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EARLY SETTLER DIES IN CALIFORNIASupposed to Ik* One of the First White Children Horn in Galena— Was a Hon of Mr. and Mrs. Wad-ams, Deceased.A 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 lxrain 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 Pasadena Sunday.Mr. Wadams was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wadams, who were eastern people, the father a native of New York state and the mother a native of Verpiont. They located in the territory of Indiana in 1814 and subsequently went to Ohio. WThen the elder Wadams .came to Jo Daviess county he located near Galena and was an early Justice and operated the first flouting mill run by water power in that section. When the Black Hawk war broke out in 1832 he enlisted in the service, as did also several sons, the balance of his family going to White Oak Springs, where many others fled for safety. Later he bought land from the government which was in Jo Daviess county at the time and It afterwards became West Point in Stephenson county. The town of Wadams Grove was named after him, as was also Wadams township in Stephenson county. He died in 1858; his wife in 1878.The man who died in California yesterday was born in a log cabin near Galena, where his father was engaged in mining. He was supposed to be the first white child born in this county. Mr. Wadams passed many years of his life on the old homestead; he was in Iowa a year and in 1886 he spent a year in Florida. Then he came back here and was in this city some time before going to California in 1894. He was a man of good principles and had many friends all over this section who will be sorry to learn of his death.
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Galena Weekly Tribune
Galena, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 25, 1906
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