WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

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







Adams, William T., M.D.,son of Samuel and Mary A. Adams, was born in the town of Lee, Oneida 
 county, New York, August 7, 1849. Up to his thirteenth year the subject of this sketch attended the 
 district schools in his native county, when he entered the high school at Utica, New York, where he 
 remained two years. In October, 1864, the doctor's parents removed to Plainview, Minnesota, and he 
 followed them to that place in June, 1865. From this time until 1869 the doctor worked with his father 
 at the printer's trade, attending school part of the time winters. During the summer of 1870 our subject 
 taught school in what is known as the Jerry Baldwin district, northeast of the village of Plainview. In 
 September of the same year the doctor entered Carleton College, at Northfield, Minnesota, where he 
 remained during the fall and winter. The doctor had heretofore determined to study medicine, and had 
 arranged to enter the office of Dr. N. S. Tefft, of Plainview. Upon his return from Northfield, during 
 the spring of 1871, he entered the employment of A. Y. Felton as deputy postmaster in the Plainview 
 postoffice, which position he held for a year and a half, in the meantime devoting all his spare time to 
 the study of medicine. During the fall and winter of 1872-3 the doctor attended his first course of 
 lectures at Rush Medical College, at Chicago, Illinois, and in the fall of 1873 he entered the employ of 
 Dr. J. J. Stone, as prescription-clerk in his drug-store at Wabasha, Minnesota, where he remained for 
 nearly a year, and in the fall and winter of 1874-5 he attended his final course of lectures at Rush 
 Medical College, graduating in the month of February, 1875, having earned his own education since he 
 attended district school in his native state. After returning to the employ of Dr. J. J. Stone in 
 Wabasha, where he remained for a period of ten months, our subject settled in Elgin village, and 
 entered upon the practice of his profession there, March 28, 1876, where he now resides on a good 
 property of his own on Main street. Besides his medical practice, the doctor has charge of the Elgin 
 drug-store, which is conducted under the firm name of Landon, Burchard & Co. Dr. Adams was 
 married in Plainview, Minnesota, on August 29, 1875, to Miss Nellie A. Gibbs, daughter of the late Dr. 
 F. C. Gibbs and Mrs. Sarah Gibbs, the latter of whom now resides in Plainview. The issue of the 
 marriage is a follows: Grace, born September 9, 1877, died April 26, 1881; Carl Chauncey, born June 
 3, 1883. The doctor has never sought for political honors of any nature whatever, but looks after the 
 educational interests of the community in which he resides, as school director of district No. 57.