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Henry Adams (Louisville, KY, minister, educator, and organizer)

b. 1802 d. 1872-11-03

Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist minister, educator, and organizer. Franklin County, Georgia, native. Married to Margaret Adams. Father of Susan E. Adams, John G. Adams, Margaret A. Adams, Charlotte Adams, Joseph Adams, and Cyrus F. Adams. Ordained as a minister in 1825. Active in Georgia and South Carolina from 1825 to 1829. Pastor for the African American members of the First Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1829 to 1839. Pastor at the First African Baptist Church, subsequently known as the Fifth Street Baptist Church in Louisville from 1839 to 1872. Founded and operated a school for black children in Louisville from 1829 to 1872. Organized and moderated the State Convention of Colored Baptists from August 1865 to 1872.

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Race
Mulatto

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 380A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 432.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 9, p. 210A.
Find A Grave, "Henry Adams (1802-1872)," Memorial 46528599, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46528599 (accessed December 4, 2019).
Cornelius Bogert, "Adams, Henry" in John A. Hardin, Karen Cotton McDaniel and Gerald Smith, eds., The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 1.
Marion B. Lucas, A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891 (Frankfort: The Kentucky Historical Society, 1992), 123-126, 142, 211.

Citation

Adams, Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197203 (November 12, 2026).

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