PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 



ton, East Feliciana parish. In 1859 the subject of our 

 sketch was sent to Furman University, South Carolina, 



graduating from that 

 school in the early part 

 of 1 86 1. Soon after 

 this he married Miss 

 Holloway, a grand-niece 

 of Col. Travis, of Texas 

 fame. From this mar- 

 riage there are five living 

 children. When scarcely 

 of age Mr. Adams en- 

 tered a South Carolina 

 regiment, known as the 

 Hampton Legion. He 

 served through the en- 

 tire war and rose from 

 private to captain. At 

 the end of the war he 

 returned home with 

 T. S. Adams. shattered health and the 



remnant of his fortune scattered. Of the latter nothing 

 was left him but the t>rave woman he married and two 

 bright baby boys, born during the war. But he went to 

 work with a will and is now the owner of a plantation 

 home, and is engaged in cotton and general farming and 

 stockraising. At the general election of 1884 he was 

 elected to the lower house of the General Assembly. As 

 a member of the Legislature he introduced many measures 

 of reform, chief of which were: "An Industrial School 

 for White Girls of the State, " "Making Dealings in 

 Futures a Felony," and a joint resolution "Remodeling 

 the Judiciary System of the State." But the crowning 

 act of his public career was securing the United States 

 Barracks at Baton Rouge to the State, thereby turning 



