Parke County IN Archives Biographies.....Adams, Harvey 1825 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1893)

HARVEY ADAMS. The vast agricultural resources of the United States enable
thousands of men to gain a maintenance and secure a competence by tilling the
soil. Parke County is not without her share of these enterprising workers, and
among those in Adams Township who own and occupy excellent estates is the
gentleman aboved [sic] named, who is numbered among the successful men of the
county. His property is well improved, and the owner not only raises the cereals
for which this State is so well adapted, but also devotes considerable attention
to the various domestic animals, breeding them in considerable numbers.

  The father of our subject, Philip Adams, was born in Virginia, where he was
reared to manhood. His father came from England to America in an early day, and
Philip, when a young man, went to Ohio, prior to the War of 1812, in which he
took an active part. He settled in Ross County, near Chillicothe, and engaged in
farming and stock-raising. He there married a Miss Bird, and to them were born
three children. A sad occurrence happened in the death of his wife, and some
time after he married Mary L. Chestnut, a daughter of Daniel Chestnut, who was
of Irish descent. Mrs. Adams was born and reared in Ross County, Ohio, and by
her union with Mr. Adams became the mother of four children, our subject being
the first-born. Those living are our subject, and David, who is a physician in
Edinburgh, Ind. The deceased are James, who died in Gentry County, Mo., and
Marion, who was a lawyer. In 1830 Philip Adams moved to Indiana and located
within seven miles of Terre Haute, where he pursued farming four years, at the
end of which time he moved to the place where he now lives. This farm consists
of eighty acres, fifteen acres of which were cleared at the time of purchase.
From time to time he added to his possessions, until at his death he owned two
hundred and forty acres of land in this vicinity. In politics he was a Whig. He
died June 14, 1845, his wife following him to the life beyond eighteen years later.

  Our subject was born in Ross County. Ohio. July 6, 1825, and was about six
years old when his father moved from Ohio to this county. He was educated in the
old log schoolhouse, where he pursued his studies with energy, and he added to
the knowledge gained therefrom by attendance for two winters in the Rockville
school. When a lad he used to walk three miles to and from school each day, thus
demonstrating his determination of being a man of a noble character, and
although not ambitious, as the world knows ambition, yet he was untiring in his
devotion to his school work. Like a good son he remained with his father,
assisting him in performing the duties of farm life to the best of his ability,
and after the decease of that parent still continued on the farm until his
marriage, which occurred August 22, 1849. The lady of his choice was Miss Eliza
A. Carothers, a daughter of John Carothers, who was formerly a farmer of
Vermilion County, Ill. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Adams located on the
farm where they now live happily together. A family of eight children blessed
their union. They are: John W., who is living near Montezuma; Mary A., who was
the wife of Josephus Ott, but died February 28, 1891; Joseph, who is a dealer in
machinery in Indianapolis; Emma, the wife of S. C. Trueblood, who is engaged in
the poultry business at Indianapolis; Albert M., of Rockville; Lucy O., who
married Albert Overman, a prominent clothier of Rockville; Lewis E., a farmer in
this neighborhood; and Anna L., who died at the age of fifteen years.

  Our subject has in his possession twenty-three hundred acres of land in Parke
County, all of which is in Washington, Adams and Jackson Townships. He rents a
greater part of this land, and is himself chiefly engaged in general farming and
stock-raising. On his farm he has erected a beautiful home and commodious barn,
and he is the third largest land-owner in Parke County, one of the oldest
settlers now living in Adams Township, and one of the most well-to-do citizens
therein. The major part of his property he has accumulated by his indomitable
will, as his father was enabled to give him only $300 when he started in his
life pursuit. He has amassed a fortune, and has always been a cheerful giver, an
earnest worker for his fellows, and now enjoys the reward of his good works by
securing the confidence of his fellow-citizens. In his political relations our
subject is a true-blue Republican, and takes an active part in all local
affairs, although never an aspirant for office.


Additional Comments:
Memorial and Biographical Record of
Montgomery, Parke and Fountain Counties

INDIANA

CONTAINING

Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS OF ALL THE 
Presidents of the United States.

CHICAGO
CHAPMAN BROS.
1893


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