Samuel Hopkins Adams

Emerging from Dunkirk, New York, and educated at Hamilton College with a semester at Union College, he built a reputation as a muckraking journalist after early work at the New York Sun and McClure's Magazine. His 1905 series “The Great American Fraud” in Collier's exposed false claims of patent medicines and helped prompt the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, while later articles on deceptive adver… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources