Charles F. Adams (1857-1911) was born in Hill, New Hampshire, and died in Belfort, New York. In 1880 he married Henrietta "Etta" B. Adams (b. Morrill) in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and they settled in Hill. Adams began his career as a latch needle manufacturer. In the latter part of the 1880s, the family lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Adams became a practicing Christian Scientist. He advertised in the Manchester City Directory as a "Member of the Choate Metaphysical Asso., Boston," which was founded by Mary Baker Eddy's student Clara E. Choate. He wrote to Eddy twice in 1887 to order copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. By the early 1890s the Adamses had returned to Hill, and Adams went back into needlemaking. By 1900 they were living in Danbury, New Hampshire, where he listed his occupation as a capitalist, and by 1910, in Hill again, he had gone into the gold refining business as a mining property agent. Adams died in Belfort, a hamlet within the town of Croghan, New York, while on business there.

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