. Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois . g the positionof school director. While always interested ineverything pertaining to general progress andimprovement and never remiss in performingthe duties of citizenship he yet gives his at-tention chiefly to his business affairs and thepractical training which he received in earlyboyhood has enabled him to carry forward hisfarming interests with excellent success, sothat he is now a prosperous agriculturist of hisnative township. W. W. ADAMS. \V. W. Adams is the owner of a good farmingproperty covering one hundred acres on section32. Harv
. Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois . g the positionof school director. While always interested ineverything pertaining to general progress andimprovement and never remiss in performingthe duties of citizenship he yet gives his at-tention chiefly to his business affairs and thepractical training which he received in earlyboyhood has enabled him to carry forward hisfarming interests with excellent success, sothat he is now a prosperous agriculturist of hisnative township. W. W. ADAMS. \V. W. Adams is the owner of a good farmingproperty covering one hundred acres on section32. Harvel township, and is accounted one ofthe enterprising business men. having success-fully conducted various business enterprii-esduring the past sixteen years, having the forceof character that enables him to carry forwardto successful completion whatever he under-takes. One of Illinois native sons, his birth oc-curred in Macoupin county on the 28th of Sep-tember. 1836. His father. Giles M. Adams,was born in Kentuokv, where he spent his early «*TT*. W. W. ADAMS v. w ,>s.\ ..? ..,, ??.? /,>..i;v,;,;,,,/* *>\», LIBRARYOF THEPSlTY OF ILLINOIS PAST AND PRESENT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY 321 youth, acquired his education and was after-ward married. He arrived in Illinois in 1829,only eleven years after the admission of thestate into the Union. The central and north-ern portions were then largely wild and un-improved. He settled in Madison county,where he remained but one year. He then wentto Macoupin county, where he has spent manyyears, but during the evening of his life hecrossed the border line into Montgomery coun-ty and resided with his sons during his lateryears. His wife survived him for a few years,but has also passed away. He was familiarwith the pioneer history of this section of thestate, having arrived when much of the prairiewas still in its primitive condition and whenthe forests were uncut. He performed thearduous task of developing a new far
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