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QUINCY − President John Adams' 288th birthday will be celebrated at noon Monday, Oct. 30, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center. Cmdr. Mathew Miller ...

John Adams, in the final months of his administration, became the first American president to live in the new executive mansion, later dubbed the White House, on Nov. 1, 1800.

Adams wrote to neighbor Ellen Maria Brackett on Dec. 14, 1824. Hulton Archive. The autographed letter from the Founding Father and former president is clearly its most valuable artifact.

Former President John Quincy Adams, “Old Man Eloquent,” fatally stricken at his desk in the House in 1848. (loc.gov) Adams, like his father, refused to attend the swearing in of his successor.

Back then, the elder Adams, who died at 90, was buried before his son John Quincy Adams — then president — even knew about his death. How that happened is primarily a story of technology.

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.