Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Adams, A. J. 1870 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley

   A. J. Adams, attorney at law, of Wichita, Kan., with offices at No. 410
Barnes building, is a native of Illinois, where he was born at Mason City, Mason
county, on December 6, 1870. His parents were Ambrose and Margaret J.
(Hilbourne) Adams, natives of Massachusetts and Ohio, respectively, who moved to
Illinois shortly after their marriage, and who came to Kansas in 1880 and
settled on a farm in Cowley county. The elder Adams died in 1881 at the age of
forty-nine. His widow is still living. A. J. Adams was educated in the public
schools and in the Southwestern (Kansas) College, from which he was graduated in
the class of 1896. He afterward took a course at the Wichita Commercial College,
read law, and was admitted to practice in the Sedgwiek county bar in 1901. Since
then he has continued the practice of law in the city of Wichita. He is a strong
worker politically in the Republican ranks. Fraternally he is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Betton Lodge, No. 583) and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)

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