The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ncy Adams. The descent ofA. W. Adams of this sketch istraced through James the sonof John, the ancestor, thencethrough Richard, Isaac, Jere-miah, Col. Pliny, and ChaunceyL. Adams.
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ncy Adams. The descent ofA. W. Adams of this sketch istraced through James the sonof John, the ancestor, thencethrough Richard, Isaac, Jere-miah, Col. Pliny, and ChaunceyL. Adams. Jeremiah, the great-grandfather of Allen W., wasborn in Canterbury, Conn., in1732, removed to Canaan, thence toSalisbury, Conn., and finally toPoultney, Vt. Col. Pliny Ad-ams, sou of Jeremiah, was a dis-tinguished member of one of theMasonic Fraternity, and one ofthe original officers of the Ma-sonic Lodge at Poultney, Vt.,and commanded a regiment inthe war of 1812, which was or-dered to Plattsburgh, N. Y., but arrived too lateto participate in the battle at that place. Themother of Allen W. Adams was Lodice Willson,daughter of John Ward Willson, whose mother wasa Ward, and was connected with the same familyfrom which Gen. Ward of the revolution was de-scended. The subject of this sketch, having early inlife lost his father, was carefully reared by his moth-er. His early education was received at Glens Falls. academy. He removed with his mother in,1859 toSan Francisco, Cal., where he ccnnpleted his educa-tion. He returned East in 1866, and began his busi-ness career with Watrous & Willson, lumber mer-chants of New York city. The firm dissolved part-nership in 1880, and Mr. Adams with his brotherand Chas. H. Willson, succeeded to the several years past Mr. Adams has done a largeand successful business, and is known to the mercan-tile comnnmity as a man of the highest integrity anduprightness of character, and has fully maintainedthe reputation of his predecessors.
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