6 IN MEMORIAM. 



Fox Adams, and a grandson of that eccentric but eminent 

 divine, Rev. Zabdiel Adams, so long settled over the church 

 in Lunenburg. He lost his father by death when but seven 

 years old ; this in a great measure threw him upon his own 

 resources, which probably disciplined him for the work of after 

 life. From sixteen to the age of tAventy he spent in the em- 

 ploy of that well known farmer, Col. Stephen Fay of New Brain- 

 tree ; from that place he came to Fitchburg, and his whole 

 jiiature life was passed here — always an ardent laborer for the 

 spread of agricultural knowledge, the farm on which he lived 

 for nearly forty years, and on which he died, is a monument to 

 his skill and industry. 



Mr. Adams was one of the principal founders of this Society, 

 and always an efficient worker for its prosperity. Those of us 

 who have long been connected vy'ith him, know the value of the 

 assistance which he has so cheerfully rendered to the Society, 

 and to the cause of agriculture, and we can hardly measure the 

 influence which we have derived from his mature judgment and 

 counsels, and to-day, without his honest sunburnt countenance 

 and manly presence, we feel the loss of one of our best friends 

 and officers. Mr. Adams was your delegate at the State Board 

 of Agriculture for three years from 18G3, and wc doubt not but 

 that he has left the impress of his own ardent endeavors on 

 those connected with him on that Board. 



Here in Fitchburg, in our social meetings of the Farmers' 

 Club, of which he was the principal originator, he took an active 

 part in the discussions ; and v/as always a leading spirit in our 

 meetings. 



As an officer in the prudential affairs of the town for a num- 

 ber of years, he exercised a most salutary influence, always 

 bringing to the performance of every duty, persistent and un- 

 flinching honesty and integrity united to indomitable industry. 



" In character he was upright, conscientious and reliable, 

 humane in his feelings, and strict in his words. He Avas early 

 attached to the cause of temperance, and became at the start 



