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rect conclusions. Fearless in the discharge of his duties, clear and incisive in his state- ments of legal propositions and prompt in his rulings, his conduct of the business of the court over which he presides commends him to lawyers and litigants alike, and a demeanor always as courteous as it is dignified is a charming characteristic of his judicial mien. He is a Presbyterian churchman, and has been identified with the most prominent clubs of St. Louis in a social way. Ile married, in 1870, Miss Emma U. Richmond, like himself a native of Vermont, Woodstock having been the place of her birth.
Adams, George, physician, was born February 22, 1865, in Richland County, Illi- nois, son of Dr. John E. and Martha (Snyder) Adams. The elder Dr. Adams removed to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in the year 1878, and for twenty years thereafter was one of the prominent medical practitioners of that por- tion of the State. Dr. George Adams, the son, was born to the inheritance of a fondness for the medical profession, and all his early train- ing was conducive to the development of his natural tastes. From early boyhood he passed much of his time in his father's office, and it never occurred to him that he should be anything else than a doctor when he grew to manhood. As a natural consequence, his ed- ucation was designed to fit him for this calling, and the lines followed all tended in this direc- tion. After completing his academic educa- tion, he matriculated in Missouri Medical Col- lege of St. Louis, and was graduated from that institution with high honors at the age of twenty years and in the class of 1885. Imme- diately after his graduation from the medical college, he returned to Poplar Bluffs and be - gan the practice of the profession for which he had so well fitted himself, as an associate of his father. Within a short time thereafter the elder Dr. Adams retired from active profes- sional labor and turned over to his son the large practice which he had built up, and which, for a time, they had continued together. Since then Dr. George Adams has been one of the most active and successful practitioners of southeast Missouri, and is recognized, both by his professional brethren and the general public, as a physician of superior attainments, high character and conscientious devotion to his calling. A member of the Republican party, he has at times taken a somewhat active
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interest in politics, and has served as chair- man of the Republican County Central Com- mittee of Butler County. He was also put forward at one time as the candidate of his party for representative in the General Assem- bly from that county, but the Democrats being largely in the majority, he was defeated. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, holding membership with the lodge of that order at Texarkana, Arkansas. In February of 1886 Dr. Adams married Miss Lizzie Ferguson, who belongs to one of the prominent families of Butler County, Mis- souri. Their children are. Roscoe, Charles and Clara Adams.
Adams, George C., who was for more than a decade one of the leading ministers of St. Louis, was born and reared in New Eng- land, and was graduated from Amherst Col- lege. Ile then came west and filled pastorates at Hillsboro and Alton, Illinois, until 1881. In that year he came to St. Louis as pastor of Tabernacle Congregational Church, and later was pastor of Compton Hill Church, of the same denomination, until 1896, when he accepted a call to one of the leading Congre- gational churches of San Francisco, Califor- nia.
Adams, Robert, Jr., lawyer and mem- ber of the bar of Kansas City, is a native of the State of New York. In young manhood he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent some time in literary studies. He afterward acquired considerable knowledge of law in the office of a relative, Emory A. Storrs, for many years one of the most conspicuous lawyers at the Illinois bar. Upon the opening of the Civil War he entered the Twenty-third Regi- ment Illinois Volunteers, in which he served as captain of Company C. With his regiment, commanded by Colonel Mulligan, he partici- pated in the battle of Lexington, Missouri. In 1862 he was commissioned assistant adju- tant general, with the rank of captain, but had the unique experience of performing no serv- ice in his department of the staff corps, being immediately assigned, by a special order of Secretary of War Stanton, to duty in the judge advocate general's department, in which he served until the close of the war. His first duty was in the Department of West Virginia, on the staff of General Crook : and afterward in Louisiana, on the staff of General Sheridan.
