James R. Adams and Jane Pinkerton

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Husband James R. Adams ¹

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           Born: 1 Jun 1836 - Venango Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1916
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: James Adams, Jr. (1795-1880) 4
         Mother: Eliza McDonald (1799-1884) 2

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       Marriage: 3 Jul 1864 2

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   Other Spouse: Sarah J. Gilmore (1847/1849-1937) 2 - 31 Dec 1867 2

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Wife Jane Pinkerton ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1865 2
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M John E. Adams ²

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           Born: Abt 1864
     Christened: 
           Died: 
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General Notes: Husband - James R. Adams

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He grew to manhood on the home place, within the present limits of Utica, Venango County, Pennsylvania. His early educational advantages embraced the branches taught in the schools of Utica, and later he attended a select school at Salem, Ohio, and the Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburgh, where he completed a business course. He then accepted a position as book-keeper with the firm of Mason & Company, Pittsburgh, but soon severed his connection with this house for the purpose of making a tour of the southern and southwestern states. Returning to Venango County, he engaged in the oil business, but abandoned it a few months later, and in the fall of 1862 entered the army as first lieutenant of an independent company of infantry known as the Keystone Rifles, with which he served for a period of ten months. Before the expiration of his term of service he was elected captain of a volunteer company from the District of Columbia, but on account of poor health was obliged to decline the promotion and returned to his home. For four or five years after quitting the service, Mr. Adams operated a woolen factory in Utica, and in 1869 engaged in farming. In connection with his farming interests he was engaged in the stock business, making a specialty of fine blooded horses. In politics Mr. Adams was originally a Republican, but in later years he was a supporter of the Greenback party. [HVC 1890, 1014]

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Pinkerton

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from Venango Co, PA

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1013.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1014.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 32.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1011, 1012, 1014.