"David Adams is Dead Lived in Hutchinson Over Half Century"
After serving as a carpenter's apprentice for 3 or 4 years, David left England and arrived in America on 20 November, 1854 in New York. He arrived in Minnesota in the Spring of 1855 via Chicago and Faribault, MN where stands the a home built by the young carpenter.
He moved to the young settlement of Hutchinson with Wm. Cook in the summer of 1857 and stayed with the family until the US Dakota War of 1862. He served as a defender of the Hutchinson Stockade in the US Dakota War (Sioux Uprising) of 1862 (Hutchinson Leader Sept 27, 1912) and later as a Union soldier enlisting in 1864 in Co B, 1st Minnesota Infantry fighting in campaigns at City Point, VA; Petersburg; and, finally Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was discharged in June, 1865 and returned to Hutchinson in 1866.
Upon his return to Hutchinson, Mr. Adams married Ann M. Durant, also from England, on May 24, 1868. The union was blessed with 5 children three girls and two boys:
Anna Maria (never married)
Ella Jettie (never married)
William (never married)
Mary C E (married Dr S E Bennion)
D Albert (married Ida M Anderson)
After the war, David purchased his own land in Lynn township in McLeod county, not far from Hutchinson. He was the first justice of the peace for the township. After 8 years he returned to the city of Hutchinson where his business was in loans and real estate and became the one of the first presidents of the Bank of Hutchinson. Within the town of Hutchinson he served as justice of the peace from age 21 until 73 excluding only his time in the army. His public service extended also to town clerk, town recorder after incorporation, member and president of city council, state legislature from 1872-1873, member of the State board of equalization for two years under Gov. John Lind, and member and/or president of the board of education.
Additional civic memberships in the community included the Episcopal church, Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic (G A R).
His last message was, "Do not forget to express to all citizens of Hutchinson my highest regard and esteem for their universally kind sympathy and tender charity during my affliction."
Mr. Adams suffered a stroke in 1910 that confined him to his home; later moving to St Luke's hospital in the Spring of 1911. Adams died due to complications from cancer that was mistaken for gall stones at St Luke's Hospital.
Hutchinson Leader, June 16, 1911
Another source notes "although not a member of the home guard did duty with them in the defense of the place" (Hutchinson Stockade in defense of the Sioux attack, Sept, 1862) Alden, Ogle & Company, . Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota, History of Minnesota, Presidents of the United States.. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1888. 544. Print.
and
other sources.
After serving as a carpenter's apprentice for 3 or 4 years, David left England and arrived in America on 20 November, 1854 in New York. He arrived in Minnesota in the Spring of 1855 via Chicago and Faribault, MN where stands the a home built by the young carpenter.
He moved to the young settlement of Hutchinson with Wm. Cook in the summer of 1857 and stayed with the family until the US Dakota War of 1862. He served as a defender of the Hutchinson Stockade in the US Dakota War (Sioux Uprising) of 1862 (Hutchinson Leader Sept 27, 1912) and later as a Union soldier enlisting in 1864 in Co B, 1st Minnesota Infantry fighting in campaigns at City Point, VA; Petersburg; and, finally Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was discharged in June, 1865 and returned to Hutchinson in 1866.
Upon his return to Hutchinson, Mr. Adams married Ann M. Durant, also from England, on May 24, 1868. The union was blessed with 5 children three girls and two boys:
Anna Maria (never married)
Ella Jettie (never married)
William (never married)
Mary C E (married Dr S E Bennion)
D Albert (married Ida M Anderson)
After the war, David purchased his own land in Lynn township in McLeod county, not far from Hutchinson. He was the first justice of the peace for the township. After 8 years he returned to the city of Hutchinson where his business was in loans and real estate and became the one of the first presidents of the Bank of Hutchinson. Within the town of Hutchinson he served as justice of the peace from age 21 until 73 excluding only his time in the army. His public service extended also to town clerk, town recorder after incorporation, member and president of city council, state legislature from 1872-1873, member of the State board of equalization for two years under Gov. John Lind, and member and/or president of the board of education.
Additional civic memberships in the community included the Episcopal church, Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic (G A R).
His last message was, "Do not forget to express to all citizens of Hutchinson my highest regard and esteem for their universally kind sympathy and tender charity during my affliction."
Mr. Adams suffered a stroke in 1910 that confined him to his home; later moving to St Luke's hospital in the Spring of 1911. Adams died due to complications from cancer that was mistaken for gall stones at St Luke's Hospital.
Hutchinson Leader, June 16, 1911
Another source notes "although not a member of the home guard did duty with them in the defense of the place" (Hutchinson Stockade in defense of the Sioux attack, Sept, 1862) Alden, Ogle & Company, . Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota, History of Minnesota, Presidents of the United States.. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1888. 544. Print.
and
other sources.
