J. F. Adams Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1432-1433 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	J. F. ADAMS, editor and publisher of the Leader, in the village of 
White, Brookings county, is a native of Mankato, Blue Earth county, 
Minnesota, where he was born on the 9th of April 1877, being a son of F. 
J. and Lena (Kohl) Adams, of whom specific mention is made on another 
page of this work, so that a recapitulation of the family history is not 
demanded in this connection. The subject was a child of about two and 
one-half years at the time of his parents' removal from Minnesota to 
Brookings, South Dakota, in 1880, and there he was reared to maturity, 
having prosecuted his studies in the public schools until he was 
eighteen years of age, when he entered the office of the Brookings 
Press, where he served an apprenticeship at the "art preservative of all 
arts," gaining an intimate knowledge of the various details of the 
printing business. Prior to identifying himself with his present 
enterprise he worked at his trade in various towns in South Dakota, 
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and in 1900 established the White Leader, over 
whose destinies he has since presided, making the paper an effective 
exponent of local interests and also a local power in political and 
public affairs, the policy of the paper being uncompromisingly 
Republican. The Leader is issued on Friday of each week and is an eight-
column folio. The office is located in a two-story building, which is 
owned by Mr. Adams, and its equipment is modern and complete, the job 
department having the best of facilities for turning out all classes of 
work customarily handled in a country office. 

	In politics Mr. Adams is a stalwart Republican, and both in a 
personal way and through the columns of his paper does what he can for 
the. promotion of the party cause. He is affiliated with White Lodge, 
No. 3691, Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member of the South Dakota 
Press Association, in which he takes a lively interest. He and his wife 
are members of the Daughters of Rebekah, auxiliary to the Odd Fellows 
lodge, of which he is a member. 

	On the 25th of July, 1900, Mr. Adams was united in marriage to 
Miss M. H. Halstead, who was born in Manliato, Minnesota, being a 
daughter of F. A. Halstead, now of Mankato. She is a lady of culture and 
gracious presence and has won a wide circle of friends in White, being 
prominent in social and church affairs and being a member of the 
Congregational church. She has excellent literary taste and materially 
assists her husband in his newspaper enterprise.