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Adams, James Osgood (1818-1887)

Name:
Adams, James Osgood (1818-1887)
Title:
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1852, 1853
Secretary, New Hampshire Board of Agriculture
Editor, History of Salisbury, New Hampshire, by John J. Dearborn.
Other Names:
Adams, J. O.
Born:
06/05/1818
Birthplace:
Concord, NH
Died:
02/07/1887
Death Location:
Boscawen, NH
Residence:
Lyndon, VT
Washington, DC
Manchester, NH -- 1860, 1870, 1880 census
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Educator
Printer and Editor, Manchester American, Granite Farmer
including 1872, New Hampshire Agriculture: Second Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture to His Excellency the Governor
Lawyer -- listed as retired lawyer on 1880 Manchester census.
Poet
Father:
Adams, Robert Morrill (1789-1861)
Mother:
Eastman, Damaris (1794-1854)
Relations:
Siblings:
Adams, Ezra Eastman (1813-1871; b. Concord, NH; m2. Frances Mehitable Stevens, daug. of Josiah Stevens; children born in France; d. PA)
Adams, Hannah Osgood (1815-)
Adams, Mary Darling (1821-)
Adams, Benjamin Osgood (1824-)
Adams, John Quincy (1827-)
Adams, Henry Croydon (1827-)
Grandparents: Demarais Darling and Theodore Eastman; Hannah Osgood and Archelaus Adams
Spouse:
(1) Lucy Payson Foster (-1852; b. Manchester, NH), 1851.
(2) El
Children:
children of Eliza Ellen Everett (c.1832-1861):
Adams, Lucy E. (1858-)
Adams, Ezra E. (1860-)
children of Susan A. Everett (c.1833-1873):
Adams, James H. (1863-; b. NH)
Adams, Luella A. (1864-; b. NH)
Adams, Susan B. (aka Susie) (1866-; b. NH)
Adams, Willis E. (1868-; b.NH)
Adams, Alice G. (1871-; b. NH)
Adams, Lewis Willie (1873-; b. NH)
Adopted children of Lizzie R. Smith (c.1845-):
Smith, William O. (c.1865-; b. NH)
Notes:
George T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, From the First Graduation in 1771 to the Present Time... (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1867), 336.

John J. Dearborn, The History of Salisbury, New Hampshire, From Date of Settlement to the Present Time... (Manchester, New Hampshire: William E. Moore, 1890), 443-444.

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