VT BIO - Orange Co - ADAMS, Bailey F.

Men of Vermont: an Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Pub. Co., 1894, Part II, Sons of 
Vermonters, p 1 (Portrait p 1)

Bailey F. ADAMS, of Randolph [Orange County], Vermont, son of Luther and 
Lydia (REED) ADAMS, was born in Brookfield [Orange County], Vermont, 11 April 
1825. He received his education in the common schools of Brookfield and 
Williamstown and at Newbury Academy. His grandfather, Samuel ADAMS, was a 
relative and namesake of the famous Massachusetts patriot and served seven 
years in the Continental army. His maternal grandfather, Jonathan REED, was 
also a Revolutionary soldier and carried on his breast a scar from a British 
bayonet. Bailey F. ADAMS remained on his father's farm at Brookfield and 
Williamstown [Orange County, Vermont] until 1851, when he moved to the farm 
where he now resides, devoting his attention to dairy products and horse 
breeding, and owning a fine herd of Jerseys. 

Bailey F. ADAMS is a Republican in politics; was Selectman for five 
consecutive terms from 1862, and with his associates during that period paid 
out of the town treasury over $60,000 to the soldiers, together with the 
money compensation offered by the government to Selectmen for recruiting 
services. Mr. ADAMS has been Town Auditor for seventeen consecutive years; 
lister, fourteen years; has represented his town repeatedly at county and 
state conventions; was member for Randolph in the Legislature of 1874; 
elected Assistant Judge of Orange County court 1888-1890; has been one of the 
Trustees of the Normal School at Randolph since its establishment and also 
the Trustee of its endowment fund. 

Bailey F. ADAMS was married 01 May 1855 to Lucinda S., daughter of Rev. Andes 
T. and Lydia (LINCOLN) BULLARD. Of this union [Bailey F. and Lucinda S. 
(BULLARD) ADAMS] four children were born: Jairus B.; Clinton A.; Albert C., 
deceased; and Julius L., deceased.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly