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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
Source:
A Memorial and Biographical History
of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas
Containing the Early History of this important
Section of the great State of Texas, together with
Glimpses of its Future Prospects: also Biographical
Mention of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Citizens
of the Present Time, and Full-page Portraits of some of
the most Eminent Men of this Section
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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements
of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy
to be remembered with pride by remote descendants." -
Macauley
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CHICAGO:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1892.
Publ. Chicago
The Lewis Publishing Company
1892
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JUDGE F. E. ADAMS,
Judge of the Johnson County Court, was born in Jasper
county, Mississippi, Nov. 25, 1847, and was reared
mainly in his native county. He was educated in
the Summerville Institute in Noxubee county,
Mississippi, then presided over by Prof. Thomas S.
Gathright, afterward president of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Bryan, Texas. He left
school at the age of sixteen years, on account of
rheumatism, which disabled him from using his right leg
seven or eight months. He was, when a boy and
young man, engaged at anything he could get to do to
make an honest dollar, and in the meantime also read
law. He was admitted to the bar before the
District Court of Jasper county, Mississippi, at
Paulding, in 1869, and was afterward elected clerk of
the Circuit and Chancery Courts of that county, which he
held about one and a half years, when he was removed by
Military authority as an impediment to reconstruction.
Mr. Adams came to Texas in 1874, and for eighteen
months resided at Dallas, after which in July, 1876, he
came to Johnson county. In 1878 he became Deputy
County Clerk of the County Court, and held that position
until in November, 1880, when he was elected to that
office, which he held by successive re-elections until
November, 1886. At that time he was elected County
Judge and has been re-elected every two years since.
Mr. Adams is a member of the Masonic order, of
the Knights of Honor, and of the Presbyterian church.
Source: A Memorial and Biographical History
of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas - Publ. 1892 - Page
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