Bios: Aaron Adams 1828 - 1881: Amity Twp and Reading, Berks Co, PA

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From:  Morton L Montgomery, "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks
County, Pennsylvania.  Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1909.  p 1489

Surnames mentioned:
Adams, Bell, Egolf, Estley [Esterly], Geiger, Hart, McCormick, Moyer,
Robinson.

Note: Surnames of related families have been capitalized, but are lower
case in the original.


AARON ADAMS, deceased, who for many years was a resident of Reading, where
he was engaged as a machinist, was born in 1828, in Amity Township, Berks
county, son of Henry and Mary (BELL) Adams, the former a native of New York
State, who came to Berks county when a young man, working as an iron worker
until his death in 1850.  He and his wife had these children:  Hiram, Aaron,
Samuel, Harry, Sarah, Mary and Martha.

Aaron Adams received his education in the common schools of his native
township, and later learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for some
years, and then took up the trade of machinist which he followed in Reading
until his death.

Mr. Adams was married in 1852 to Esther HART, daughter of John and Kate
(MOYER) HART, and to this union were born children as follows:  Ida died in
infancy; Mary E, deceased, m Charles McCORMICK and had one child, Winfield;
Melvin E, a machinist, m Ida ADAMS and they had five children, Aaron W (m
Cora EGOLF and has two children, Stanley and Fred), Esther (m Daniel ESTLEY
and has one child, Mary), Sally, Melvin and Harry M, deceased; Kate,
deceased, m Charles GEIGER and has one child, Carl; Amelia, deceased, m Hale
ROBINSON and had two children, Eugene, deceased, and Albert.

In religious belief, Mr Adams was a member of the Reformed Church, and in
that faith he died in 1881, his funeral beeing conducted by the I.O.O.F., of
which he had been a member for many years, being connected with the
Encampment.  In political matters he was a Republican.