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Brown County Biographies
From "The Annals of Brown County", Grant Harrington, 1903


George H. Adams.

Geo. H. Adams was born October 9, 1852 at Steubenville, Ohio, and was raised on a farm and educated in a country school. He came to Hiawatha in 1876 and went into the hardware business in partnership with W. H. Woods. This partnership lasted for three years when Mr. Adams bought out his partner and continued the business alone. It grew steadily until it became one of the big businesses of Hiawatha. A furniture department was added to it and as this grew, more room was demanded and in 1895 Mr. Adams erected his present fine furniture room. This building is 50x140 feet with three floors, all devoted to the furniture business. It is finished with steel ceilings and equipped with a hydraulic passenger elevator. The splendid opportunity for a display of goods which such a building affords is abundantly utilized and the large stock of furniture, carpets, etc., carried here draws trade to the city for a radius of forty miles. Two years ago Mr. Adams sold the hardware branch of the business to Mr. Frank Daeschner since which time he has given his whole attention to the furniture trade. He has had an able assistant in Mr. John Sherrett, who has been with the business for the past twenty three years. Mr. Adams has been actively identified with the business Interests of Hiawatha and has always been recognized as one of its leading and most enterprising citizens. He was elected upon the first board of directors of the Academy and has served continuously In that capacity ever since. For six years he was a director In the Kansas Mutual Life Insurance Company. He helped organize the Commercial club and is one of its trustees.

He was interested in the organization of the Hiawatha Electric Light Company and Is the president of the company. For a number of years he has been a director In the Morrill & Janes bank. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, belonging to the Lodge, Chapter and Commandry and has served for three terms as Eminent Commander, of Hiawatha Commandry. No. 13, K. T.





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