Parmenio Adams (September 9, 1776 – February 19, 1832) was a businessman and politician from New York. He served as a member of the

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Biography

Adams was born in

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, to Parmenio Adams and Chloe Nearing. He married Eleanor Wells on October 23, 1795 and they had four children, James, Sarah, Sarah, and Laura. In 1806, Adams moved his family to Phelps Corners, which is now located in part of the Village of

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, which lies in the Town of Alexander. Adams served as lieutenant of light Infantry, captain of Grenadiers, second and first major, and division inspector of Infantry in the

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from 1806 until 1816. During the War of 1812, he was active on the Niagara frontier as Major, division inspector of Infantry, and commandant of the New York Volunteers. Adams was Sheriff of Genesee County from 1815 to 1816 and again from 1818 to 1821. He had agricultural interests, ran a

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, and was a construction contractor on the

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. At the United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1822, Isaac Wilson was declared elected in the 29th District by a small margin. Adams contested Wilson's election, showing that the returns had been certified mistakenly, and Adams was seated in the

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as an Adams-Clay

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on January 7, 1824. Adams was re-elected as an Adams man to the

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, holding office until March 3, 1827. He returned to his personal businesses.

Death

Adams died in

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, on February 19, 1832. He is

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at Forest Hill Cemetery, in the Town of

, now in Wyoming County.

References

External links

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pp. 71 and 400; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Obit
transcribed at Ancestry.com
''Cases of Contested Elections in Congress 1789 to 1834''
compiled by

Matthew St. Clair Clarke Matthew St. Clair Clarke (1790 Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania - May 6, 1852 Washington, D.C.) was an American journalist, book author and politician. He was for seven terms Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. Life ...

and David A. Hall (

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, 1834; Case XLIX, pp. 369ff) *
Adams-Cotton family marker
at the Forest Hill Cemetery
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