He accompanied the last named officer to the Rio Grande River, where was massed an American Army on account of the French in- trigues in Mexico, and he was not mustered out of service until 1867, when the emergency had passed. While stationed at Wheeling, West Virginia, he was admitted to the bar, and immediately upon leaving the army he located at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and en- tered upon the practice of his profession. In 1875 he was appointed an attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and he sustained that relation with it for more than twenty-two years, his duties calling him at various times to all portions of the country traversed by the Western Division of the road. In 1897 he relinquished his position with the company, since which time he has carried on a general practice. Captain Adams holds membership with the Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and with Farragut-Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He married, in October, 1864, Miss Josephine Magill, of Westmore- land County, Pennsylvania. Politically Mr. Adams has always been a Republican.
Adams, Washington, lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri, was born in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1814, and died at Boonville, Missouri, May 7, 1883. He came to Missouri about 1838, and located at Boonville. His talents and learning brought him into prominence, even among the bril- liant lawyers and publie men at that time com- posing the bar of central Missouri, and he took rank with the best of them. In 1871 he was appointed by Governor Brown, judge of the Supreme Court of the State in place of Warren Currier, who resigned. At the fol- lowing election, in 1872, he was elected to fill out the term. He held the position until 1874. when he resigned. In 1875 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and took a full part in the work of framing the Constitution of 1875.
Adams, Washington, lawyer, was born in Boonville, Missouri. April 16, 1849. His mother was Sarah Flournoy. of Independence, and his father. Andrew Adams, who was known as an enterprising Santa Fe trader, who penetrated Mexico as far as Chihuahua, was usually successful and acquired a competency. so that he retired to spend his old age in peace
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and ease. He had nine children, six of whom were living in 1900. Washington Adams, the uncle of our subject, was one of Missouri's great lawyers, and was, for many years, a judge of the Supreme Court of this State. His mother was the sister of Chief Justice Boyle, of Kentucky. After taking a preparatory course at Kemper School, at Boonville, the younger Washington Adams entered the Uni- versity of Virginia. He graduated from part of its literary course, and also from the junior course in law, in 1869. Returning then to Boonville, hie read law for a year in the office of his uncle, Judge Washington Adams, and was admitted to the bar. He went to Kansas City in 1870, and established a good practice. In 1874 and 1875 he was elected city attorney. He was twice appointed city counselor, first in 1880, and again in 1884. The county court appointed him county counselor in January, I891, and he was reappointed two years later. Politically he is a sound-money Democrat. As a member of the bar he is well grounded in the principles of the law, and as an all-around lawyer takes high rank in the profession in Kansas City. For years he has enjoyed a large practice in the Federal courts. On June 5, 1877, he was married to Miss Ella B. Lin- coln, of Plattsburg, she being a daughter of John K. Lincoln, a prominent farmer of Clin- ton County, and a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln. They have but one child, a son, John W., a graduate of the Kansas City High School, class of 1900, who expects to enter Harvard University.
Adams, William Brown, physician, was born October 28, 1818, at Florissant, Mis- souri, son of Burwell B. and Harriet (Allen) Adams. His grandfather, William Adams, removed from Virginia to Missouri, and was one of the pioneers who helped to lay the foundation of the present Commonwealth. Burwell B. Adams was born in Virginia, in 1794, and died in Danville, Missouri, in 1876. He was a man of sterling integrity and re- markable strength of character. During the War of 1812 he served in the Patriot Army. in the company commanded by Captain (after- ward Judge) Beverly Tucker. In 1816 he came to Missouri with his old commander, and for some years afterward was in his em- ploy. For several years he lived near Pond Fort, in St. Charles County, removing from there to Franklin County, in 1823, and in 1844
