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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1763
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF SHELBY AND MOULTRIE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
of the Counties,
Together with Biographies of all the
Governors of the State, and of the Presidents
of the United States
Chicago.
Biographical Publishing Co.
1891
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EPHRAIM ADAMSON,
a highly respected farmer residing in Moweaqua Township,
Shelby County, was born in Centre County, Pa., Jan. 22,
1839. James Adamson was his father's name, and
he was a native of the same county, born in 1811. He
was a son of one William Adamson, who was a native of
Spain. In early life he came to this country and
settled in Pennsylvania, where he spent his remaining years
in Centre County. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
He married a Scotch lady.
James Adamson was reared to man's estate in his
Pennsylvania birthplace. He went to Mifflin County,
Ill., his native State, when he was a young man, and was
there married to Nancy Ely, a native of Franklin
County, Pa., born in 1814, and a daughter of John Ely,
who was also a Pennsylvanian by birth. The father of
our subject purchased a tract of land in Centre County after
his marriage, and lived thereupon several years. In
1839 he removed to Huntingdon County, in the same State, and
was a resident there for many years. His next move was
to Ohio in 1861, and he located in Guernsey County, where he
lived until after the death of his wife in 1867. He
then made his home with his children, and died in Centre
County, Pa., in August, 1882. The following are the
names of his children: David, Elizabeth, Ephraim,
Mary Jane, Isaac, Rebecca, Emma, John, Priscilla, Jemima
and Nannie.
He of whom this sketch is principally written early
acquired a knowledge of agriculture on his father's
farm. He accompanied his parents to their new home in
Ohio in 1861, and lived in Guernsey County until 1863.
In that year he gave up his personal aims and ambitions to
do his duty to his country as a patriotic citizen by helping
to suppress the great rebellion that was then waging in the
South, enlisting December 14 in an independent company.
He was sent with his comrades to Washington D. C., to do
garrison work, and in 1864 served as body guard to
President Lincoln. He was in Washington at the
time of the assassination of the Chief Magistrate of the
Nation, and was also at the Capital during the Grand Review,
in which he took part. He was discharged from the army
with his company Sept. 11, 1865, and returned to Ohio,
having gained a good military record for faithfulness and
efficiency in whatsoever he was called upon to do while he
was a soldier.
After he left the army Mr. Adamson drove a
huckster's wagon in Cambridge from that time until 1868,
when he left the Buckeye State to take up his residence in
Illinois. He settled in Moweaqua Township, and two
years later devoted some of his money to the purchase of
forty acres of land. He subsequently bought more
realty until he had one hundred and twenty acres of
land, and he dwelt thereon twenty years. At the
expiration of that time he disposed of that place and rented
the adjoining farm, where he now resides. He also has
farming interests in Nebraska, owning a good farm in
Nuckolls County, that State.
In 1867 Mr. Adamson took unto himself a wife,
marrying Miss Josephine Scoot, a native of Guernsey
County, Ohio. They have eight children living:
James, David, George, Oscar, Mary, Nannie, Edwin and
Ida.
As a veteran of the late war our subject is an
honored member of J. V. Clemins Post, No. 363, G. A.
R. He and his wife are among the most worthy
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and among their
neighbors they are held in high estimation for their many
excellent qualities of head and heart.
Source: Portrait and Biographical History of Shelby
and Moultrie Counties, Illinois - Publ. Brink, McDonough &
Co., 1891 - Page 414 |
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