HENRY D. ADAMS, M. D. - Biography

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This biography appears on page 653 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HENRY D. ADAMS, M. D., Union Grove is a son of Dr. A. P. Adams, a man
well and favorably known in the profession; he was one of the oldest
settlers; located in Paris Township, fall of 1846, and at once entered
into a large and lucrative practice; one of his first patients was a
Mrs. Austin Dunham, of the first family that settled in Union Grove; he
was born Dec. 15, 1795 - died June 8, 1869. His wife was Louisa Bush, a
native of New York State, born 1796. Henry D. Adams attended Rush
Medical College 1850-51 and 1851-52; graduated Feb. 19, 1852; he again
attended course of lectures winter of 1855; was a guest of D. H. Lincoln
while in Chicago - at that time the well known Prof. Brainard and N. S.
Davis, M. D., were connected with Rush Medical College; Dr. Adams has a
very extended practice. Married Priscilla Cadwell March 29, 1847; have
had three children - Allison D., born Aug. 29, 1849; H. Kirke, Nov. 28,
1851; Ellie R., March 10, 1855. Allison is clergyman of a Congregational
church in Nebraska; H. Kirke, teller Manufacturers' Bank, Racine; Ellie
married Capt. Ben M. Frees, lumber merchant in Chicago. Mrs. Dr. Adams'
father was E. S. Cadwell, native of New Hampshire; was an officer in war
of 1812, and afterward a respected minister.