to Montgomery County. Dr. William B. Adams was of an inquiring turn of mind from his youth up, and was never quite satisfied to accept any statement as correct until he had satisfied himself beyond doubt that it should be so accepted. Ilis friends used to relate, as an amusing instance of this disposition on his part, an incident of his early boyhood. His father returned one day from a camp meeting, which was being held in the neighborhood of their home, and announced his conversion and his determination to live thereafter a religious life. The boy was told by his mother that his father was going to be a good man, and that he would not hear him swear any more, pro- fanity having theretofore been one of the weaknesses of the elder Adams. This state- ment the youth took with some grains of al- lowance, and when, on the following day, his father began plowing a piece of new land. he resolved to follow him and note the character of his remarks when provoked by such diffi- culties as he knew would be encountered. All day he followed the elder Adams, but not a single oath did he hear, and the result was that he was fully convinced that a man who could plow around stumps and roots such as the farmers of that day and region had to contend with, without swearing, must have experienced a great change of heart. The mother of Dr. Adams was a daughter of John Allen, who came from Connecticut, and was also a Missouri pioneer. In the early settle- ment in which they lived she was the only woman whom Dr. Adams remembered who was not a tobacco smoker. Dr. Adams passed his boyhood in Franklin County, and all his early recollections were of pioneer life. His home was a log cabin, and liis sleeping room was the cabin loft, into which the snow sifted in winter time, and the sunshine crept through cracks in the roof and walls in the summer time. Much of his boyhood was spent in as- sisting his mother, and many evenings were passed in picking over the cotton which at that time was grown in considerable quantities in Franklin County. He obtained his rudi- mentary education in the common schools of Franklin County, and when nineteen years of age entered Marion College. After spending two and a half years at this institution, he be- gan the study of medicine in the office of Dr. J. I. T. McIlroy, who was then the leading physician of Ralls County, Missouri. In 1844 he entered McDowell Medical College of St.
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Louis, and was graduated with the first class sent out from that institution, in 1846. After completing his medical studies he located at Danville, Missouri, and practiced there until 1881. In that year he removed to Montgom- ery County, where he has since resided. Not- withstanding the fact that his ancestors came from one of the old slave States, and he him- self lived in a slave State up to the time the institution of slavery passed out of existence, he was opposed to slavery, and when the Re- publican party was organized he became an active member of the new party. When the issues of the Civil War period arrayed Missou- rians against each other he was compelled for a time to leave Montgomery County, his life being endangered on account of his pro- nounced loyalty and devotion to the Union. During the early part of the war he was ex- amining physician in connection with the en- rollment of Union volunteers, and later was appointed a member of the Board of Enroll- ment for the Ninth Congressional District. Still later he became provost marshal for the district, with headquarters first at Mexico, Missouri, and afterward at St. Charles. In 1864 he was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention, called to revise the organic law of the State and place its govern- ment under the control of its loyal citizens. After the war he was elected a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from Montgomery County, and in 1866 was chosen a member of the State Senate to represent the district composed of Pike, Montgomery and Lincoln Counties. During this troublous period, and also during the war period, he was noted for his fearlessness in giving expression to his sentiments and convictions, and in championing the cause of national supremacy and the preservation of the Union. He be- came a member of the Presbyterian Church in early life, and a member of the Masonic order. February 17, 1852, Dr. Adams married Miss Susan Bass Drury, daughter of Charles John- ston and Sallie Ann (Wiseman) Drury. Mrs. Ad- ams' father first settled in Loutre Lick, where he engaged in merchandising. He removed to Danville, Missouri, in 1834, and there opened, in a log house, the first store in the place. Susan B. (Drury) Adams was the first child born in Danville, Missouri, and was the great- great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles John- ston. who, with eleven men, captured, at the battle of Bennington, Vermont, a company of
British soldiers. The sword carried by the Captain of that British company is still in pos- session of Colonel Johnston's descendants, and was exhibited at the centennial anniversary of the battle of Bennington. The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Adams were Charles Johnston Drury Adams, Julia A. Adams, who married S. P. Fish ; Mary Hope Adams, Leigh Hunt Adams, William Brown Adams, Jr., and Ernest Raymond Adams.