"David Adams is Dead Lived in Hutchinson Over Half Century"
After serving as a carpenter's apprentice for 3 or 4 years, David left England and arrived in America on 20 November, 1854 in New York. He arrived in Minnesota in the Spring of 1855 via Chicago and Faribault, MN where stands the a home built by the young carpenter.
He moved to the young settlement of Hutchinson with Wm. Cook in the summer of 1857 and stayed with the family until the US Dakota War of 1862. He served as a defender of the Hutchinson Stockade in the US Dakota War (Sioux Uprising) of 1862 (Hutchinson Leader Sept 27, 1912) and later as a Union soldier enlisting in 1864 in Co B, 1st Minnesota Infantry fighting in campaigns at City Point, VA; Petersburg; and, finally Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was discharged in June, 1865 and returned to Hutchinson in 1866.
Upon his return to Hutchinson, Mr. Adams married Ann M. Durant, also from England, on May 24, 1868. The union was blessed with 5 children three girls and two boys:
Anna Maria (never married)
Ella Jettie (never married)
William (never married)
Mary C E (married Dr S E Bennion)
D Albert (married Ida M Anderson)
After the war, David purchased his own land in Lynn township in McLeod county, not far from Hutchinson. He was the first justice of the peace for the township. After 8 years he returned to the city of Hutchinson where his business was in loans and real estate and became the one of the first presidents of the Bank of Hutchinson. Within the town of Hutchinson he served as justice of the peace from age 21 until 73 excluding only his time in the army. His public service extended also to town clerk, town recorder after incorporation, member and president of city council, state legislature from 1872-1873, member of the State board of equalization for two years under Gov. John Lind, and member and/or president of the board of education.
Additional civic memberships in the community included the Episcopal church, Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic (G A R).
His last message was, "Do not forget to express to all citizens of Hutchinson my highest regard and esteem for their universally kind sympathy and tender charity during my affliction."
Mr. Adams suffered a stroke in 1910 that confined him to his home; later moving to St Luke's hospital in the Spring of 1911. Adams died due to complications from cancer that was mistaken for gall stones at St Luke's Hospital.
Hutchinson Leader, June 16, 1911
Another source notes "although not a member of the home guard did duty with them in the defense of the place" (Hutchinson Stockade in defense of the Sioux attack, Sept, 1862) Alden, Ogle & Company, . Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota, History of Minnesota, Presidents of the United States.. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1888. 544. Print.
and
other sources.
After serving as a carpenter's apprentice for 3 or 4 years, David left England and arrived in America on 20 November, 1854 in New York. He arrived in Minnesota in the Spring of 1855 via Chicago and Faribault, MN where stands the a home built by the young carpenter.
He moved to the young settlement of Hutchinson with Wm. Cook in the summer of 1857 and stayed with the family until the US Dakota War of 1862. He served as a defender of the Hutchinson Stockade in the US Dakota War (Sioux Uprising) of 1862 (Hutchinson Leader Sept 27, 1912) and later as a Union soldier enlisting in 1864 in Co B, 1st Minnesota Infantry fighting in campaigns at City Point, VA; Petersburg; and, finally Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was discharged in June, 1865 and returned to Hutchinson in 1866.
Upon his return to Hutchinson, Mr. Adams married Ann M. Durant, also from England, on May 24, 1868. The union was blessed with 5 children three girls and two boys:
Anna Maria (never married)
Ella Jettie (never married)
William (never married)
Mary C E (married Dr S E Bennion)
D Albert (married Ida M Anderson)
After the war, David purchased his own land in Lynn township in McLeod county, not far from Hutchinson. He was the first justice of the peace for the township. After 8 years he returned to the city of Hutchinson where his business was in loans and real estate and became the one of the first presidents of the Bank of Hutchinson. Within the town of Hutchinson he served as justice of the peace from age 21 until 73 excluding only his time in the army. His public service extended also to town clerk, town recorder after incorporation, member and president of city council, state legislature from 1872-1873, member of the State board of equalization for two years under Gov. John Lind, and member and/or president of the board of education.
Additional civic memberships in the community included the Episcopal church, Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic (G A R).
His last message was, "Do not forget to express to all citizens of Hutchinson my highest regard and esteem for their universally kind sympathy and tender charity during my affliction."
Mr. Adams suffered a stroke in 1910 that confined him to his home; later moving to St Luke's hospital in the Spring of 1911. Adams died due to complications from cancer that was mistaken for gall stones at St Luke's Hospital.
Hutchinson Leader, June 16, 1911
Another source notes "although not a member of the home guard did duty with them in the defense of the place" (Hutchinson Stockade in defense of the Sioux attack, Sept, 1862) Alden, Ogle & Company, . Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota, History of Minnesota, Presidents of the United States.. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1888. 544. Print.
and
other sources.
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