Julia A. D. Adams (c.1831-1905) was born in New York and died in Palos Park, Illinois. She was a medical doctor who graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871. She worked as a homeopathic physician and was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. After a marriage to William P. Dunning (1830-1866), she married Joseph A. Adams, a Congregational minister who had also been previously married, in Lorain, Ohio, in June 1875. In 1879, the Adams' purchased the Cottonwood Hot Springs resort near Buena Vista, Colorado. They operated this sanitarium until the mid-1880s when they moved to Oakland, California, and became interested in metaphysical healing. In 1886, Adams studied with Mary Baker Eddy, completing her Primary (August) and Normal (October) classes. She became a member of the Christian Scientist Association on October 6, 1886. Adams was a member of the National Christian Scientist Association and was elected President of the Students' Christian Scientist Association No. 23, Oakland, California, in the late 1880s. She helped charter the Oakland Christian Science Institute and was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as principal of the Institute from 1887-1889. Adams left Oakland soon after and moved to Illinois, where she appears to have resumed her career as a physician.

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