Genesee-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Adams, Albert L. 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

ALBERT L. ADAMS is the editor of the Mt. Morris Enterprise, a bright and spicy
sheet whose mission fully realizes the name which it bears. It is the organ for
the agricultural element in which the district is richest and also has the
latest and best resume of the news of the day. Mr. Adams was born in Seneca
County, N. Y. in the township of Ovid, March 16, 1844. He is the son of Lewis S.
Adams, who was born and reared in the same place and became a carpenter and
joiner. The father came to Michigan in 1851-52, and settled in Lyons Township,
Oakland County, where he located a good farm and there remained about sixteen
years. For some time he was known as the genial host of the hotel on the Grand
River road. After a stay of four years at that place he came to Mt. Morris in
1866, and located in the village where he still resides. Our subject's mother
was in her maiden days Miss Rhoda A. Lay, a native of New York. She died when
about forty-six years of age. They were the parents of two children, a son and a
daughter. The elder, Cordelia, now resides in Mt. Morris, as does our subject.

  Mr. Adams was about six years old when his parents brought him to Michigan and
at the age of fourteen years he ran away from home and went to New York State,
where he learned the printer's trade and was engaged on the Seneca County
Sentinel, also in the Ovid Bee office. He then came back to Oakland County and
worked for a short time in Saginaw County and for several years was variously
engaged in farm and carpenter work. About 1866 fate led his footsteps to Mt.
Morris, where he was for a period engaged in house and carriage painting, which
business he followed until 1882, Then he took up photography and spent one year
with Mr. White in the undertaking business. In 1888 he assumed charge of the
printing establishment known as the Enterprise office, running it one year for
Mrs. E. F. Lamb.

  At the end of the time above specified our subject bought out the business and
has continued to run it most satifactorily ever since. January 1, 1865, he
entered into the domestic relations, his bride being Miss Anna Ward. She was an
orphan, born of English parents. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are the parents of three
daughters, who are Flora, Maude and Vilanche. The eldest is the wife of William
Holtslander and resides in Genesee Township; Maude assists her father in the
office.

  In connection with his editorial work Mr. Adams is also interested in the
insurance business, acting as agent for the North American Insurance Company. He
also does job printing. The sheet which he edits is neutral in politics.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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