Hon. S. P. Adams

ADAMS, STETSON, TAYLOR

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/18/2015 at 21:00:46

HON. S.P. ADAMS, attorney and counselor at law, corner Main and Sixth streets, Dubuque. Is a native of Medfield, Norfolk, Mass; Feb. 5, 1817, only 2 years of age, his parents removed to Maine, where he remained ten years; in 1835, when 18 years of age, he went to Waltham, Mass., to learn the machinist's trade, at which he worked, with the exception of about two years spent at school and in the study of medicine, until 1842, when he went to Lowell, Mass.; there he worked at his trade and studied medicine, and later, attended medical lectures in Boston, Brunswick, ____ and Pittsfield, Mass., graduating at the last-named place in 1845; having turned his attention from the medical profession, he began the study of law in Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex Co. in 1849. Mr. Adams represented Lowell in the State Legislature in 1845, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and of the Legislature in 1857; in the early part of the year, he resigned the office of Representative and came west to Iowa and located in Dubuque, and continued the practice of law until he was appointed Provost Marshal for the Third Congressional District of the State with rank of captain of cavalry; he held this position until the close of the war; in 1866, he was appointed on a commission to lay out a reservation for a band of Chippewa Indians, 215 miles south of St. Paul, Minn.; since that time, he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Dubuque; during the last six years as attorney of the Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota and Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Railroads. Mr. Adams has been twice married; in 1844, to Miss L.E. Stetson, of Scituate, Mass., and in 1853, to Miss D.R. Taylor, of Lowell, Mass.

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