Canada and abroad on water resources and environmental engineering studies with engineering and legal firms, agencies, commissions, municipalities, and the Crown. He was a member of the Province of Ontario’s Environmental Appeal Board and the Environmental Assessment Board and is currently a member of the Advisory Board, Research in Construction at the National Research Council of Canada. Barry has published over 90 papers, books, and book chapters and 45 technical reports in the field of water resources and urban infrastructure. He has conducted innovative research in the development of probabilistic models for urban water resource infrastructure system planning and design and wrote the first major textbook on this subject. Adams is a Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto.
Charles Francis Adams was an American zoological collector and taxidermist.
Charles Francis Adams Jr. was born on May 27, 1835, in Boston, Massachusetts, into a family with a long legacy in American public life (Father Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807-1886).
He was an American author, historian, railroad and park commissioner, and philanthropist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1856 and then studied law in the office of Richard Henry Dana Jr. and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1895, he received an LL.D. degree from Harvard University. Adams served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Colonel Adams for the award of the rank of brevet (honorary) brigadier general, United States Volunteers. He served as the president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1871 and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1891. After 1874, he devoted much of his time to the study of American history and became vice president of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1890 and its president in 1895. He was also elected President of the American Historical Association in 1901. From 1893 to 1895, Adams was chairman of the Massachusetts Park Commission.
In 1865, he married Mary Hone Ogden (1843-1935). He died on March 20, 1915, in Washington, D.C.
Charles Kendall Adams was born on January 24, 1835, in Derby, Vermont.
He was an American educator and historian. He had only an elementary school education until he was 21 years old. He worked his way through the University of Michigan, where he studied with Andrew Dickson White. He taught history at the University of Michigan until his appointment in 1885 as president of Cornell University. As a result of major conflicts over honourary degrees and control of faculty appointments, Adams was forced to resign as Cornell president in 1892. He subsequently became president of the University of Wisconsin, a position he held until his death in 1902. In 1887, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1890, he became president of the American Historical Association.
In 1863, he married Abigail Disbrow. He died on July 26, 1902, in Redlands, California.
