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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