Douglas County NeArchives Biographies.....Adams, James Henry 1868 - 
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James Henry Adams

James Henry Adams, lawyer, was born in Brighton, Illinois, April 3, 1868, the
only son of Reverend William R. Adams. The father was born in New Hampshire, was
a graduate of Dartmouth College and received the degrees of Master of Arts and
Bachelor of Theology from Blackburn University. He was ordained a minister of
the Presbyterian Church in 1861 and from 1888 to 1900 preached at various points
in Nebraska.

James Henry Adams moved with the family to Blairstown, Iowa, at about the age of
eleven. In 1888 he was graduated from Coe College with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary scholarship society.
Thereafter he taught at Hardy, Nebraska, as principal of schools for two years.
In 1892 he received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Michigan and has
been engaged in the practice of law ever since in the city of Omaha. He has been
general counsel of the Bankers Reserve Life Company since 1906.

Mr. Adams is a member of the American, the Nebraska State, and the Omaha Bar
Associations. He is a Republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, being a
member of the Permanent Judicial Commission of the General Assembly of that
church. He is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Shrine. He
was married in 1898 to Clara L. Wigton, who died in 1900. Mr. Adams was married
again to Jessie L. Witwer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1909.

He has three children: Reverend Clarence W. Adams, born in 1900, who was
graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1922, and is now a missionary of
the Presbyterian Church in northern India; Robert K. Adams, born in 1911, now a
junior at Grinnell College; Elizabeth W. Adams, born in 1913, now a sophomore at
Grinnell College. Residence: Omaha.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932


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