The Adams Families of Lyon County, Minnesota

S. H. ADAMS (1873). When S. H. Adams came to Marshall in 1873 he reports that there were only eleven houses in the town. He has seen 'the village grow from those proportions into the city of today, having lived in the village ever since, with the exception of a few years. During nearly all this time he has been engaged in the tinning business, and he is now the senior member of the firm of S. H. Adams & Son, plumbers, steamfitters and sheet metal workers.

Mr. Adams was the only son of Harrison S. and Betsey T. (Ladd) Adams and he was born at Cambridge, New York, on September 1, 1853. His father, a native of Connecticut, came to Lyon county in 1873 and died in November, 1903, at the age of seventy years. His mother was born in New

Hampshire and died in Marshall May 1,

Ai the age of four years S. H. Adams accompanied his parents from Cambridge, New York, to Rutland, Vermont, and a little later to Springfield. Vermont, where the family resided until he was thirteen years of age. Then the family home was made in Trempealeau, Wisconsin. In that place young Adams attended school and grew to manhood. He came to Marshall in September. 1873, and the day following his arrival began work in the hardware store of J. P. Watson and there learned the tinner's trade. He worked for Mr. Watson ten years and for R. M. Addison eight years and then moved to Cottonwood and went into business with Thomas McKinley.

Eight years later Mr. Adams returned to Marshall and for the next five years was again employed by J. P. Watson. He then moved to Provo, Utah, where he remained four years.. Returning to Marshall in April. 1909, he formed the company known as S. H. Adams & Son with his son, Lloyd E., as partner.

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FRANK A. ADAMS (1877) has lived in Eidsvold township since he was a boy fifteen years of age. He was born in Oneida county, New York, January 14, 1862. At the age of four years he was taken with the family to Plainview, Minnesota, and three years later to Redwood Falls. A little later the family located in New Ulm and there Frank attended school, his instructor being M. E. Mathews, the Marshall attorney. In 1874 the family moved to St. Paul and in that city young Adams continued his education.

He accompanied his parents to Lyon county in June, 1877, his father taking as a homestead claim the west half of the southwest quarter of section 4, Eidsvold township. On that place our subject has ever since resided. His father left the farm in 1883 and since that time Frank has owned and farmer the old homestead. He has since purchased an additional quarter section and farms all his land. He feeds hogs and cattle quite extensively. Part of the old claim shanty erected by the father in 1877 still stands on the homestead, a reminder of pioneer days. In 1908 Mr. Adams erected a fine two-story, ten-room house and he has one of the fine homes of the vicinity. Mr. Adams has served as a director of school district No. 43.

Mr. Adams descends from old New England stock, his ancestors having settled in the colonies prior to the Revolutionary War. His father, Francis R. Adams, was born in Massachusetts and is now a resident of St. Paul. Frances Louisa (Winchell) Adams, the mother of our subject, was born in New York State and died in St. Paul about 1892. There were seven children in the family, of whom the following five are living: Frank

A., of this biography; TIattie Munsell, of Redwood Falls; William, a conductor of the Northern Pacific, residing in St. Paul; Nell Voight, of St. Paul; and Charles, a dining car conductor on the Northern Pacific, residing in St. Paul.

Charlotte L. Conger became the wife of Mr. Adams on July 1, 1883, the ceremony being performed in Marshall. Mrs. Adams was born in Durand, Wisconsin, and is a daughter of Samuel Conger, who settled in Lyon county in 1880. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams, as follows: Francis, Clara (Mrs. Ray Dillon), of South Dakota; Harry, William, Ralph, Stella, Roy and Kate.

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HOWARD ADAMS (1903), proprietor of the Hotel Atlantic barber shop, came to Marshall July 20, 1903, from Luverne, Minnesota, where he learned his trade in the barber shops of F. A. Larkin and Eugene Barck. He worked at his trade in Marshall before buying C. W. Eckes' shop in September, 1906. Mr. Adams conducts a well appointed, three-chair tonsorial parlor and enjoys a liberal patronage.

Our subject was born in Oxford Mills, Iowa, September 25, 1881. At the age of eleven years he moved with the family to Luverne and there learned his trade in the local shops. July 1, 1908, occurred the marriage of Howard Adams and Louisa Oestreich at Worthington, Minnesota. She is a native of Iowa. Mr. Adams is prominent in local fraternal orders, being a member of the Elks, Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors and Yeomen lodges.

Howard Adams is one of nine children born to S. J. Adams and Anna L. (Brinn) Adams, natives of Pennsylvania and Missouri, respectively. The other children are Ida, Nora, Myrlti, Bud D., Vera, Glenn and Inez. One daughter, Gertrude, is deceased.

As printed in the source¹. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.