BIO: CHARLES PETER ADDAMS, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 199-200
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    CHARLES PETER ADDAMS, of Carlisle, is descended from mixed English and
  German ancestry. One of his paternal ancestors, Robert Adams, came from
  Oxfordshire, England, shortly after the conveyance of 500 acres of land to
  him by William Penn, by deed dated Dec. 22, 1681, and located in what is now
  the city of Philadelphia.
    
  200	CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
    William Adams, his paternal great-great-grandfather, settled in Lancaster
  county, and in 1761 founded the borough of Adamstown. His son, Isaac, the
  great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a captain, of light
  infantry, in the Revolutionary army. He had six sons: William, the eldest,
  served in the Legislature, twice as presidential elector, commissioner,
  associate judge, and two terms in Congress. Another son, General John Addams,
  in the second war with Great Britain, commanded one of the two brigades of
  State troops furnished by Pennsylvania for the defense of the nation. Another
  son was the grandparent of James Addams Beaver, Governor of this State from
  1887 to 1891. Another son, Peter, the grandfather of the subject of this
  sketch, was a presidential elector for Jackson in 1825, and for Harrison in
  1840, and in 1848 ran on the Whig ticket, with Henry Clay for President, as
  the candidate for Congress from the Berks district against William Strong,
  afterward Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. George E.
  Addams, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a well known clergyman
  of the Reformed Church.
  
    The name Addams was originally spelled with one d, as is customary, but
  Richard Adams, in order to distinguish the family, added a second d, and this
  mode of spelling the name has been followed for nearly a century.
  
    On the maternal side Mr. Charles F. Addams is of German ancestry, dating
  back to 1765, when one of his lineal ancestors came from Germany with
  Pastorious and settled at Germantown. [note: Pastorious came in 1683.]
  
    Charles Peter Addams was born at Carlisle in 1863; graduated from Dickinson
  College, Carlisle, in 1884; read law with Henderson and Hays, was admitted to
  the Bar of Cumberland county in 1887, and located at Carlisle where he now
  resides. He took an active interest in politics, and served as chairman of
  the Republican county committee from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1901 to
  1904, inclusive. He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention of
  1894, which nominated Daniel H. Hastings for Governor. He was chief clerk in
  the Attorney General's Department, at Harrisburg, from 1895 to 1899 and law
  clerk since 1899.
  
    In December, 1888, Mr. Addams was married to Laura, daughter of Franklin
  and Sarah Jane Gardner, of Carlisle, and has one son, Lawrence Gray.