Isaac Adams (April 19, 1825 – September 28, 1879) was an American farmer and politician. Born in

Vernon, New York Vernon is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 5,408 at the 2010 census. The Town of Vernon is on the western border of the county. The town contains a village, also named Vernon. History The first European se ...

, Adams moved to

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in 1853 and settled in Door Creek, Wisconsin, in the town of Cottage Grove in

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, where he was a farmer. He served as a justice of the peace for the town and was an enrolling officer during the

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. Adams served in the

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in 1867 and 1875 as a

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. He died at his home in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin.''Reports and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin'', volume 9, Lyman Copeland Draper, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1909, Wisconsin Necrology 1879, p. 445.

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* 1825 births 1879 deaths People from Vernon, New York People from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 19th-century American politicians {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1820s-stub