Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Adams, Hon Phinehas June 20, 1814 - August 25, 1881
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Author: E O Jameson

   PHINEHAS ADAMS, son of Phinehas and Sarah W. (Barber) Adams, was born June 
20, 1814, in Medway.

   His father was a manufacturer, and started, in 1814, the first power-loom 
in this country, in Waltham, Mass. Mr. Adams learned his father's business. In 
1829, leaving school, he went to work in the Merrimack Mills, Lowell, Mass., 
where he soon held the position of an overseer. In December, 1833, Mr. Adams 
removed, and was an overseer in the mills of which his father was then the 
agent, in Hooksett, N. H. Subsequently he was an overseer in the mills in 
Pittsfield, N. H., and later he returned to Lowell, Mass., where he was for 
some time a clerk in the counting-room of the Merrimack Mills. In 1846 he left 
Lowell and became the agent of the Old Mills at Amoskeag Falls, N. H., and 
Nov. 6, 1847, he was appointed agent of the Stark Mills, Manchester, 
N. H. This position he held for more than twenty years. Mr. Adams was a 
director in several banking institutions in Manchester, also a director of the 
New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association. In 1872 he was elected a 
Presidential Elector for New Hampshire, and in 1872 and 1873 he was chief on 
the staff of Governor Straw, with the title of colonel. His only daughter 
married Daniel C. Gould, Esq., paymaster of the Stark Mills, Manchester, N. 
H., and his only son was Phinehas Adams, Jr., a partner in the cotton business 
of E. C. Bigelow, Esq., of Boston, Mass.
 

   " Mr. Adams was a man whose life was based upon the highest ideas of right 
and wrong. Kindly and affable, of remarkable generosity, he was highly 
respected by all his fellow-citizens, and his personal popularity would have 
insured his election to any office in their gift, if he could have been 
induced to accept it."    "His death was a great public loss."

   Vid. The History of Manchester, N. H.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records 
OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES 
IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.

Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

BY
E. O. JAMESON,

THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC.

MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

 Copyright, 1886.

E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.

All Rights Reserved.

 J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.

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