Toombs-Stewart County GaArchives Biographies.....Adams, Charles E. 1842 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 716-717

   CHARLES E. ADAMS, general manager of the Vidalia Ice & Coal Company, Vidalia,
Georgia, is a native of this state. He is a son of James Phillip Adams and wife,
Ella (Thornley) Adams, and was born on his father's farm in Stewart county, one
of a family of six children. In the common schools of his native county he
received his early education, and at the age of thirteen years he went to
Columbus, where he finished his schooling. His first business enterprise was at
Charles, where for about twelve years he was engaged in merchandising. He came
from there to Vidalia in 1909, and that year he and Mr. J. C. May, the furniture
dealer of this place, organized the Vidalia Ice & Coal Company, of which Mr.
Adams has since been general manager. Their ice plant has a capacity of ten to
twelve tons per day, and the demand for ice product is such that it is the
intention of the company to increase the capacity the coming year, Vidalia being
a vantage point for this business, since a large quantity of ice is required for
the refrigerator cars used in handling the fruit shipments to the north.
Contrasting with the hard city water, the supply of their plant is soft and is
especially adapted for boiler use and is in demand by the railroads. The company
has a six-year water contract with the different railway lines of the city.
Another feature of the business is the handling of coal, lime, cement and other
building materials.

   August 9, 1911, Mr. Adams took to himself a wife, wedding Miss Kate Brown,
daughter of Mrs. Alice Brown, a native of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are
members of the Baptist church, and, fraternally, Mr. Adams is identified with
the Knights of Pythias. Both his father and grandfather served in the
Confederate army during the late war, and fought bravely for their loved
Southland.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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