Excerpt from History of Dane Country: Biographical and Genealogical

Hon. Henry Cullen Adams, congressman from the second dis triet, was a typical example of the kind of man to whom Americans are fond of referring as a natural result of peculiarly American ih stitutions. He was a native of Verona, Oneida county, N. Y., and was born November 28, 1850. His parents, B. F. And caroline-m. (shepherd) Adams were also natives of the same place. He was' one of the line from which President John Adams sprung. His father, Benjamin Franklin Adams, was a graduate of Hamilton College, New York. While in Hamilton College the elder Adams was a charter member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and, as principal of an academy at Oneida, N. Y., was instructor of the late B. J. Stevens of Madison. His mother was Eunice Webster a first cousin of Noah Webster of-dictionary fame and Mr. Webster was a frequent caller at the Adams home. The family came west in the early fifties settling at Beaver Dam, then coming to Liberty Prairie, near Madison. The father died in 1902, the mother some years before. They were carried to Wisconsin by the tide of im migration which swept westward about the time of his birth. And he became a resident of Jefferson county at the age of six months. In that county and in Dane he spent his boyhood years, supple menting his instruction at the district schools with the more prac tical knowledge of farm life in all its details, which knowledge be came in later years the instrument which led to his political pre ferment. His later achievements, if they formed a part of his plan of life, were to have been reached by other means, and his early efforts were all directed toward advancement through the usual methods of scholarly attainments. His first academic work was done at Albion Academy, Dane county, in 1868; the following year he entered the University of Wisconsin, but after two years of study he was compelled on account of failing health to give up his work; and a second attempt to complete his collegiate course. Even after a three years' rest. Resulted in a second physical breakdown. In spite of these discouragements he subsequently read law in the offices of Nathaniel W. Dean and Gregory Pinney. In 1875.

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