JAMES H. McADAMS

MCADAMS, MILLER

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/14/2009 at 20:33:02

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JAMES H. McADAMS, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Unionville; born in Marshall Co., Tenn., April 1823; removed to this county in 1853; owns 280 acres of land valued at $25 per acre. Married Miss Elizabeth E. Miller in 1846; she was born in Marshall Co., Tenn., in 1824. They have seven children - J.C., Eugenia, Antoinette, Ervin A., Luella, Hazeltine, Emma. An old line Whig, now a Republican; members of the Presbyterian Church. Has held the offices of Township Trustee several years, school offices, etc. Member of A.F.&A.M., 119, Unionville. Volunteered in 36th Iowa V.I., but was rejected in State militia previous to that.