Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....ADAMS, Louis S. 1835 - living in 1899
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  DR. LOUIS J. ADAMS, one of the most prominent and skilful physicians and
  surgeons of the village of Evansville, Briarcreek township, Columbia County,
  Pa., and a highly esteemed citizen of that town, was born on his present
  homestead, March 5, 1849, and is a son of Stephen and Julia Ann (Hutchins)
  Adams, and grandson of Anthony Adams.
  
    The Adams family is of English descent and Anthony Adams and his three
  brothers were the first of that name to locate in Briarcreek township. Anthony
  was the progenitor of one son and five daughters.
  
    Stephen Adams, the father of our subject and his parents' only, son, was born
  in 1818 and passed from this life on the old homestead in 1860. He was a
  shoemaker by trade and followed that occupation mostly throughout his active
  days. Politically he was an ardent Democrat and firmly supported the principles
  of his chosen party; he has also represented his fellow-townsmen in many
  township offices. He was a member of the old state militia. Mr. Adams was united
  in marriage to Julia Ann Hutchins, a native of Briarcreek township, and to this
  union six children were born, namely: Louis J., the subject of this narrative;
  Alice S., the wife of Milton Williams of Nescopeck, Luzerne County, Pa.; and
  four who died in infancy. Our subject's father was one of the progressive
  citizens of his community, and was held in high esteem by his neighbors and
  acquaintances.
  
    Dr. Louis J. Adams was educated in the public schools of New Columbus and
  Orangeville, and at the Bloomsburg Seminary. At the age of seventeen years he
  began teaching and taught some eight years. In 1874, having determined upon a
  medical career, he began studying medicine with Dr. J. J. Brown then of
  Miffinville, now of Bloomsburg; then, going to Cleveland he entered the
  Cleveland Medical College where he remained one year. He then entered the
  Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia from which he was graduated March 10,
  1877, after taking a two-years' course. Upon leaving school he returned home,
  proposing to rest prior to his locating, but he received so many calls that he
  concluded to remain there and has since built up a very large and lucrative
  practice. Our subject's practice extends over much of Columbia and Montour
  counties, and while he has not made any one branch of the profession a
  specialty, he has been most remarkably successful in the treatment of diphtheria.
  
    Dr. Adams formed a matrimonial alliance with Clara V. Smith and they were
  happily wedded June 15, 1882. She is a daughter of the late Isaac Smith who was
  formerly a farmer of Nescopeck township, but later a retired citizen of Berwick,
  To Dr. and Mrs. Adams has been born one child, Edna A. Our subject is a member
  of Knapp Lodge, No. 462. F. & A. M. In religious views he is an active member of
  the United Evangelical Church. In politics he strongly supports the Democratic
  party, has served as school director, was secretary of the school board for nine
  years, and has held several other township offices. Dr. Adams is already
  recognized as the leading physician of Evansville; he is well read, and takes a
  worthy pride in striving to become a master of the profession through which
  disease is made to yield to the ingenuity and the intelligence of man.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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