BENTON COUNTY MINNESOTA BIOGRAPHIES
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File contributed for use in Benton County Biographies by
Name: RexAnne Coad
Email: rcoad@mediaone.net
Date: ?
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"BIOGRAPHY OF Reverend Amos Barber Adams"
    
    Amos Barber ADAMS was born on September 14, 1815 in New
    York, and died in Michigan in 1906.  In 1850, Rev. Adams
    settled at Langola, Minnesota where he founded and preached
    for a pioneer church.  He was a Congregationalist minister. 
    During the Civil War, the Sioux indians who lived west of
    the Mississippi River made frequent raids upon the white
    settlers and peaceful Chippewas and Rev. Adams was obliged
    to flee with his family to Fort Ripley for safety.
    
    In the summer of 1863, he moved to Michigan, traveling
    northern Minnesota by ox team, crossing Lake Michigan on the
    schooner "Stronach" and landing at the mouth of the Manistee
    River.
    
    Submitted by RexAnne Coad [rcoad@mediaone.net]