Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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BYRON C. ADAMS

Byron C. ADAMS came to Harrison county July 15, 1854, in company with his father, James M. Adams, Willard and William Kinyon, Elisha Palmer, and a man named Bassett. He is at the present time engaged in the meat market business at Logan. Upon coming to this country his father located land on section 31, township 79, range 42, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, to which was afterwards added forty acres. In 1858 our subject took land on section 5, in what is now known as Jefferson Township. This was a quarter section, to which he also added.

Mr. Adams was born August 6, 1835, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His father was James M. and his mother Hannah E. Adams. The father was born in Berkshire County, Mass., in 1806, and the mother July 12, 1808, in the state of New York. The father of James M. Adams was James Adams, born in Berkshire County, Mass., and died in Ohio, March, 1822. His wife Mary was a native of Massachusetts, and died in Wisconsin, in April, 1853. The father of our subject was a farmer all his days.

Our subject attended the schools common to the Buckeye State, to which country his parents had removed before our subject was born. The father left Ohio for Knox County, Ill., in 1844, and there remained until the following year, and then moved to Hancock County, that State, and there bought a farm, remained one year, and then removed to Walworth County, Wis., and purchased a farm two miles west of Burlington, where they remained until coming to Harrison County in 1854.

Byron C. was married in Crawford County, Iowa, October 13, 1859, to Almira P. Carrico, a native of Adams County, Ill. By this union five children have been born-Effie, born February 20, 1861; Winslow M., January 2, 1863;Frank C., January 24, 1866; Mary, December 20, 1867; and Arthur, May 14, 1870. At the time our subject came to Harrison County there were only one hundred and five votes polled; and he relates how they erected a double log house 16x30 feet, and that the family of five boys had great sport at hunting the wild game then so plentiful in this county, at which time the Indians were still lingering in little squads here and there.

During the war our subject was made Deputy Provost Marshall and enrolling officer for Harrison and Shelby Counties, and made an excellent official.

Politically, Mr. Adams is identified with the Republican party.

Great has been the transformation since the Adams family first gazed out upon the undeveloped, but even then magnificent valleys for which Harrison County has ever been noted.

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