MAHONING COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: ADAMS, Joseph M. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 192

        JOSEPH M. ADAMS is one of the substantial business men of his
native city of Youngstown, where he is treasurer and manager of the Garland
Block and Sand Company, which controls a large and prosperous business in
the manufacturing of concrete blocks for architectural uses and in the
handling of sand and gravel. In the busier summer season the company
retains an average force of about twenty-five employees, and in the winters
but slight reductions is made in this force.
        Mr. Adams was born at Youngstown, on the 4th of March, 1877, and is
a son of Adam and Minnie (Grim) Adams, who were children at the time of the
immigration of the respective families from Germany to the United States,
both having been reared in Youngstown and their marriage having here been
solemnized. Adam Adams gave the major part of his active career to the
stone-quarry industry, and since his death, in 1902, his widow has
continued to maintain her home in Youngstown, where she is an earnest
communicant of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, as was also her husband.
        The early education of Joseph M. Adams was acquired in the
parochial and public schools of Youngstown, and as a lad of fifteen years
he gained his initiatory experience in farm work, to which he continued to
give his attention four years. Thereafter he was independently engaged in
the stone-quarry business seven years, and during the ensuing sixteen years
he was a successful mason contractor in his native city and county. He then
became an active executive of the company of which he is now the treasurer
and general manager, as noted in the opening paragraph of this review. In
politics he supports men and measures, rather than being constrained by
strict partisan lines, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the
parish of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
        In August, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Adams and Miss
Mary Riley, who was born in Pennsylvania and whose parents, John B. and
Mary Riley, were born in Ireland. The home circle of Mr. and Mrs. Adams
still includes all of their children, namely: Helen, Theresa, Estella,
Theodore and William.

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