Adams, W. C., was born March 13, 1836, within two miles of his present home, at Ath- erton, Jackson County, Missouri. His par- ents were Lynchburg and Elizabeth Adams, the first born near Lynchburg, Virginia, and the latter born in Missouri. The parents of Lynchburg Adams, with eight children, re- moved, in 1820, to Missouri, and made their home at Fort Osage, on the site of the present town of Sibley. The son, W. C., attended a subscription school until he was seventeen years of age, and then took courses in Chapel Hill College, and William Jewell College, at Liberty. His studies in the latter institution ceased with its close on account of the Kansas border troubles. He spent two succeeding years upon the home farm, and again entered Chapel Hill College, in which he was a student until its suspension. For eleven months he taught school, a part of the time near Lee's Summit. At the beginning of the Civil War he entered the Confederate Army, and served until the surrender under the command of Gen- erals Price, Bragg, Johnson, Beauregard and Hood, holding the rank first of first lieutenant, and then of captain. He was twice wounded in action, and was twice made prisoner; ten months of his imprisonment were passed at Johnson's Island. He was originally a Dem- ocrat, and acted with that party until 1876, when he voted for Peter Cooper. In 1880 he affiliated with the Greenback party, and was elected to the General Assembly, where his service was distinguished by high ability and sincerity of purpose. He has always been an earnest advocate of popular education, and during the greater part of his later life has served as a school director, and as president of the School Board. He is a consistent mein- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Ilis interest in agriculture led him to early membership in the Grange and the Farmers' Alliance, and his zeal and ability gave him prominence as a leader in both these orders.
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He was married, in April, 1868, to Miss Jane Herd, a daughter of Jesse Herd. Four chil- dren were born of this marriage, Edward L., Susan E., Dora M., and Charles F. Adams. His wife having died, in 18844 he married Mrs. Fannie Jepson. Six children were born of this marriage, Jessie H., James W., Mary H., John Q., Pauline Ruth and George Carroll Adams. Captain Adams is highly esteemed for his many good qualities, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the excellent com- munity in which he has passed his life. While his effort has been constantly given to farm- ing, he is a man of studious habits, and his mind is richly stored with information derived from close and intelligent application to the works of the best authors, as well as to the narrative of current events.
Administration. - The settling up or management of the estate of a deceased person. It may be done by an executor named in the will of the deceased person, or by an administrator appointed by the probate court, where there is no will. Their duties are sim- ilar, and consist in the collecting of debts due to the estate, the payment of debts owed by the estate and legacies, and the distribution of property among the heirs. The Missouri law on the subject of administration is com- prehensive and minute. If there is a will it must be subjected to the probate court and proved. Then follows a public notice to cred- itors, whose claims must be presented in two years ; the inventory of all property, real and personal, belonging to the deceased at the time of his death, and the appraisement of the per- sonal property, made by three disinterested householders-the inventory and appraise- ment to be filed in the clerk's office of the pro- bate court within sixty days from the granting of letters of administration. Perishable prop- erty must be sold, and other personal property also, if need be, and all debts and legacies paid. Executors and administrators are required to make annual settlements until the estate is finally settled, and when all the available assets of the estate have been collected, and all debts paid, a final settlement should be made, pre- vious notice of which must have been given in a newspaper. If there be minor children, and guardians are appointed, they, also. must make annual settlements until the ward is twenty-one years of age, or, if a female, umtil she is eighteen years of age, or marries, when
the guardian makes final settlement and is discharged.
Administrator .- An official appointed by a probate court to administer on the estate of a person who dies intestate; that is, with- out leaving a will. The administrator thus appointed is usually some one interested in the estate, the widow, or husband, or son, or near relative of the deceased. If a woman, she is called administratrix. The difference between an administrator and an executor is that the former is appointed by the probate court, and distributes the estate according to the laws of the State ; the latter is appointed by the will of the deceased person, and distributes the estate according to the will.
Administrator, Public .- A county (in St. Louis city) official who has charge of the settlement of all estates where there is no will with an executor named, and of estates in which no person entitled to the privilege ap- plies for the administration.
