BIOGRAPHIES: William S ADAMS, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 7 January 2002 ==================================================================== William S. Adams, a well-liked farmer, owning 80 acres in Section 7, Maple Grove Township, was born in Eau Claire County, this state, Feb. 16, 1890, son of John and Katherine (Gooder) Adams, natives respectively of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, who farmed in Wisconsin and Montana for many years, and in 1915 moved to Minneapolis, where the father died Sept. 18, 1920, and where the mother still lives. In the family there were four children: Margaret, Christina, Clarence and William S. William S. received a thorough district school education and learned farming from his parents. In 1910 he took a homestead of 320 acres in Montana, on which he proved up. In 1914 he came back to this state, and rented his father's farm. He bought his present place in 1919. He has made general improvements, broke about 15 acres, and carries on mixed farming and dairying, making a specialty of a good herd of Holsteins, headed by a full-blooded sire. Mr. Adams married Etta Whitford, daughter of Charles and Louisa (Whitford) Whitford, who are now farming in Eau Claire County, this state. In the Whitford family there were eight children: Laura, John, Ira, Elliott, Etta, Walter, Olive and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are the parents of six children: Louisa, born May 31 1911; Jeannette, born Oct. 25, 1912; Richard, born Nov. 3, 1914; Jacob, born Sept. 7, 1915; John, born Jan. 15, 1918; and Anton, born April 1, 1920. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 333.