Edward C. Adams, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 950-951 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EDWARD C. ADAMS, M. D., of Watertown, is a native of the state of 
New Jersey and comes of distinguished ancestry, the name which he bears 
having long been prominently identified with the history of the nation, 
while the two Presidents of the name were of the same family line. He 
was born in the town of Hudson, New Jersey, on the 20th of May, 1855, 
being a son of Rev. Edward W. and Mary P. (Purdy) Adams, his father 
being a widely known clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church and a 
descendant of the famous Massachusetts family of the name. His death 
occurred at Aurora, Illinois, as the result of an accident, in 
February, 1904, at the age of seventy-four years, while the Doctor's 
mother died in 1902 at Maywood, a suburb of Chicago. Rev. Edward Adams 
came to Dakota in 1885 and devoted two years to establishing the 
Methodist Episcopal church throughout South Dakota. When the subject 
was a child his parents removed to Illinois, and the Doctor secured his 
early educational training in the public schools of that state, later 
attended a seminary in Plainfield, that state, and after a preparatory 
course at Evanston, he entered the celebrated Northwestern University, 
in that beautiful suburb of Chicago, and there completed the classical 
course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1879 and receiving 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1882 the degree of Master of 
Arts was bestowed. He then passed two years as a student in Jefferson 
Medical College, graduating in 1881. He then devoted two years to 
hospital work, which proved of inestimable value to him, and was 
engaged in private practice for one year, when he took a course in 
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1886. Soon 
afterward he came to South Dakota and located in Watertown, where he 
has ever since maintained his home and where he has built up a very 
large and distinctively representative practice, the while gaining high 
prestige in professional circles in the state. The Doctor is 
essentially loyal and public-spirited as a citizen and shows a lively 
interest in all that makes for the advancement and well-being of the 
city and state of his adoption, while he has served in various city and 
county offices and was for nine years a member of the state militia. He 
is a staunch Republican in his political proclivities and is identified 
with various professional societies and fraternal organizations. He is 
a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while Mrs. Adams is 
active in the Episcopalian church.  

	In Watertown, on the 20th of September, 1892, Dr. Adams was 
united in marriage to Miss Marion Flint, who was born in Iowa, being a 
daughter of Mortimer D. and Ella Flint. To Dr. and Mrs. Adams were born 
two children, Violet Marion, who died January 9, 1900, at the age of 
eighteen months, and Edward M., who was born on the 16th of August, 
1899.