Bio: Wallace H. Adams; Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: Jan. 1998



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===Adams, Wallace Holly, attorney-at-law, and 
member of the well known law firm of Modisette &Adams, Jennings, Jefferson Davis parish, La., 
was born at Minden, Webster Par., Louisiana., July 2,1880;  son of William Henry and Aurelia (Taylor) 
Adams, the former a native of Edgefieldcounty, S. C., and the latter of the state of Georgia, 
from which commonwealth she removed withher parents to Louisiana.  At the beginning of the Civil 
war, William Henry Adams, the father,then seventeen years old, enlisted as a member of the Albany
Hussars cavalry, C. S. A. Hiscommand was promptly ordered to the front, and in the course of his 
experiences he took part inthe Maryland and Pennsylvania raid and the battle of Gettysburg, and 
was twice wounded.  Heserved to the close of the war.  In 1871 he located in Webster Par., Louisiana.,
and there for a timeengaged in farming, but later became a contractor and builder at Minden.  
The Adams familycame originally from Ireland to the United States, locating in South Carolina, 
from which state theLouisiana branch of the family removed to Georgia.  William Henry Adams' 
mother, previous toher marriage was a Miss Wallace, and her family came from Scotland to South 
Carolina, fromwhich latter locality the paternal grandmother's branch of the family removed to 
Georgia.  Thematernal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Taylor, was a great-granddaughter of a Mr. Duffel, 
whoserved as a member of Gen. George Washington's personal bodyguard, and in that capacity was
present at the surrender of Gen. Cornwallis to Gen. Washington, at Yorktown.  Mr. Duffel personally 
told Mrs. Sarah Taylor of this, as well as imparting much other information regardinghis service 
under Washington, and Mrs. Taylor, in turn, furnished Wallace Holly Adams with thisinformation.  
The subject of this sketch was one of three children born to his parents, but theother two, a 
sister and a brother died in infancy.  His half-brother, Dr. M. Herbert Adams, asuccessful 
dentist, also lives in Jennings.  He attended the public schools of the locality in whichhe 
was born, and later Jeff Davis college, at Minden, La.  In 1899 he entered the Louisiana
Industrial institute, at Ruston, from which he graduated in 1902 with the degree of bachelor 
of industry.  During the succeeding 5 years he engaged in the fire insurance business at 
Jennings,employing his spare time in the study of law under the direction of J. H. Heinen and 
Charles R.Cline.  In Sept., 1907, he entered the law department of Louisiana State university, 
from which hegraduated with the degree of LL.B. in the class of 1909.  Immediately following the 
completion ofhis professional education he began the practice of law at Jennings, where he has 
since remainedand devoted his undivided attention to legal practice.  In June, 1913, he became 
associated with J.O. Modisette, under the firm name of Modisette & Adams, and this firm has 
remained unchangedto this time and is enjoying a most gratifying and rapidly-increasing practice,
 both members of thefirm having the fullest confidence of the people of the community and each 
being personally heldin high esteem throughout a wide of friends and acquaintances.  Mr. Adams 
has been affiliatedwith the Democratic party since beginning to exercise the elective franchise.  
He is a member ofthe Missionary Baptist church, and also the Free and Accepted Masons, 
Order of the Eastern Starand the Kappa Sigma fraternity.  At this time Mr. Adams is unmarried.
Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,
Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 20-21.  Edited by Alc