George S. Adams, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 694-695 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE S. ADAMS, M. D., is one of the representative young 
members of the medical profession in the city of Yankton, where his 
ability and pleasing personality have been the factors in gaining him 
an excellent and gratifying support. The Doctor is a native of the 
state of Michigan, having been born in Lowell, Kent county, on the 20th 
of December, 1876, a son of Francis D. and Jane (Ashley) Adams, of 
whose six children four are living at the present time, namely: Persis, 
who is the wife of Robert F. Reynolds, of Groton, South Dakota; George 
Sheldon, the immediate subject of this sketch; John F., who is a member 
of the class of 1905 in the medical department of the University of 
Chicago, and Charles E., who is a student in the University of 
Minnesota. Francis D. Adams was born in Waterbury, Vermont, in the year 
1838, and when he was a child his father met his death by drowning, and 
thereafter he passed some time in the home of an uncle, but at an early 
age he began to depend upon his own resources, relying upon his own 
efforts to attain a position of independence. He learned the trade of 
millwright, to which he devoted his attention for a number of years, in 
Michigan and Indiana, and finally he became the owner of a flouring 
mill in Groton, Michigan, operating the same for a number of years and 
then engaging in the manufacture of wagons and buggies in that village. 
Later he removed to Lowell, that state, where he was engaged in the 
implement business until 1879, when he came to South Dakota with a view 
to finding a permanent location, making a tour through various parts of 
the state and then returning to Michigan. In the spring of 1880 he 
again came to the state and filed claim to a tract of land in Brown 
county, where the family resided for a number of years, after which 
they removed to the village of Groton, where he engaged in the banking 
business for several years, becoming one of the prominent and 
influential citizens of the county and having the high regard of all 
who knew him. There he continued to reside until his death, which 
occurred on the 17th of January, 1899. He was a staunch adherent of the 
Republican party and was a potent factor in its councils' in South 
Dakota. In 1893 he represented Brown county in the state senate, and 
for several years he was a member of the board of regents of state 
educational institutions. He was one of the honored pioneers of the new 
commonwealth and was closely associated with the upbuilding and 
progress of the same, ever being one of its loyal and valued citizens. 
His wife was born in the state of New York, in 1840, and when she was 
young she accompanied her parents on their removal to the state of 
Michigan, her marriage to Mr. Adams being solemnized in Groton, that 
state. She is still living and resides in Groton, South Dakota, the 
town having been thus named at the suggestion of the father of the 
subject.  

	George Sheldon Adams was ten years of age at the time of his 
parents' removal from Michigan to South Dakota, and thus the state has 
been his home during practically his entire life. After availing 
himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools, including the 
completion of a course in the Groton high school, he was matriculated 
in the State Agricultural College, at Brookings, where he continued his 
studies for one year. In the autumn of 1897 he entered that well-known 
institution, Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, where he 
completed a thorough technical course, being graduated in June, 1901,  
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after his graduation 
the Doctor received an appointment as assistant physician in the state 
hospital for the insane, in Yankton, and this position he has since 
held, while his service in the connection has been of the most able and 
discriminating order. He is a Republican in his political proclivities 
and fraternally is identified with St. John's Lodge, No. 1, Free and 
Accepted Masons.