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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUMY. 



He stayed in Sheffield with liis family one 

 year, then sold out his interest and came 

 north. While with the Slieffield Coal, Iron 

 and Steel Company he held the position- of 

 general superintendent and assistant treas- 

 urer, and also director of the company. He 

 then retired from active business and de- 

 voted himself to farming, having a tract of 

 one hundred acres near Friedensville, 

 Pennsylvania, about I3p acres above Bin- 

 gen, Pennsylvania, and a tract of woodland 

 along the P. & R. of forty acres, above 

 Bingen, Pennsylvania. He was also inter- 

 ested in and a director of the following 

 companies at the time of his death : Pon- 

 upo Mining and Transportation Company, 

 Cuban Alining Company,- Jones and Bix- 

 ler Manufacturing Company, South Beth- 

 lehem National Bank. 



Henry, son of Samuel Adams, was a 

 soldier during the Spanish-American war 

 of 1898. He organized the first volunteer 

 company in the state. He and his com*- 

 pany were taken into the Ninth Pennsyl- 

 vania Regiment to help make up the Third 

 Battalion of that regiment. He was com- 

 missioned as captain of Company K, Ninth 

 Pennsylvania Regiment, United States 

 Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was in 

 the Third Brigade, Third Division, First 

 Army Corps. 



(V.) Joseph W. Adams, of South Beth- 

 lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, 

 son of Samuel Adams, was born in Beth- 

 lehem, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1872. He 

 married Reba Thomas, of Pittsburg, Penn- 

 sylvania, daughter of David J. Thomas and 

 Susannah Edwards, of Pittsburg, June 14, 

 1899, at her home. Reba Thomas, the wife 

 of Joseph W. Adams, was born in Pitts- 

 burg, November ir, 1877. 



Joseph W. Adams was educated at the 

 Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem, 

 Pennsylvania, the HiH school of Potts- 

 town, Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Univer- 

 sity of South Pennsylvania, where he joined 

 the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He started to 

 work in the drawing rooms of the Bethle- 

 hem Iron Company. He went to Cuba 

 with his father and was treasurer of the 

 Ferro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba, 1892-93. 

 He went to Alabama as assistant to the 

 general superintendent of the Sheflfield 

 Coal, Iron and Steel Company in 1895, and 

 part of 1896. He returned home and took 

 up his studies again at Lehigh University 

 in metallurgy and mineralogy, and then 

 read law for over a year. In 1899 he and 

 his brother Henry formed the Cuban Min- 

 ing Company, and he was elected secretary 

 and treasurer of the company and also a 

 director. He is connected with the follow- 

 ing companies : Director and vice-president 

 of the South Bethlehem National Bank ; 

 director and president of La Paz Mining 

 Company; director, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Cuban Mining Company ; director 

 and executive committee of Delaware Forge 

 and Steel Company; director and commit- 

 tee of Guerber Engineering Company ; 

 director of Lehigh Valley Cold Storage 



Company; director, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Roepper Mining Company; director 

 of Valentine Fibre Ware Company; acting 

 trustee of . the estate of Samuel 

 Adams. He is a member of the fol- 

 lowing clubs and societies : Society of 

 Colonial Wars in the State of New 

 York; Empire State Society; Sons of the 

 American Revolution ; Pennsylvania So- 

 ciety of Sons of the Revolution ; Pennsyl- 

 vania German Society, and the local town 

 and country clubs ; and of Masonic bodies — 

 Bethlehem Lodge, Zinzendorf Chapter,, 

 Bethlehem Council, Allen Commandery, 

 Caldwell Consistory, and Rajah Temple. 

 He is captain of commissary, Fourth Reg- 

 iment Infantry, N. G. P. His children 

 were : John, born January 23, 1901 ; David 

 Samuel, born March 15, 1903. 



Henry Adams, captain of Company K, 

 Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, U. S. V. I., 

 son of Samuel Adams, of South Bethlehem, 

 Northampton county, Pennsylvania, was 

 born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Novem- 

 ber 2, 1873. He married Annette Talbot 

 Belcher, of New London, Connecticut, July 

 9, 1902. 



Henry Adams, mining engineer, was edu- 

 cated at the Moravian parochial day school 

 of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Hill 

 school of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and the 

 Lehigh University of South Bethlehem, 

 Pennsylvania, where he joined the Delta 

 Upsilon fraternity. He started to work 

 with Thomas Edison at Edison, N. J. He 

 went to Cuba and was assistant superin- 

 tendent and then superintendent of the Fer- 

 ro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba. He went 

 south to Alabama and was in charge of the 

 coal and coke department of the Sheffield 

 Coal, Iron and Steel Company at Jasper, 

 Alabama. He went to Mexico and erected 

 an electric light plant for the Mexican Na- 

 tional Railroad, and then was supervisor 

 of a division of that road. He resigned and 

 was made constructing engineer for Tumer 

 Nunn & Company of Mexico, Mexico, with 

 headquarters in Pueblo. In December of 

 1897 and January of 1898 he was in Cuba 

 in the city of Santiago and the surrounding, 

 countr}', and visited the insurgents sev- 

 eral times. 



When war broke out with Spain in 1898 

 he raised the first company of volunteers in 

 the state, with the assistance of Colonel 

 Wilson and Captain Juett of Bethlehem. 

 He and his company were mustered into 

 the United States service, and he received 

 his commisison as captain of volunteers on 

 July 6, 1898. His company was attached 

 to the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, 

 United States Volunteer Infantry, as Com- 

 pany K, to help complete the Third Bat- 

 talion. The regiment was in the Third 

 Division, Third Brigade, First Army Corps. 

 Company K, of the Ninth Pennsylvania 

 Regiment of United States Volunteer In- 

 fantry, is thus mentioned in the "Record of 

 Events which may be Necessary or Useful 

 for Future Reference at the War Depart- 

 ment." 



