Freestone County, Texas Biographies Biography of Dr. William J. Adams (Feb. 1, 1871-Feb. 12, 1925, buried Dawson Cemetery in Navarro Co., TX.) [Source - Who's who in finance, banking and insurance, Volume 1 edited by John William Leonard. Joseph & Sefton, Publishers of New York. 1911.] ADAMS, William J. Banker, physician; born Cotton Gin, Freestone County, Texas. Feb. 1, 1871; son of Peter L. and Mary D. (Williamson) Adams; educated in Baylor University. Waco, Texas; and graduated from the University of Tennessee, Medical Department, as M. D., in 1892; post-graduate work in Post Graduate Medical School, Chicago; married. Coolidge, Texas, Dec. 7. 1892. Beulah Burney. Practising medicine at Robert Lee, Texas. President First National Bank of Robert Lee, Texas. Democrat. Member Tom Green County Medical Society: Texas Slate Medical Society, American Medical Association. Address: Box 516.