Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams was born on November 1, 1814 to Dr. Daniel Adams, M.D. and Nancy Mulliken Adams in Mont Vernon, NH.

Dr. Daniel Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar’s Arithmetic (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled Adam’s New Arithmetic, in 1827. Much later in 1848, he published another mathematics textbook entitled Primary Arithmetic. He compiled three reading textbooks during his life, The Understanding Reader (1803), The Agricultural Reader (1824), and The Monitorial Reader (1841). He also wrote a grammar textbook The Thorough Scholar, or the Nature of Language (1802), a geography textbook Geography, or a Description of the World (1814), and an accounting textbook Bookkeeping (1849).

In 1800, he married Nancy Mulliken (1789-1851) of Townsend, Massachusetts, daughter of Isaac Mulliken, a physician who served as a surgeon with the Continental Army in 1775.  In 1813, Daniel and Nancy moved to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire and would live there until 1845 when they retired to Keene, NH. 

These portraits were painted circa 1813.