Franklin Adams    

FRANKLIN ADAMS, farmer, P. O. Riceville, was born July 28, 1832, in Susquehanna County, Penn., son of Asa and Sibyl Adams, who came to this county about 1836, locating in Athens Township in 1837. The former died February 16, 1862, aged seventy-seven years; the latter died May 29, 1858. Here our subject grew up, enduring the hardships that fell to the lot of a pioneer’s son. He married, January 2, 1854, Ruth A. Parker, born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., February 23, 1832, daughter of Thomas and Mary Parker. When eighteen years old she came to this county with her parents, from Chautauqua County, N.Y. Our subject and wife settled in this township after their marriage, chiefly devoting themselves to farming. They have acquired a comfortable home, having purchased, in 1874, the old Clement’s farm, where they now live. They have one son —Thomas Eugene—who married Viola Hall. They reside near Grand Valley, Warren Co., Penn., and have a family of four children: Jasper C., George M., Mattie B. and William F. Mrs. Franklin Adams is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject is an A. F. & A. M., and a member of the K. of H. He is a stanch Republican; a man of much influence in the community.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 776-777.  View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free Trial  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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