From the "History of Steuben County, Indiana, 1885", page 409 & 410.

George B. Adams, attorney at law, Angola, Ind., was born in Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., N.Y., 
April 18, 1844, a son of Charles H. and Sophia A. (Clark) Adams, his father a native of 
Massachusetts, and his mother of Connecticut.  His father was by trade a millwright, but 
subsequently embarked in land speculation, and acquired a large property.  He was an old-line 
Whig, and a great admirer and personal friend of Henry Clay.  In 1858 he moved to Coldwater, 
Mich., where the mother died in 1867.  He afterward went to New Jersey, and died there in 
1874.  George B. Adams received a good common-school education, and after going to Michigan 
attended the High School at Coldwater.  He served in the late war.  He then returned to 
Coldwater, and in 1866 began the study of law, and so continued for four years at intervals, 
working in the meantime to support himself and two sisters.  In 1870 he came to Angola, and 
for a time thought of abandoning his profession, but changed his mind, and in 1873 was admitted 
to the bar, and has built up a good practice.  He is a strong pleader, and eloquent speaker, 
and his arguments are convincing and have weight with the jury.  He was appointed Prosecuting 
Attorney for Steuben, DeKalb and Noble counties by Governor Williams in 1878, to fill a 
vacancy, and in 1878 was elected, on the Democratic ticket, to the same position.  In 1880 he 
represented his county in the State Democratic Convention, at Indianapolis.  Mr. Adams was 
married in 1876 to Helen Darrah, daughter of Peter Darrah, of Ohio, and to them were born two 
children.  Mrs. Adams died Nov. 18, 1883.  She was a lady of rare intelligence, and had hosts 
of friends to mourn her loss.

Submitted by:  David D. Masterson