History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . n and the Loma Vista Cemetery, and a residenton South Acacia Avenue, Fullerton. He was born at Allendale, Worth County, December 27, 1867, the son of James Adams, who is still living, at the age ofninety-four, in Anaheim, one of the oldest men in Orange County, having been born inMissouri. He married Miss Ruth W. Cowan, who passed away a couple of years ago,also at an advanced a
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . n and the Loma Vista Cemetery, and a residenton South Acacia Avenue, Fullerton. He was born at Allendale, Worth County, December 27, 1867, the son of James Adams, who is still living, at the age ofninety-four, in Anaheim, one of the oldest men in Orange County, having been born inMissouri. He married Miss Ruth W. Cowan, who passed away a couple of years ago,also at an advanced age. Argus went to the Allendale schools, and afterwards attended the normal schoolat Stanberry, in Gentry County, at the same time growing up on his fathers farmwhere he learned to make himself useful. When twenty-two years of age, he startedout to do for himself, and for a while he rented a farm in Missouri. Then he pur-chased 230 acres, which he devoted to general farming. At Grant City, Mo., on January 27, 1892, he was married to Miss Dale Scott,who was born near that town, the daughter of George P. Scott, a farmer who hadmarried Miss Jane Ross. She attended the graded schools near Grant City and grew. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1525 up to be very familiar with Missourian and Middle West life. Six years after his inar-riage, Mr. Adams came out to California for the first time; but after a stay here offifteen months, he returned to Worth County. In 1905, he was back in the Southlandand for a year and a half lived at Anaheim; but once more he journeyed back toWorth County. On January 1, 1912, Mr. and Mrs. Adams came to California to stay, and atFullerton they purchased twenty-three acres on Acacia Street, where thty set outValencia orange trees now eight years old. The land is under the Anaheim UnionWater Company, and Mr. Adams markets through the Fullerton Mutual Orange Grow-ers Association, in which he is also a director. Four children have added joy andcomfort to the lives of
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