Lewis D. Adams Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: ADAMS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1255

      LEWIS D. ADAMS,* proprietor of a general store at Deerfield Center,
of which place he is postmaster, was born at West Amesbury, Mass., January
1O, 1860, a son George and Anna M. (Osgood) Adams. On both sides
his ancestors came from England, those on the paternal side settling in Exe-
ter, N. H., and the maternal ancestors in Massachusetts. They were quiet,
peaceable people, and, so far as is known, there is no military record in the
family. George Adams, the father of our subject, was born at Exeter, N. H.,
December 20, 1827. He was a carriage manufacturer by occupation. His
wife Anna was born at South Hampton, this county, August 11, 1839. Both
are still living and reside with their son Lewis in Deerfield.
      Lewis D. Adams attended the public schools until seventeen years of age,
during his vacations working as clerk in a grocery store. Later he entered his
father's carriage factory, where he learned carriage trimming, which occupa-
tion he followed for about ten years. He then bought a grocery store in
Bradford and conducted it two years, when he sold out, and in July, 1900,
came to Deerfield and bought the store which he is now operating, it being
the only general store in Deerfield Center. On July 10, 1914, he was ap-
pointed postmaster here. Mr. Adams has been twice married: first to Ida
L. Dunton, of Milford, Mass., who died leaving no children. On November
6, 1902, Mr. Adams married for his second wife, Lillian V., daughter of Sam-
uel Hill, of Deerfield. Of this marriage there have been two children: Rachel,
who is now deceased, and Mildred E., born March 20, 1910. By a previous
marriage Mrs. Adams had a daughter, Pauline E., born July 5, 1883, who was
educated in the Deerfield schools.
      Mr. Adams is a democrat in politics and has served the town as treas-
urer, but although repeatedly urged to accept various other offices, has always
declined. He and his wife are affiliated with the Universalist church. Mrs.
Adams is an active member of the Rebekahs, the Relief Corps, and Grange
and has held all the chairs.

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