Thomas Adams (April 20, 1804 – January 2, 1869) was sheriff of
Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a boro ...
, from 1848 to 1852, and from 1853 to January 1, 1857.
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Biography
Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts
Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 1 ...
, on April 20, 1804. Early in life, Adams worked as a butcher alongside his father; later, he owned several different stage lines and traded in horses. Adams married Mehetabel Field, the daughter of Joseph and Relief (Baxter) Field on April 4, 1826.
Adams died of apoplexy
Apoplexy () is rupture of an internal organ and the accompanying symptoms. The term formerly referred to what is now called a stroke. Nowadays, health care professionals do not use the term, but instead specify the anatomic location of the bleedi ...
on January 2, 1869.
References
1804 births
People from Quincy, Massachusetts
People from Braintree, Massachusetts
High Sheriffs of Norfolk County
19th-century American people
Politicians from Quincy, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Whigs
1869 deaths
butchers
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