Samuel P. Adams

  General Notes:

1850 Arcadia, Wayne, NY
Samuel Adams is age 28; born NY and living in an Inn and working as a clerk.

ADAMS-STRAW. In Arcadia village on 3 Apr by Rev. D[eWitt] C. Tomlinson, Samuel P. Adams of Auburn and Louisa Straw, daughter of L. Straw Esq. (Christian Ambassador, Auburn, 26 Apr 1851)

1860-1870 St. Joseph County, Michigan
Samuel P. Adams 1825 NY
Louisa 1831 NY

1880 Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Michigan
Samuel P. Adams 1823 MA; parents born MA
Louisa S. 1832 NY - father born NH; mother born MA

[From: "Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan, 1885"
Published by Chapman Brothers of Chicago]
The childhood home of Mr. Samuel P. ADAMS was in the vicinity of Rochester, Monroe Co., N. Y., where he was born July 15, 1823. His father, Dr. John ADAMS, was a noted physician and surgeon, and married Miss Sarah PORTER, who, like himself, was a native of Berkshire, Mass. The family is an old and highly respected one, of English extraction, and was first represented on this side of the Atlantic probably during the Colonial days.The parents of our subject after their marriage, leaving New England, settled in Henrietta, N. Y., but two years later removed to Lyons, in Wayne County, where the father followed the practice of his profession many years, and where he spent his profession many years, and where he spent his declining years; the mother is also deceased.
Samuel P., our subject, was the eldest born. He attended the common schools at Lyons, and later became a clerk in a general store, which occupation he followed about four years. After this he engaged as a contractor for canals, railroads, bridges, and other public works, until making up his mind to settle in the farther West. He was married in Newark, N. Y., in 1857, to Senesa [Louisa?], daughter of Liberty and Lucy STRAW; she was born in New York in 1831.

Samuel married Louisa Straw, daughter of Liberty Newton Straw and Lucy Phillips, on 3 Apr 1857 in Newark, Wayne County, New York. (Louisa Straw was born in 1831 in New York and died after 1880.)

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