ADAMS, JAMES, was born Jan. 24, 1783, in Hartford, Conn. Harriet Denton was born Jan. 31, 1787, in Hartford, also. They were there married about 1809, and moved to Oswego, N. Y., where they had five children. They moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1821, soon after the place was declared to be the county seat of Sangamon county. Of their four living children,

LOVENIA E., born May 3, 1813, at Oswego, N. Y., married, in Springfield, to Peter Weber. See his name. They both died in the north part of the State. She died Sept. 5, 1838.

CHARLOTTE B., born May 2, 1815, in Oswego, N. Y., and died Jan. 10, 1832.

LUCIAN B., born Dec. 10, 1816, in Oswego, N. Y.; married in Springfield, March 14, 1847, to Margery A. Reed, who was born July 9, 1824, in Williamsport, Penn. They have four children. JAMES L., born Jan. 22, 1848, in Springfield, graduated in a commercial college in Chicago, and is employed in a railroad office in Vallejo, California. ELDORA J., ENOLA A. and HARRIET L., reside with their parents in Springfield. Lucian B. Adams studied law and obtained license to practice in 1840. For twenty years he discharged the duties of a justice of the peace, and the greater part of that time acted as police magistrate, U. S. commissioner and notary public. He is now U. S. commissioner.

VIENNA M., born July 10, 1818, in Oswego, N. Y.; married in Springfield, to Charles G. McGraw. See his name.

James Adams was a lawyer, and engaged in practice when he came to Springfield, in 1821. He was elected justice of the peace in 1823 or '4 and was elected successively for many years. He took part in the Winnebago and Black Hawk Indian wars of 1827, and 1831 and '2. He was elected Probate Judge of Sangamon county, and died in office, August 11, 1843. His widow, Mrs. Harriet Adams, died August 21, 1844, both in Springfield.