History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . other members of churches and societies, George Farr,William H. Compton ^^town clerk^, and nnmenius otheiswhose names are not tecoUected. To all are returned sin-cere thanks. BI0GR.\PH1C.\L SKETCHES. WALES APAMS, the young«t son of Eliakim Adams by hb second wife,was bom the 2d of March, 1S04, in Medway. Norfolk Co., miles frv^m Boiston. His father was aRevolutionary soldier and died in the fall of ISOS, agedfifty-tour years. His mother died soon after.
History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . other members of churches and societies, George Farr,William H. Compton ^^town clerk^, and nnmenius otheiswhose names are not tecoUected. To all are returned sin-cere thanks. BI0GR.\PH1C.\L SKETCHES. WALES APAMS, the young«t son of Eliakim Adams by hb second wife,was bom the 2d of March, 1S04, in Medway. Norfolk Co., miles frv^m Boiston. His father was aRevolutionary soldier and died in the fall of ISOS, agedfifty-tour years. His mother died soon after. His guard-ian, who was a fatherly, philanthropic man, and deacon ofa Presbyterian church, sent him to a country district schoolthree mouths each year, till he was sixteen years of that time (^1S20) till the spring of 1S2S he was en- HISTOIIY OF BRANCH COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 229 pajiod in mechanical employment, most of the lime in ma-ctiinc-shops, coiistnictin;; cotton machinery. FiiiJinf; tliattiio l) to his liealth lie abandoTicd itand wont to New York City, where he lived until tlie 2d. WALES ADAMS. of September, 1S;5(), at which time ho startcil for INIichij^an,and reached Hranch County about the middle of the samemonth. In the winter of IS:)!)-:)], in company with Wil-lard Pierce, they built a sawmill, which was propelled bythe water which meandered along the classic Prairie saw-mill was located cm the west half, northwest quarterof section 29, in town 7 snuth, range S west, in the townof Bronson. Since that time, for more than forty-eightyears, the place he first settled has been his hume. JONATHAN HOLMES. In a volume composed principally of biogralipical sketchesof pioneer families in Peterborough, N. H., mention is madeof Nathaniel Htihnos, the great-grandfather of the gentle-man whose name appears above. He and his wife, Jane(Hunter) Holmes, lived and died in Coleraine, Antrim Co.,Ireland. Tiiey were the parents of five children,
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