Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....ADAMS, HENRY CULLEN
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. 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 through-out 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 and re-
elected in 1904, receiving 22,773 votes against 15,205 for
John J. Wood (Dem.), 958 for Wm. J. McKay  (Pro.), and
461 for Henry J. Dunham  (Soc. Dem.).

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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