Herman H. Adams

Adams, Herman H., a thrifty German, has a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres, all under cultivation, located a mile and a half southeast of Fairfield. Mr. Adams' father came to the United States in 1851, and began farming in Tennessee. The subject of our sketch was the eldest of three children, and was born in Germany in 1839. His early education was confined to the common school teaching in his native land up to the age of eleven, supplemented by another year after emigrating to this country. A helper on his father's farm, he accompanied him to Iowa, where he remained for ten years, then went to Oregon, where he took up a farm. Eight years of labor in that locality satisfied him that he could do better in Washington, to which State he removed in 1881, settling upon his present location. Six children are the result of his union with Miss Moore, of Indiana, whom he married in Iowa in 1866. Like many another of his nationality, Mr. Adams proved his devotion to the flag of his adopted country by enlisting in 1861 in Company K of the Fifteenth Iowa, serving till 1863, when he was honorably discharged. Though actively present at more than one battle of the Civil War, he escaped without a scratch. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Lutheran Church, with as fine a farm and prosperous surroundings as an old soldier could wish to gladden the evening of his days.

SOURCE: Julian Hawthorne, Editor, History Of Washington: The Evergreen State, From Early Dawn To Daylight, Volume 1, p. 484