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History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois.
"CENTENNIAL RECORD"
by John Carroll Power
Assisted by his wife, Mrs. S. A. Power
Under the Auspices of the Old Settlers Society
Springfield, ILL:  Edwin A. Wilson & Co. - 1876
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   ADAMS, JAMES, was born Jan. 24, 1783, in Hartford, Conn.  Harriett
Denton was born Jan. 31, 1787, in Hartford, also.  They were there married
about 1809, and moved to Oswego, N.Y., where they had five children.  They
moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1821, soon after
the place was declared to be the county seat of Sangamon county.  Of their
four living children,

   LOVENIA E., born May 3, 1813, at Oswego, N.Y., married, in Springfield,
to Peter Weber. (see his name)  They both died in the north part of the
State.  She died Sept. 5, 1838.

   CHARLOTTE B., born May 2, 1815, in Oswego, N.Y., and died Jan. 10, 1832.

   LUCIAN B., born Dec. 10, 1816, in Oswego, N.Y.; married in Springfield,
March 14, 1847, to Margery A. Reed, who was born July 9, 1824, in Williams-
port, Penn.  They have four children.  James L., born Jan. 22, 1848, in
Springfield, graduated in a commercial college in Chicago, and is employed
in a railroad office in Vallejo, California.  Eldora J., Enola A., and
Harriet L., reside with their parents in Springfield.  Lucian B. Adams
studied law and obtained license to practice in 1840.  For twenty years he
discharged the duties of a justice of the peace, and the greater part of
that time acted as police magistrate, U. S. commissioner and notary public.
He is now U. S. commissioner.

   VIENNA M., born July 10, 1818, in Oswego, N.Y.; married in Sprinfield,
to Charles G. McGraw.  (see his name)

   James Adams was a lawyer, and engaged in practice when he came to
Springfield, in 1821.  He was elected justice of the peace in 1823 or '4
and was elected successively for many years.  He took part in the Winne-
bago and Black Hawk Indian wars of 1827, and 1831 and '2.  He was elected
Probate Judge of Sangamon county, and died in office, August 11, 1843.  His
widow, Mrs. Harriet Adams, died August 21, 1844, both in Springfield.

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