Robert H. Adams

ADAMS, THOMPSON

Posted By: Joanne Williams (email)
Date: 7/4/2007 at 15:25:30

Center Township

Adams, Robert H., blacksmith, Tipton; born in Rockbridge Co., Va., July 4, 1817; lived there twenty-four years; learned his trade there; lived in Ohio eighteen months; came to Cedar Co., and arrived in Bloomington (now Muscatine) in April, 1843; came to Tipton on foot and engaged in his present business, and has continued it ever since, and is the oldest mechanic in Tipton. People used to come to him to get their work done from fifteen to twenty miles distant, and he would commence work sometimes at 2 o'clock in the morning. He has worked at his trade forty-three years. When he came here he only had $130, and now, by industry and good management, he owns a farm of 200 acres in Fairfield, besides town property. Never belonged to any church, temperance society, or secret society of any kind. Married Miss Barbara Thompson, from Maryland, Feb. 5, 1846; they have five children -- Robert, Emmet, Hugh, Ella, Kate and Lota.

History of Cedar Co., Iowa, 1879