Bio of ADAMS, John C., M.D. (b.1831) Wabasha Co., MN
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Adams, John C., M.D., (page 1155), Lake City, is a native of Ireland, and 
was born in Iniskillen, in 1831, and is a son of John Adams, who for many 
years was a prominent merchant of that city. Early in the spring of 1841, 
Mr. Adams with his family emigrated to the United States, and settled on a 
farm in Kentucky, and for a time engaged in agricultural pursuits. Being 
unacquainted with, and having a dislike for, the principles of slave 
labor, he failed to make it a success, sold his farm and removed to 
Clarksville, Tennessee, where he again embarked in mercantile pursuits. He 
died in 1850, and his wife, whose maiden name was Alice McCalon, is still 
living in Russellville, Kentucky. Dr. Adams received an academic education 
at Clarksville, Tennessee, pursued and completed the classics under a 
private tutor, and began his professional course with Dr. Williams, of 
Todd County, Kentucky. He attended lectures at the medical department of 
the university at Louisville, Kentucky, in its palmy days, when the 
eminent S. D. Gross and Austin Flint were its professors. After practicing 
in Kentucky, Texas and Louisiana, he finally graduated from the medical 
department of the Louisiana University. He then resumed the practice of 
medicine in Cado Parish, near Shrevesport, Louisiana, and continued the 
practice, though somewhat obstructed by failing health, till the outbreak 
of the late war, when he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 30th Miss. 
regt. This position he filled with credit and ability, and was finally 
transferred to the position of hospital surgeon, at Newnan, Georgia, and 
was on duty at Macon, Georgia, at the time of Gen. Lee's surrender. 
Overwork and ill health has so prostrated him, that in 1868 he determined 
to seek recuperation in the north, and that year came to Lake City, as 
rector of the Episcopal church. His theological studies had been pursued 
under Biship Greene, in Jackson, Mississippi, during his physical 
inability to practice medicine, and had taken deacons' orders prior to 
1861, and priests' orders in 1867. He remained in charge of the Episcopal 
church till 1872, when his health being unequal to the work, he resigned, 
and resumed the practice of medicine and surgery, in Lake City and 
surrounding country. As a surgeon, Dr. Adams has been eminently 
successful, having performed some very complicated, and, in fact, some of 
most noted operations known to the profession. He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternities of Lake City. His first marriage was in 1861, to Miss 
Hellen Doty, of eastern New York. She died in 1874. His second marriage 
was on July 1, 1875, to Mrs. Elizabeth O. McNairy, a native of 
Philadelphia. They have a family of four sons and four daughters.