SAMUEL E. AND JENNIE STARR ADAMS FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

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	SAMUEL E. AND JENNIE STARR ADAMS FAMILY

Born: Samuel Adams was born April 15, 1862.
Place: Shade Gap, Pennsylvania.
Died:  Sunday Morning, December 2, 1928 
Place:  He passed away at their Harris Street house (now renamed 
Orange Street) Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.

Occupation:    He worked as a carpenter at the Missoula Sash and 
Door Factory where he was also a volunteer fireman.   After they 
moved to Garnet he was owner and operator of the Adams Store.  
Mrs. Adams ran the post office from their home.  He later took up 
mining returning to carpentry when time allowed.

Married: he married Jennie Starr on September 6, 1904 at 
	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He was 45 and she was 25 
years old.
	Born:  she was born on February 3, 1880.
	Place: she was born at Shade Gap, Pennsylvania.
	Died:  she passed away on March 8, 1960.
	Place: she passed away quietly in her sleep at the home of 
her daughter Mary Jane Adams Morin, 1018 South 2nd 
West, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.
Children:
	1)  Samuel Adams, Junior
		Born: he was born in 1906.
		Place:  Missoula, Missoula County, Montana
		Died: he died as an infant in 1906.
		Place:  Missoula, Missoula County, Montana

	2)  Mary Agnes Adams 
		Born:  she was born in 1909.
		Place: Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
		Died:  she died as a child in 1912.
		Place: Garnet, Granite County, Montana.

	3)  Mary Jane Adams (Morin)
		Born: She was born in 1917.
		Place: St. Patrick's Hospital, Missoula, Montana.
		Died:
		Place:
		Married: she married Alan Morin of Missoula, Montana.
		She attended the Garnet school through the 4th grade.
		Children:
			1)  Jerry Morin
				Born: he was born on October 15, 1942.
				Place: Missoula, Missoula County, Montana
				Died:
				Place:
				Married: he married Siedre Larum.
				
			2)  Robert (Bob) Morin
				Born: he was born on November 30, 1955.
				Place: Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.
				Died:
				Place:
				Married: he married Cynthia Livingston.
				Children:
					1) Krista Morin
					2) Thane Morin

Following their marriage Samuel and Jennie Adams moved to 
Missoula, Montana and lived there a short time before moving to 
Garnet where they bought a little house on the hillside south of 
Kelly's Saloon.  The building was only 16 by 19 feet, but a 
kitchen was built on.  A covered passageway led to the woodshed 
and outhouse.  There was a wide porch, and a picket fence 
surrounding a neat yard and garden.  Water was carried from a 
Lowery's well or the Wells Hotel.

In 1909 he located the Mountain View and Majestic Mill Site claims 
near Garnet.  In 1918 they sold their store in Garnet and he made 
mine timbers in his carpenter shop which burned in 1971.  The 
Adam's store was located left of the present Guard Station in 
Garnet.  He then worked at the Mussigbrod mine and mill site.  He 
built the first Union Peak lookout.  He had interests in the 
Mountain View and Golden Center mines.  Sam Adams' photograph was 
taken with other miners working at the Grant and Hartford Mine in 
1926.  

The Adam's house was the second nicest house in Garnet.  Only the 
Ritchey house was nicer.  It was located at the top of the hill 
above town.  It was a three room house built with logs covered 
with yellow drop siding and a picket fence.  It was an interesting 
place to visit.  Mrs. Adams had the post office in her home, an 
organ and a parlor with a fern plant.  In 1927 Adams sold his 
house in Garnet and moved to Missoula, Montana.








Bibliography:  

Hammond, Helen 1990.  Garnet Was Their Home, unknown publisher.

Hammond, Helen 1983.  Garnet Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, 
Missoula, Montana.

Magazine of Western History, 1964.  Centennial Mining Addition, 
Volume XIV, No. 3, Page 45.

Morin, Mary Jane Adams 1995.  Interview by Bureau of Land 
Management concerning the Adams Family at Garnet, Montana, 
unpublished, June 15.