GALESBURG, Mich., March 18.-(Special.)—George Rodney Crittenden Adams, who died Tuesday morning, was born in Chatham, Columbia county, N. Y., August 16 1816, and had he lived would have reached the age of 78 years.
When he was 3 years of age his parent, removed to Erie county, N. Y, Thence in 1836 to Lyons, in the same state. In 1840 the deceased migrated to Ohio.
While in Ohio, October 8, 1843 he married Henrietta Olin, who survives in an honored old age.
While residing in Ohio, Mr. Adams acquired his first property.
Later, his father having died, he returned to Lyons, and having purchased the interest of the other heirs in the family homestead, continued to reside there until 1862, when he came to Michigan and purchased the farm in Comstock township which war, until recently, his home.
In 1866, four years after arriving here, he was elected supervisor of the township, serving one term. Subsequently he was again elected and served by continuous reelection from 1873 to 1883, a period of ten years.
The deceased was at one time a prominent candidate for the Republican legislative nomination. During his last illness his every desire, whether expressed or imagined by loving solicitude, was assiduously gratified by his resident children. Mrs. Darwin I. Russell and Mrs. O. A. Towne aided by other relatives and friends. Besides these daughters, one son, Milo B. of Sioux City, Iowa, survives. A brother of Mr. Adams, a practicing lawyer, residing in Buffalo, N. Y. Both of the brothers, with their wives have celebrated their golden wedding and the subject of this sketch is the first of the quartet to answer the final call.
Mr. Adams was a member of the Masonic fraternity and by his marriage became a member of the great Olin reunion association, of which he was the first president.
His life was insured for a considerable amount, mostly In Masonic associations.
Milo B. Adams, son of the deceased, arrived from Iowa at 9 o'clock Monday evening, thus completing the family group, which surrounded the dying man. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph march 18,1896 page 2
When he was 3 years of age his parent, removed to Erie county, N. Y, Thence in 1836 to Lyons, in the same state. In 1840 the deceased migrated to Ohio.
While in Ohio, October 8, 1843 he married Henrietta Olin, who survives in an honored old age.
While residing in Ohio, Mr. Adams acquired his first property.
Later, his father having died, he returned to Lyons, and having purchased the interest of the other heirs in the family homestead, continued to reside there until 1862, when he came to Michigan and purchased the farm in Comstock township which war, until recently, his home.
In 1866, four years after arriving here, he was elected supervisor of the township, serving one term. Subsequently he was again elected and served by continuous reelection from 1873 to 1883, a period of ten years.
The deceased was at one time a prominent candidate for the Republican legislative nomination. During his last illness his every desire, whether expressed or imagined by loving solicitude, was assiduously gratified by his resident children. Mrs. Darwin I. Russell and Mrs. O. A. Towne aided by other relatives and friends. Besides these daughters, one son, Milo B. of Sioux City, Iowa, survives. A brother of Mr. Adams, a practicing lawyer, residing in Buffalo, N. Y. Both of the brothers, with their wives have celebrated their golden wedding and the subject of this sketch is the first of the quartet to answer the final call.
Mr. Adams was a member of the Masonic fraternity and by his marriage became a member of the great Olin reunion association, of which he was the first president.
His life was insured for a considerable amount, mostly In Masonic associations.
Milo B. Adams, son of the deceased, arrived from Iowa at 9 o'clock Monday evening, thus completing the family group, which surrounded the dying man. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph march 18,1896 page 2
GALESBURG, Mich., March 18.-(Special.)—George Rodney Crittenden Adams, who died Tuesday morning, was born in Chatham, Columbia county, N. Y., August 16 1816, and had he lived would have reached the age of 78 years.
When he was 3 years of age his parent, removed to Erie county, N. Y, Thence in 1836 to Lyons, in the same state. In 1840 the deceased migrated to Ohio.
While in Ohio, October 8, 1843 he married Henrietta Olin, who survives in an honored old age.
While residing in Ohio, Mr. Adams acquired his first property.
Later, his father having died, he returned to Lyons, and having purchased the interest of the other heirs in the family homestead, continued to reside there until 1862, when he came to Michigan and purchased the farm in Comstock township which war, until recently, his home.
In 1866, four years after arriving here, he was elected supervisor of the township, serving one term. Subsequently he was again elected and served by continuous reelection from 1873 to 1883, a period of ten years.
The deceased was at one time a prominent candidate for the Republican legislative nomination. During his last illness his every desire, whether expressed or imagined by loving solicitude, was assiduously gratified by his resident children. Mrs. Darwin I. Russell and Mrs. O. A. Towne aided by other relatives and friends. Besides these daughters, one son, Milo B. of Sioux City, Iowa, survives. A brother of Mr. Adams, a practicing lawyer, residing in Buffalo, N. Y. Both of the brothers, with their wives have celebrated their golden wedding and the subject of this sketch is the first of the quartet to answer the final call.
Mr. Adams was a member of the Masonic fraternity and by his marriage became a member of the great Olin reunion association, of which he was the first president.
His life was insured for a considerable amount, mostly In Masonic associations.
Milo B. Adams, son of the deceased, arrived from Iowa at 9 o'clock Monday evening, thus completing the family group, which surrounded the dying man. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph march 18,1896 page 2
When he was 3 years of age his parent, removed to Erie county, N. Y, Thence in 1836 to Lyons, in the same state. In 1840 the deceased migrated to Ohio.
While in Ohio, October 8, 1843 he married Henrietta Olin, who survives in an honored old age.
While residing in Ohio, Mr. Adams acquired his first property.
Later, his father having died, he returned to Lyons, and having purchased the interest of the other heirs in the family homestead, continued to reside there until 1862, when he came to Michigan and purchased the farm in Comstock township which war, until recently, his home.
In 1866, four years after arriving here, he was elected supervisor of the township, serving one term. Subsequently he was again elected and served by continuous reelection from 1873 to 1883, a period of ten years.
The deceased was at one time a prominent candidate for the Republican legislative nomination. During his last illness his every desire, whether expressed or imagined by loving solicitude, was assiduously gratified by his resident children. Mrs. Darwin I. Russell and Mrs. O. A. Towne aided by other relatives and friends. Besides these daughters, one son, Milo B. of Sioux City, Iowa, survives. A brother of Mr. Adams, a practicing lawyer, residing in Buffalo, N. Y. Both of the brothers, with their wives have celebrated their golden wedding and the subject of this sketch is the first of the quartet to answer the final call.
Mr. Adams was a member of the Masonic fraternity and by his marriage became a member of the great Olin reunion association, of which he was the first president.
His life was insured for a considerable amount, mostly In Masonic associations.
Milo B. Adams, son of the deceased, arrived from Iowa at 9 o'clock Monday evening, thus completing the family group, which surrounded the dying man. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph march 18,1896 page 2
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