Biographical Sketch of Addison Adams, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Addison Adams, a farmer, is a son of John and Eleanor (Collier) Adams,
the former born in Virginia in 1770, and the latter born in Maryland.
After marriage the parents settled in Virginia, where the father served
as overseer of a plantation.  They afterward moved to Kentucky, where 
they lived a short time, and then bought a farm in Montgomery County,
Tenn.  John Adams was drowned at the age of fifty-one years, and his
widow lived to be eighty-five years old.  Addison, the eighth in the 
family of eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity, was born in
Virginia, in 1812.  He was reared a farmer with limited educational 
and upon reaching manhood managed his mother's farm.  In 1836 he mar-
ried Eliza E. Crowder, a native of Virginia, who was born in 1811.  In
1841 Mr. and Mrs. Adams moved to Osage County, MO., then to Gasconade
County, settling in Crawford County about 1845.  They moved to their
present homestead in 1856.  With the exception of about three years,
when he followed the carpenter's trade, Mr. Adams has been engaged in
farming all his life, and now owns about 300 acres.  Of the seven 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Adams four are now living: Thomas J.,
Martha, Eleanor and Mary S.  Mr. Adams' political principles are those
of the Democratic party.  He has served as magistrate and constable,
and is president of the Farmers' Joint Stock Company.  He has been a 
member of the Masonic fraternity for thirty-seven years, and since his
fourteenth years has held membership in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.  Mrs. Adams has been a member of the same church since she was
sixteen years old.

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