WI BIO - Dodge Co - ADAMS, Joel
History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 602

Joel ADAMS, farmer, Section 3 [Oak Grove Township, Dodge County, Wisconsin], 
P. O. Minnesota Junction [near Horicon, Dodge County], was born in Warren 
County, New York, 02 December 1822, son of Joseph ADAMS, who died about 1824; 
his father was from Philadelphia and of old Quaker stock; in the town of 
Independence [Beaver, Snyder, or Washington County?], Pennsylvania, is a 
church built by the ADAMS family over two hundred years ago.

Mr. Joel ADAMS went to New York City in 1844; was there four years; then went 
to California by way of the Isthmus, and reached there 01 October 1849 
[California became a state in 1850]; kept a bakery in San Francisco; half of 
the people lived in tents at that time; afterward went to Marion County 
[Marion County, Oregon, or Marin County, California?] and went to raising 
stock; left [the State of] California in March 1860, and went to New York, 
New Jersey, and to Illinois, and came to Oak Grove [Dodge County, Wisconsin] 
in June 1860 and settled on 120 acres and has been engaged in agricultural 
pursuits ever since; has now one of the finest creameries and milk houses in 
the county; house 16 x 24 feet and 12 feet to roof; makes about one hundred 
pounds butter a week, all first class and finds a very ready market. Mr. 
[Joel] ADAMS has been on the Town Board.

On 24 October 1860 [Joel ADAMS] married Elizabeth E. WINTER, daughter of 
Daniel WINTER of New Jersey. [Joel and Elizabeth E. (WINTER) ADAMS] have had 
four [five] children: (1) Mary E., born 14 September 1861; (2) George, 
born 19 October 1862; (3) Frank, born 28 May 1864, and (4) Alice, born 04 
April 1866; (5) Mary E. died in September 1862. 

Submitted by: Cathy Kubly