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W.S.J. Adams

W.S.J. Adams
Full Name: W. S. J. Adams
Birth date: 1843
Death date: December 10, 1883

Terms of Service

  • House, 15th (1) (2) (3) (4) Legislature
    4/18/1876 - 8/3/1876
    Democrat
(1) Mentioned in "The news from Austin . . . Resignations of Representative Barziza and four others accepted after critical debate . . . Hunter restored to his seat . . . Other resignations not improbable," Thursday, 8/3/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) W.J.S. Adams, Comanche County. Resignation letter and Gov. Coke's transmittal letter to Speaker, 8/3/1876, pp. 755-756. House Journal . April 18, 1876
August 3, 1876
(3) Adams resigned 8/3/1876. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Democrat. Texas Legal Directory for 1876-77 1877.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, Private, Company C, Terry's Texas Rangers, 8th Cavalry, enlistment date October 1861 in Dallas County. Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900. Ancestry.com .
  • Census of 1860 - W.S.J. Adams, Dallas County, age 24, born circa 1835 in Kentucky, lawyer.
    W.S.J. Adams married Ora Page, 8/8/1877 in Comanche County. FamilySearch . 1860
  • "Over the state - Colorado," 12/10/1883, p. 1. Col. W.J.S. Adams, prominent lawyer of "this place" and ex-member of state legislature, died 12/10/1883. Galveston Daily News .
  • W.S.J. Adams, "Ready to make laws . . . Eighty members present (House)" (organization of the 15th Legislature), 4/19/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
  • W.S.J. Adams. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
  • Biographical sketch, W.S.J. Adams, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1843, pp. 137-139. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
  • Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
  • W.S.J. Adams. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992 1992.
  • Entry for wife Ora Alice Page, p. 456, mentions late Col. W.S.J. Adams, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, prominent lawyer, died in Colorado, Texas, 12/10/1883. The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. 1905.
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