Miami County OhArchives Biographies.....Adams, Sarles Travers May 21, 1812 - 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cynthia Krueger cynthiastewart@hotmail.com December 5, 2010, 9:34 am Source: History of Northern Wisconsin 1881 Author: Western Historical Co. Chicago Sarles Travers Adams was born in Dutchess County, New York, May 21, 1812. His grandfather, Gilbert Adams, immigrated from Massachusetts to New York in 1770; he was in the French and Indian War, and also served under Washington in the Revolution; died in September 1826. Philip Adams, the father of S.T., was born in Dutchess County, New York, in October, 1776; immigrated to Ohio in the fall of 1824; settled in Warren County, thirty miles north of Cincinnati; remained there until December, 1832, when he moved north into Miami County, four miles west of where Piqua now stands. Philip Adams died in his ninetieth year, and Pheba Adams, his wife, died when about ninety years of age. S.T. Adams puchased a farm in Miami County in the year 1835, but, owing to the exceeding hard times, he was obliged to labor incessantly and, by his labors, managed to pay for his farm and improve it. In 1856, he sold the old home and purchased another near Troy, in the same county, but tiring of the locality, he again sold out there and purchased a splendid farm of 80 acres ten miles west of Piqua, in Darke County. He was married to Mary Harrison, daughter of Richard Harrison, in the year 1832 and his family were all born on the old homestead in Miami County. In 1866, his family being grown up and married but four, and wishing to procure homes, they started for Wisconsin in May, 1866. The family consisted in all of eleven children, vix: Richard, Albert, John T., Hannah, Pheba, Mary E., Sarah J., David, Louisa, Reuben and Tamer L.; all the children except the four youngest, came to Wisconsin in May, 1866, S.T. and the balance of the family arriving in the present town of Springfield on Nov. 23, 1866. Richard Adams was the first permanent settler of the town of Springfield; he took a homestead on September 22, and having erected a bark shanty, moved his family into the then dense forest on May 25, 1866; his family consisted of himself, his wife and two children; his whole family numbers seven children, two having died previous to his coming to Wisconsin and the rest having been born in Wisconsin. The children now living are Thomas A., Mary F. (Devore) and A. Lawrence, all residing in the town of Springfield. Albert Adams also took a homestead on Section 22 in the same town, and has made the same his permanent home; he now has the best cultivated farm in the town; his family is a wife and two children - Anderson Grant and Anna Belle. Thomas J. Ross, the husband of Mary E. Adams, F.M. Linton, the husband of Hannah Adams, and William Randolph, the husband of Sarah J. Adams, all came to Wisconsin in May, 1866, taking homesteads and making homes for their families. S.T. Adams, the father of the Ohio Settlement (as it was called), purchased 80 acres of land in the same town with his children, and commenced improving, and, with his sons and sons-in-law, to develop the country, clearing land, cutting roads, building, etc., etc. In 1868, he bought half interest in a saw-mill with Mr. L.L. Curtiss, who afterward became his son-in-law, by marrying Louisa Adams. The mill was erected where Hersey now stands. S.T. Adams, in 1876, became full owner of the mill, running it in this wise until the fall of 1877, when the property was sold to a Mr. W.L. Spooner; after this, the mill was soon after consumed; was rebuilt and burned again, and on being rebuilt once more, went into the hands of Mr. E.S. Austin, Mr. Adams was quite a heavy loser in the burning of the mill, not having received the purchase money in full for the property. Mr. Adams had two sons, Richard and John T., in the late war. John returned from the army, but survived by a short time, dying from the effects of the service to his country. Richard was honorably discharged, but received such injuries as to almost ruin his health for life. Losina was married to W.W. Hopkins, who has since invented the Hopkins Calculator and the Hopkins Wagon Scale, which he is now manufacturing at Thorntown, Indiana. David Adams, having married, has one child - Albert A. Adams. Is a first-class workman (carpenter and joiner), now residing in Hersey. Reuben Adams married Miss Hattie Erb; has two children - R. Durand and Lilly. He worked for his father around the mill for several years, finally keeping his books, and is now Postmaster and Notary Public in the village of Hersey. The family have ever clung together as seldom a large family do, ever ready to aid in a brotherly manner. They have done much to develop the country, in which they have taken great pride, always making their mark by their cleanliness and tidiness in their work and the thorough manner in which it is done. The family are direct descendants of the old Adams family - John and John Quincy - and still hang on to that determined American principle for which the family have long been noted. Excerpt from History of St. Croix County, 1881 Additional Comments: I have submitted Sarles and his wife's information on findagrave.com. I started by helping with the genealogy of L.L. Curtiss, who was Sarles' partner in a sawmill here in St. Croix County, WI, where I live. 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