Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. Born in Massachusetts in 1835. Son of Charles Francis Adams, supra. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. Writings: Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [infra], a Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston; Lee & Shepard, Boston; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.