WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884





Adams, John C., M.D., Lake City, is a native of Ireland, and was born in Iniskillen, in 1831, and is a 
 son of John Adams, who for many years was a prominent merchant of that city. Early in the spring of 
 1841, Mr. Adams with his family emigrated to the United States, and settled on a farm in Kentucky, 
 and for a time engaged in agricultural pursuits. Being unacquainted with, and having a dislike for, the 
 principles of slave labor, he failed to make it a success, sold his farm and removed to Clarksville, 
 Tennessee, where he again embarked in mercantile pursuits. He died in 1850, and his wife, whose 
 maiden name was Alice McCalon, is still living in Russellville, Kentucky. Dr. Adams received an 
 academic education at Clarksville, Tennessee, pursued and completed the classics under a private 
 tutor, and began his professional course with Dr. Williams, of Todd County, Kentucky. He attended 
 lectures at the medical department of the university at Louisville, Kentucky, in its palmy days, when 
 the eminent S. D. Gross and Austin Flint were its professors. After practicing in Kentucky, Texas and 
 Louisiana, he finally graduated from the medical department of the Louisiana University. He then 
 resumed the practice of medicine in Cado Parish, near Shrevesport, Louisiana, and continued the 
 practice, though somewhat obstructed by failing health, till the outbreak of the late war, when he was 
 appointed assistant surgeon of the 30th Miss. regt. This position he filled with credit and ability, and 
 was finally transferred to the position of hospital surgeon, at Newnan, Georgia, and was on duty at 
 Macon, Georgia, at the time of Gen. Lee's surrender. Overwork and ill health has so prostrated him, 
 that in 1868 he determined to seek recuperation in the north, and that year came to Lake City, as 
 rector of the Episcopal church. His theological studies had been pursued under Biship Greene, in 
 Jackson, Mississippi, during his physical inability to practice medicine, and had taken deacons' orders 
 prior to 1861, and priests' orders in 1867. He remained in charge of the Episcopal church till 1872, 
 when his health being unequal to the work, he resigned, and resumed the practice of medicine and 
 surgery, in Lake City and surrounding country. As a surgeon, Dr. Adams has been eminently 
 successful, having performed some very complicated, and, in fact, some of most noted operations 
 known to the profession. He is a member of the Masonic fraternities of Lake City. His first marriage 
 was in 1861, to Miss Hellen Doty, of eastern New York. She died in 1874. His second marriage was 
 on July 1, 1875, to Mrs. Elizabeth O. McNairy, a native of Philadelphia. They have a family of four 
 sons and four daughters.