Hon. Edward Haven Adams of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Portrait of Hon. Edward Haven Adams on Page 1087

Page 1086

   HON. EDWARD HAVEN ADAMS, a prominent citizen of Ports-
mouth, N. H., was born in the town of South Eliot, Maine, a son of Levi
Woodbury and Elizabeth (Staples) Adams.  He was educated at the public
schools of that town, at the academy at South Berwick, Maine, at the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary and Woman's College, Kents Hill, Maine, graduating
in 1890, and at the University of Maine Law School, at Bangor, Maine.  He
was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1897 and has practiced his pro-
fession in Portsmouth, N. H., since that time.  Mr. Adams has filled all the
important offices in his adopted city, being always elected to them by a very
large vote.  He was clerk of the council in 1895, alderman in 1902, member
of the board of instruction from 1895 to 1902, city solicitor in 1895, mayor
in 1909 and 1910, justice of the District Court from 1895 until the present,
a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, a councilman in 1913.
He is a member of the Warwick Club, a Knight Templar, a 32° Scottish
Rite Mason, and a member of Bektash Temple at Concord, N. H.  Mr.
Adams was married in 1898 to Florence E. Sanderson.  They have three
children, one son and two daughters, namely: Woodbury Sanderson, Mar-
garet and Helen Francis.  Mr. Adams' mother and four sisters are now liv-
ing, namely:  Mrs. Elizabeth Adams at Portsmouth, N. H., Mrs. George W.
Shapleigh at Portsmouth, N. H., Mrs. Samuel H. Chauncey at Springfield,
Mass., Miss Fannie D. Adams at Portsmouth, N. H., and Mrs. Irving Davis
at South Eliot, Maine.