Julia A. D. Adams (c.1831-1905) was born in New York and died in Palos Park, Illinois. She was a homeopathic physician who graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1871. In 1879, along with her husband, Joseph A. Adams, she purchased the Cottonwood Hot Springs resort near Buena Vista, Colorado. They operated this sanitarium until the mid-1880s when the Adams' moved to Oakland, California, and became interested in metaphysical healing. In 1886, Julia A. D. Adams studied with Mary Baker Eddy, completing both Primary and Normal classes in the same year. Afterwards she chartered the Oakland Christian Science Institute and was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal until 1889. At that point she left Oakland and moved to Illinois where she appears to have resumed her career as a homeopathic physician.

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