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Mizeittle(sideitionHowthehave lttle hour leful itter »am-cor-iver-i its hool i for i alld Idlight;reathesethatsome beEARLY SETTLER DIES IN CALIFORNIASupposed to Re One of the First White Children Born in Galena— Was a Son of Mr, and Mrs. Wad* ams, Deceased.OMeFr:he Ia we nem he rt by tl ley ti tlon mast unioi no stI Orsay:of shaffpHroadi«ierreascmit iSri a iA dispatch that was received here Sunday announced the death at Pasadena, California, of Jo Daviess Wadams, who ranked as one of the earliest born in this section of the state, his native place being this county, where he was born Oct. 2,1829, two years after his parents came to this part of the state from Lorain county, Ohio. Mr. Wadams was living with his sister at the time of his demise, the lady being Mrs. Jewell, the mother of Mrs. H. D. Bentley. The funeral was held at I InenPasadena Sunday. lreMr. Wadams was a son of Mr. and ®nce Mrs. William Wadams, who were striki eastern people, the father a native of bmln the New York state and the mother a *nd native of Verpiont. They located in imrai t lay the territory of Indiana in 1814 and ank. subsequently went to Ohio. When may the elder Wadams .came to Jo Da-erns dess county he located near Galena M( rain and was an early justice and oper- Jncei bem ated the first flowing mill run by I state the water power in that section. When Th Bvel, the Black Hawk war broke out in annu rard~ 1832 he enlisted in the service, as you. did also several sons, the balance of T*1 not his family going to White Oak atten ‘8 of Springs, where many others fled for P8safety. Later he bought land from Thlt; the government which was in Jo Da- victs viess county at the time and it after- tract wards became West Point in Stephen- Tt] ,pers son county. The town of Wadams y©ar' law Gr0ve was named after him, as was Quir«,n of also Wadams township in Stephenson 1ee an county. He died in 1858; his wife have [)rdt’ in 1878. ery itheir -phg man wjjD died in California 11 Vhat yesterday was born in a log cabin reral near Galena, where his father was equa their engaged in mining. He was sup- av®ri clala posed to be the first white child born Al 866 in this county. Mr. Wadams passed ?‘od lone. many years of his life on the old wbe* iway homestead; he was in Iowa a year thirdand in 1886 he spent a year in Flor- of P ;»e to ida Then he came back here and T* state wa8 jn this city some time before bing word going to California in 1894. He was Krea bttte a man of good principles and bad outsl legal many friends all over this section outwho will be sorry to learn of his iloon I death. ITE81ha. i
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Galena Weekly Tribune
Galena, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 25, 1906
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