Samuel Hopkins Adams

Overview:

• Legal Name: Adams, Samuel Hopkins
• Place of Birth: USA
• Date of Birth: 1871
• Date of Death: 1958

Notes:

Graduated from Hamilton College in 1891, and then worked at the New York Sun until 1900. Worked at McClure's Magazine from 1901 through 1905. His The Great American Fraud, which expanded on his magazine articles exposing fradulent patent medicines, help the passage of the Pure Fodd and Drug Act of 1906. In 1915, he began a similar persuit of advertising practices in the New York Tribune.

Resources:

• Wikipedia article on Samuel Hopkins Adams