ROBERT MCADAMS, JR.
Robert McAdams, Jr., a native of Scotland, was born in that county, July 14, 1847, and is a son of Robert and Jane (Campbell) McAdams, also natives of Scotland. Mr. McAdams, Sr., emigrated to America in the spring of 1869, and located in Montgomery county, New York, where he remained two years. He then went to Oneida county, after which he located at Rome, New York, where he is engaged largely in the manufacture of butter and cheese. He has made the business a study for life and probably has the largest factory in central New York. The subject of this sketch received a liberal education in his native country, emigrating to America in the spring of 1856. He first settled in Rensselaer County, N.Y., where he remained until 1875, when he went to Elgin, Illinois, where he took charge of a large butter and cheese business, he being a practical dairyman. In the spring of 1884, he came to Atlantic and purchased the Atlantic creamery. He was married in Buffalo, New York, to Alma J. Jackson, a native of that State. By this union there has been two children--Nellie M. and Ida J. Mr. McAdams is one of the directors of the Board of Trade at Des Moines, and a Republican in politics.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 878-879.
