BIOGRAPHY

PARMENIO ADAMS - OF ALEXANDER, NY

Parmenio Adams
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Parmenio Adams (September 9, 1776, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut – February 19, 1832, Alexander, Genesee County, New York) was a from New York.

Life: He was the son of Parmenio Adams (1747/8-1809) and Chloe (Nearing) Adams (b. ca. 1754). On October 23, 1795, he married Eleanor Wells (1778-1836) and they had four children.

In 1806, the family removed to Phelps Corners, to a place now located in that part of the Village of Attica which lies in the Town of Alexander, and remained in Genesee County after the creation of Wyoming County in 1841.

He fought in the War of 1812, and retired as a major of the New York State Militia in 1816. He was Sheriff of Genesee Count from 1815 to 1816 and from 1818 to 1821. He ran a gristmill and was a construction contractor on the Erie Canal.

At the United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1822, Isaac Wilson was declared elected in the 29th District by a small margin. Adams contested Wilson's election, showing that the returns had been certified mistakenly, and Adams was seated in the 18th United States Congress as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican on January 7, 1824. Adams was re-elected as an Adams man to the 19th United States Congress, holding office until March 3, 1827.

He buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in the Town of Attica, now in Wyoming County.

Sources
Parmenio Adams at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71 and 400; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Obit transcribed at Ancestry.com
Adams genealogy at RootsWeb
Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834 compiled by Matthew St. Clair Clarke and David A. Hall (Washington, D.C., 1834; Case XLIX, pages 369ff)