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About Shubael Pratt Adams
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Shubael P. Adams was a native of Medford, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1817, of honorable New England ancestry. When Shubael was but two years old the family removed to Lincoln County, Maine, where his mother died two years later. When eighteen years of age he went to Waltham, Massachusetts, to learn the machinist trade, which he did and worked several years at it, studying medicine and attending medical lectures in the meantime. He later attended medical lectures in Boston and Pittslleld, Massachusetts, receiving at the latter place the degree of M. D. in 1845. Soon after, however, his natural preference drew him from medicine to law and he seriously and studiously entered upon the study of the latter at Lowell, Massachusetts, and was admitted to that bar in 1849.
In 1845 he had represented Lowell in the Legislature. In 1853 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and in 1 85 7 elected again to the Legislature. In this same year he came to Dubuque and entered upon the practice of his profession. He was subsequently appointed Provost Marshal for the third congressional district of the State with rank of Captain of Cavalry and held this position until the close of the war. In 1 866 he was appointed on the commission to lay out a reservation for the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, after which he devoted his attention uninterruptedly to his profession. He was for a number of years attorney for the Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad Company and of the Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Railroad Company. He was regarded as a most useful citizen and a lavi^yer of marked ability. He was for a time associated with and a member of the firm of Smith, McKinlay, Poor & Adams; after that with DeWitt C. Cram. This firm continued until 1 862, when Cram became Major of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry and Adams was appointed Provost Marshal, the duties of which William Graham says he discharged with great energy and singular prudence. He fur- ther says in a communication to me: "Adams was a good man, whose influence was always exerted on the right side."
Shubael was rather short and heavy set, with features a little irregular, and he was rugged in appearance and demeanor. He died greatly respected at Dubuque in 1894. source
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Shubael Pratt Adams's Timeline
| 1817 |
February 5, 1817
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Medfield, Norfolk County, MA, United States
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| 1854 |
January 1, 1854
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Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1858 |
February 4, 1858
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| 1860 |
June 26, 1860
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Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, United States
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June 26, 1860
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| 1862 |
December 22, 1862
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| 1865 |
May 16, 1865
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| 1869 |
January 31, 1869
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Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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| 1894 |
March 14, 1894
Age 77
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Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA, United States
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