Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ADAMS, HENRY CULLEN 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green
Lake, Jefferson and Marquette Counties. Population,
1900—170,792.

HENRY CULLEN ADAMS (Rep.) was born in Verona, Oneida county,
N. Y., Nov. 28, 1850, and came with his parents to Wisconsin
the following year; received his education in the common
schools, Albion Academy and the University of Wisconsin ;
later he engaged in dairying and fruit raising; was elected
member of assembly in 1883 and re-elected in 1885 ; during
the winters of 1887, 1888 and 1889 took an active part in
the Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes throughout the state ; was
president of the State Dairymen's Association three years;
secretary of the State Horticultural Society two years; was
appointed by Gov. Hoard superintendent of public property in
1888; was appointed dairy and food commissioner in 1895 and
served until May 1, 1902, when he resigned to become a
candidate for congress; was elected to the 58th Congress,
receiving 17,519 votes against 14,483 for John J. Wood
(Dem.), and 1,182 for C. F. Cronk (Pro.).

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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