Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Adams, W. Y. February 4 1848 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    W. Y. ADAMS, one of the distinguished educators of the state of Alabama, was
born February 4, 1848, in Blount county. The family is of Scotch descent, the
grandfather, Jack Adams, having come to South Carolina in colonial times, and
brought up a family in Edgefield district, and his son, the father of W. Y.
Adams, came to Alabama at the age of twenty-three and was married in Blount
county in 1847. He was the father of seven children, named as follows: .W. Y.;
Jane, wife of Samuel Gregg; Joseph G.; P. M.; Belle, wife of Joseph Shandley;
Mary, wife of S. J. Cox, and J. H. The mother of these children died in about
1876. She was a daughter of Col. W. H. Musgrove., a distinguished citizen of
Georgia, a Baptist minister of ability and several times a member of the Alabama
state legislature. He commanded a company in the Confederate service and died of
a disease contracted in the time of duty in 1862. W. Y. Adams began life in
Walnut Grove, where he was educated in the common schools of the county, and
attended Howard college. Although not a graduate from this institution, it
conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and A. B. He has spent his life as a
teacher, and in 1883, was elected president of Walnut Grove college, and has
held that position continuously since. Under his administration the school has
been built up from an insignificant affair to an institution of the most
advanced courses, having seven teachers. In 1889 it was chartered. December 6,
1870, Mr. W. Y. Adams was married to Julia C. Price, by whom he had four
children: Noah E., William, A., E. M. S. and Lillie. Mr. Adams lost his wife, in
1881, and he married in 1883, Cenie Chamblee. She also died, and Mr. Adams
married Mary E. Penny, in 1884, by whom he had four children: Godfrey, Reuben,
Pearl and J. B., deceased. Mr. Adams is a local Baptist preacher, a master
Mason, an Odd Fellow, and in politics is a democrat.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1010-1011
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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