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Cyrus Cornelius Adams was born on January 7, 1849 in Naperville, Illinois, United States, the son of Cyrus and Cornelia (Stevens) Adams, but was brought up by his aunt and uncle in Bloomington, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, then still practically on the frontier.
Adams was able through his uncle's assistance and his own earnings to attend the University of Minnesota, then just chartered, and later the University of Chicago, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1876.
Adams entered the staff of the Chicago Inter Ocean, while still a student and continued there after his graduation. About 1880 he joined the New York Sun, a connection which remained unbroken until 1903.
Through these years of journalistic activity, geography was his favorite subject, and he so won his associates' respect for it that toward the end of the period he was devoting himself exclusively to editorials and special articles on geographical matters.
In 1902 began his connection with the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. He became assistant editor in 1905 and editor in 1908, a position that he held until his retirement in 1915 upon the transformation of the journal into the Geographical Review. Supplementing his main activity, he carried out a number of undertakings designed to advance the educational side of geography.
In 1891-1892 he edited the first thirteen issues of Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine, a monthly journal published in New York from January 1891 to July 1895 and numbering among its contributors such men as William M. Davis, Ralph S. Tarr, and Ralph DeC. Ward. During its brief existence it was the only journal in the United States that stressed educational geography.
In 1890-1891 he organized an exhibition of geographical publications and apparatus numbering about 2, 500 items from European publishers and United States government bureaus and state surveys. It consisted of maps, atlases, relief models, globes, telluria, textbooks, works of reference, and books of travel. The exhibition was held under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and attracted some 37, 000 visitors in Brooklyn; it was also displayed in Boston and New York.
In 1908 he organized, under the auspices of the American Geographical Society, an exhibit of foreign map material, mainly school atlases and wall maps, that was subsequently lent to many universities and schools throughout the country and exercised considerable influence in calling attention to the undeveloped possibilities in these fields.
In 1901 he published A Text-Book of Commercial Geography, which ran through several editions; a shorter version was published in 1902 under the title An Elementary Commercial Geography. It dealt not in generalities but in facts and in its day was the standard textbook on the subject. Later commercial or economic geography developed around the principles it set forth.
Adams was a contemporary of what may be termed the heroic age of African exploration, and the fascination of the gradual unveiling of the interior of the Dark Continent cast its spell over him. His close attention to it and his wide reading gave him an authoritative mastery of the subject. Realizing that the geographical periodicals published in German, and especially Petermanns Mitteilungen, were indispensable sources of information, he acquired a thorough reading knowledge of that language. His intimate understanding of African conditions resulted in a long and close acquaintanceship with Henry M. Stanley and he published "David Livingstone, 1813-1873: African Development" in Beacon Lights of History, vol. XIV (1902) and "Foundations of Economic Progress in Tropical Africa, " Journal of Race Development, July 1911.
His interest in exploration also included the events that were taking place in the Arctic region. Mastery of the subject again led to long and intimate friendship with the chief of American Arctic explorers. On more than one occasion he was the spokesman for Robert E. Peary in making his plans known to the world and in publishing the results of his expeditions, especially of his crossing of the northern end of the Greenland ice cap, the only professional account of which is that by Adams in the London Geographical Journal for October 1893. Mount Adams, on the southern side of Inglefield Gulf (77 38'N. and 67 15'W. ), is an evidence of Peary's friendship.
He died in his eightieth year at his home in New York City.
Adams is distinguished for the contribution he made to the establishment of the modern science of geography in the United States. He exercised a broadening influence on the concept of the content of physical geography and especially the genetic explanation of landforms. This he did through the wide range of the topics he discussed in his writings and included in the journals he edited.
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Adams was of distinguished appearance. In his sixties he had a ruddy complexion, a full head of white hair, and a close-cropped white mustache. In character he was gentle and kindly. The pressure of thirty years of newspaper work had left its trace, noticeable in a shaky, although legible, handwriting.
On August 17, 1877, Adams married Mrs. Blanche C. Dodge, by whom he had a son, Ernest, and daughter, Jessica.
