Curtis W. Adams

It so happens that communities, towns, cities, states and even nations are measured morally by the good or evil reputation of their inhabitants. It is an old aphorism, "like king, like people," or "like people, like king," and it does no violence to philosophy to say, "like people, like town," in which respect the city of Bloomfield is peculiarly fortunate. I the course of its history it has become the abiding place of a number of substantial and enterprising men, notable among whom is the wide awake, energetic, and progressive gentleman a brief review of whose career is herewith outlined, a gentleman of ideas as well as actions, whom to know is to esteem and honor and to whom one instinctively turns to find a representative of what is best and most commendable in the typical American of the times.

GEORGE ADAMS, the subject’s father, was born in New Albany, Indiana, and his mother, who bore the name of SARAH FRANCES HOUSTON, was a native of Paris, Kentucky, and a near relative of General SAMUEL HOUSTON, whose influence and leadership did more to emancipate Texas from Mexican rule that that of any other agency. Mrs. Adams sprang from an old Revolutionary family, representatives of which bore prominent parts in every war in which this country had been engaged, and the name became especially prominent in North Carolina, where a member of Mrs. Adam’s ancestors settled in a very early day. GEORGE ADAMS in early life became a steamboat engineer, which calling he followed on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, until the breaking out of the Civil War, when her resigned his position, and entering the Union army served with a creditable record until the close of the struggle. After his discharge he turned his attention to blacksmithing and was thus engaged at various places until his removal to California some years ago, where he is now interested in horticulture, operating a fruit farm near the city of Napa. To GEORGE and SARAH F. Adams five children have been born, all living, the subject being the first in order of birth.

CURTIS W. ADAMS is a native of the Hoosier state and saw first the light of day in the city of Bedford, February 12, 1865. AT the proper age he entered the schools of that place, and after pursuing his studies until acquiring a practical English education, accepted a position in the railway service, to which he devoted the seven ensuing years, rising the meanwhile to the position of conductor of trains. Severing his connection with the road, he accepted and is holding at this time the responsible position of bookkeeper of the Summit Coal Mining Company of Bloomfield, which corporation regards his services indispensable owing to his close application to business, coupled with his superior clerical ability.

As A member of the town board of Bloomfield he has manifested commendable zeal in bringing about much important municipal legislation, and to him as much perhaps as to any other is due the creditable standing the city now enjoys materially and otherwise.

In politics Mr. Adams is a Republican, an as such wields a strong influence for his party, both in local and general affairs, but he has never been a partisan in the sense of seeking office or aspiring to leadership.

On November 4, 1890, Mr. Adams was united in the bonds of wedlock with LITTA LAMB of Bloomfield, daughter of J. T. and MARY (DUGGER) LAMB, the union resulting in the birth of one child, a daughter of the name of JOSEPHINE, who first saw the light of day April 7, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have a beautiful home in Bloomfield which is the abode of a free and generous hospitality, and they move in the best society circles of the city. They are highly esteemed for their many estimable qualities of head and heart and enjoy a popularity second to that of none of their many friends and acquaintances.

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Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. With Reminiscences of Pioneer Days, Illustrated (1908, B. F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, Indiana) Vol. 1 pg. 315-8

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