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CHARLES LELAND
ADAMS. Among the
active and representative members of the
legal profession in the city of Watertown,
New York, is Charles L. Adams, who
was elected surrogate in November, 1895, and
is still the incumbent of that responsible
position. He was born at Neenah,
Wisconsin, Oct. 19, 1852, a son of
Charles Luther and Amelia Lewis (Leland)
Adams, and on the paternal side was a
descendant of an old and prominent
Connecticut family. His paternal
grandfather, Dr. ____ Adams, was a
well-known and eminent medical practitioner
of Syracuse, New York, and Beloit,
Wisconsin; his maternal grandfather, Ziba
A. Leland, a native of Vermont, and long
a resident of Bath, New York, served as a
member of the assembly and county judge of
Steuben county. Charles Luther
Adams was a native of Syracuse, New
York, became a noted Presbyterian minister,
and was one of the pioneer missionaries to
carry the gospel to the Indians in
Wisconsin, where he died in 1853.
After this sad occurrence his wife and child
made their home with her father, Ziba
A. Leland, at Mechanicsville, New
York.
Charles L. Adams, son of Charles L. and
Amelia L. Adams, graduated from Hamilton
College in the class of 1878, and for
several years thereafter followed the
vocation of teaching. He began the
study of law in the office of John
Lansing, of Watertown, under whose
tutelage he remained until he was admitted
to the Jefferson county bar in 1883, and
from that year until 1895, a period of
twelve years, he was in active practice,
being six years with Senator E. R. Brown
in Watertown. He was appointed city
attorney in 1884, in 1889, and at the
present time (1904) is serving his second
term as surrogate, having first taken the
office Jan. 1, 1896. He is an active and
prominent member of the Presbyterian church,
a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, a charter member of the Lincoln
League, a stanch Republican in politics, and
for two years served as chairman of the
county Republican committee.
Mr. Adams was united in marriage
September 29, 1892, to Charlotte
Grennell, daughter of George J.
and Flavilla Diana Grennell,
and they are the parents of one child,
Leland W. Adams, born June 29, 1894.
*Source: Genealogical & Family History of
Jefferson Co., NY, publ. 1905 - Page 739 |
