Adams, Andrew J.

ADAMS, CRAVEN

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 14:16:33

ADAMS, Andrew J.
Farmer; Sec. 25; P. O. Kellogg; was born in Franklin Co., Ohio; February 18, 1837, and came to this county in 1867. Owns 160 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. His wife Hannah E. CRAVEN was born in Wayne Co., New York State in 1844, and they were married October 21, 1869; there [sic] children's names are Minnie Adelta, Clarence Elmer, Beldy Guy. Mr. ADAMS enlisted in Co. C, 2d W. V. I. Rgt., April, 1861, and served with the Army of the Potomac all through to the close of the war; was in thirty-six battles and twenty-two skirmishes, was wounded twice in the right leg; was promoted from private to Second Lieutenant in 52d Wisconsin regiment; afterward promoted to First Lieutenant, and mustered out as such on September 28, 1865. ~ "Mariposa Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)