Adreon, Edward Lawrence, manu- facturer and ex-city comptroller of St. Louis. was born in that city, December 23, 1847, son of Dr. Stephen W. Adreon. He was reared in the city and educated at Wyman's City University, in its day the leading private edu- cational institution of St. Louis. After leav- ing school he was appointed to a position in the office of the city comptroller, where his merits gained for him promotion, from time to time, through six successive administrations of varying politics. At the end of that time his thorough knowledge of all the affairs of the comptroller's office and his eminent fit - ness for the position caused him to be nomi- nated on the Republican ticket for city comp- troller, and at the ensuing election he was chosen to that office. Entering upon the dis- charge of his duties in this connection, in 1877, he was re-elected at the end of his first term, and served, in all, eight years at the head of one of the most important departments of the city government. His connection with this department, which he entered originally for one month "on trial," covered in all a period of twenty years, and when he retired to private life he had made an enviable recor. 1. not only for the integrity of his conduct as a public official, but for his ability as a finan- cier. Soon after the close of his term of office
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as city comptroller, he was made manager of the American Brake Company, and when the plant which had been established by this cor- poration was leased to the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, he became manager for the lessors and the representative of both corpora- tions in St. Louis. He has since been no less prominent and popular as a business man than he had previously been as a public official. In fraternal circles Mr. Adreon is well known as a member of the Masonic order, the Legion of Honor and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. December 23, 1871, he married Miss Josephine L. Young, of St. Louis. Their children are Edward L. Adreon, Jr., Josephine M. Adreon and Robert E. Adreon.
Adrian. - A city of the fourth class, in Bates County, on the Lexington & Southern Division of the Missouri Pacific Railway, ten miles north of Butler, the county seat. It has a public school, employing five teachers ; an independent newspaper, the "Journal"; a bank. a steam flouring mill and an elevator. In the vicinity are churches of the Baptist, Christian, Dunkard, Methodist and United Brethren denominations. In 1899 the popu- lation was 1,000.
Adventists. - A sect founded by William Miller, originally a Green Mountain farmer, who in 1831 began preaching that Christ's second coming and the end of the world were at hand. He predicted that some time be- tween the 21st of March, 1843, and the 21st of March, 1844, Jesus Christ would appear in person to judge the world. Multitudes pressed to hear him preach everywhere, and the excite- ment culminated in October of 1844, when thousands of people gathered themselves to- gether in different places to await Christ's coming. They were disappointed, but, al- though it was demonstrated that a mistake had been made in fixing a date for the second advent, many continued to believe that they were "living in the last days," and that "the end of the world was at hand." A conven- tion of Miller's followers was called in 1845, at which a declaration of faith was agreed upon and the name "Adventists" was adopted. Since then they have become known as "Sev- enth Day Adventists" on account of their ob- servance of the seventh day of the week. or Saturday, as the Christian Sabbath. The "Adventists' Christian Association and Gen-
eral Conference of America" was organized in 1860, and in 1898 fifteen hundred ministers were preaching the doctrines of the church under its auspices, and church organizations were in existence in every part of the United States. There was at that time one church of this faith, with a membership of 121, in St. Louis, and the number of Adventists in the State of Missouri was estimated at 1,700. The church in St. Louis worships in a com- fortable edifice at 2955 Garrison Avenue.
Ageney .- An incorporated town in Buch- anan County, on the Santa Fe Railroad, platted by William B. Smith, in 1865. Its population is 400, and it contains a bank, two mills, six general stores, churches, etc.
Agency Ford. - A shallow ford over the Platte River, where the road from Clay County to Blacksnake Hills crossed. Andrew S. Hughes, Indian agent to the Sacs and Foxes, conducted his business with the In- dians at this point.
Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege .- This institution, called also the Col- lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, is a department of the State University, at Colum- bia (which see). It was established, in 1870, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, approved July 2. 1862, making a grant of lands to the State of Missouri for educational purposes. The statutes fix the status of the institution as one of the colleges of the State University. The people of Boone County donated to the institution 640 acres of land adjoining the University campus and $30,000 in cash. An experiment station is connected with the college of agriculture, which is devoted to orig- inal research and demonstration in agricu !- ture, veterinary science, horticulture, entomol- ogy, chemistry and botany, which has been of great value to the agricultural industries of the State.
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