Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, February 11, 1914
Elmore J. Adams, in his 62nd year, died Wednesday morning at his home, 435 Foulds Avenue, from heart trouble and pneumonia. Mr. Adams had been sick about two weeks and the last few days his condition became manifestly very grave. Members of his family were attending him.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family home, and the body will be taken to Beloit, Wis., for burial.
Masonic funeral services will be conducted. Mr. Adams was a member of Piasa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he had been a past master of the fraternity. He never lost his interest in the order, and was a frequent attendant at the meetings.
He was born in Tecumseh, Mich., and in his early days he became interested in the straw paper making. He began when the industry was in its infancy forty years ago. The last connection he had in a large way with the paper making business was at Peoria, where he put up a very large and expensive mill.
Afterward he engaged in the real estate business. When the strawboard plant was started at Alton he came here, and his son. R. E. Adams, was here during the construction period and for some time after the plant was started.
Mr. Adams is survived by his wife and five children - Mrs. Myrtle Rowe of Ogontz, Pa.; Mrs. C. Chambers of Portland, Ore.; Robert E. Adams of Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. Edward Holtzman of Rockford; and Howard Adams of Peoria.
Elmore J. Adams, in his 62nd year, died Wednesday morning at his home, 435 Foulds Avenue, from heart trouble and pneumonia. Mr. Adams had been sick about two weeks and the last few days his condition became manifestly very grave. Members of his family were attending him.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family home, and the body will be taken to Beloit, Wis., for burial.
Masonic funeral services will be conducted. Mr. Adams was a member of Piasa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he had been a past master of the fraternity. He never lost his interest in the order, and was a frequent attendant at the meetings.
He was born in Tecumseh, Mich., and in his early days he became interested in the straw paper making. He began when the industry was in its infancy forty years ago. The last connection he had in a large way with the paper making business was at Peoria, where he put up a very large and expensive mill.
Afterward he engaged in the real estate business. When the strawboard plant was started at Alton he came here, and his son. R. E. Adams, was here during the construction period and for some time after the plant was started.
Mr. Adams is survived by his wife and five children - Mrs. Myrtle Rowe of Ogontz, Pa.; Mrs. C. Chambers of Portland, Ore.; Robert E. Adams of Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. Edward Holtzman of Rockford; and Howard Adams of Peoria.
Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, February 11, 1914
Elmore J. Adams, in his 62nd year, died Wednesday morning at his home, 435 Foulds Avenue, from heart trouble and pneumonia. Mr. Adams had been sick about two weeks and the last few days his condition became manifestly very grave. Members of his family were attending him.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family home, and the body will be taken to Beloit, Wis., for burial.
Masonic funeral services will be conducted. Mr. Adams was a member of Piasa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he had been a past master of the fraternity. He never lost his interest in the order, and was a frequent attendant at the meetings.
He was born in Tecumseh, Mich., and in his early days he became interested in the straw paper making. He began when the industry was in its infancy forty years ago. The last connection he had in a large way with the paper making business was at Peoria, where he put up a very large and expensive mill.
Afterward he engaged in the real estate business. When the strawboard plant was started at Alton he came here, and his son. R. E. Adams, was here during the construction period and for some time after the plant was started.
Mr. Adams is survived by his wife and five children - Mrs. Myrtle Rowe of Ogontz, Pa.; Mrs. C. Chambers of Portland, Ore.; Robert E. Adams of Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. Edward Holtzman of Rockford; and Howard Adams of Peoria.
Elmore J. Adams, in his 62nd year, died Wednesday morning at his home, 435 Foulds Avenue, from heart trouble and pneumonia. Mr. Adams had been sick about two weeks and the last few days his condition became manifestly very grave. Members of his family were attending him.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the family home, and the body will be taken to Beloit, Wis., for burial.
Masonic funeral services will be conducted. Mr. Adams was a member of Piasa Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he had been a past master of the fraternity. He never lost his interest in the order, and was a frequent attendant at the meetings.
He was born in Tecumseh, Mich., and in his early days he became interested in the straw paper making. He began when the industry was in its infancy forty years ago. The last connection he had in a large way with the paper making business was at Peoria, where he put up a very large and expensive mill.
Afterward he engaged in the real estate business. When the strawboard plant was started at Alton he came here, and his son. R. E. Adams, was here during the construction period and for some time after the plant was started.
Mr. Adams is survived by his wife and five children - Mrs. Myrtle Rowe of Ogontz, Pa.; Mrs. C. Chambers of Portland, Ore.; Robert E. Adams of Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. Edward Holtzman of Rockford; and Howard Adams of Peoria.
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