BIO: ISRAEL GUTHRIE ADAMS of Atlantic County New Jersey

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SOURCE: The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing 
sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and 
illustrations specially prepared; by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, 
1900

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ISRAEL GUTHRIE ADAMS
Israel Guthrie Adams, the head of the real estate and insurance firm of I.G. Adams &
Company, comes from good old Quaker stock, for several generations resident of Atlantic
County. His father, the late Israel Scull Adams, was the youngest of four brothers in a
family of seven children. Their father was the late Jesse Adams, of Bakersville. The
seven children were:
  1. Clement, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Baker.  2. Enoch who married
Naomi Townsend.  3. Constant, who married Sophia Morris.  4. Israel Scull, who married
Louisa C., daughter of the late Dr. Guthrie, Connecticut born, who lived and died in
the South, being buried at St. Augustine, Fla.  5. Abigail, who married Charles Lake.
6. Elizabeth, who married Pardon Ryon Sr.  7. Margaret, who married, first, John Baker
and second Andrew Frambes.

The subject of this sketch was born in 1843 at Bakersville. He finished his education at
Pennington Seminary, and before he was twenty-one years of age was master of a vessel.
He followed the sea for a number of years, engaged in trade chiefly at West Indian and
Mexican ports. In February 1865 he was shipwrecked off Cape Lookout in a severe storm
and nearly lost his life. His vessel, the schooner "Spray," struck the shoals seven
miles from shore, where no help could reach them in the high sea. From Monday till
Thursday afternoon, Capt. Adams and his five men were lashed to the rigging in great
peril, nearly frozen and starved, the waves breaking over them. A boat's crew from the
warship of Admiral Porter finally took them off as the Admiral was proceeding to
Washington to witness President Lincoln's second inauguration.

Capt. Adams was in command of the I.S. & L.C. Adams, crossing the ocean in 1867, when a
hurricane was encountered, nearly sinking the ship.

He quit the sea in 1883 and opened a real estate and insurance office in this city, at
Arkansas and Atlantic avenues. His usual enterprise built up a profitable business,
which has been steadily advancing ever since. His cousin, Clement J. Adams, is associated
with him in the firm. The foresight of his father in purchasing large tracts of
sandhills and meadow lands down the beach has been of vast benefit to the two sons.

John Baker Adams, of Camden, is the only brother of Israel G.  Israel G. married first,
Phoebe A. Sanders, and had five children, Florence, Amelia S, who married Dr. Walter
A. Corson; Charles R. who graduated from Chester Military Academy, a civil engineer,
and is engaged in the real estate business in this city; Mabel E. and Israel Morton,
who is a law student in the University of Pennsylvania.

For his second wife, Mr. Adams married Anna M., the youngest daughter of Peter Boice. He
has a fine home at Linwood, while his business office is in Atlantic City. Besides his
extensive real estate interests, Mr. Adams is a stockholder and director in several
financial institutions. He is a director in the Second National Bank and the Safe Deposit
and Trust Company, President of the Atlantic City Cooling Company, Director in the State
Mutual Building Association, also in the West Jersey Guarantee and Title Company, also
in the Chelsea Investment and Development Company, and the Chelsea HOtel and Improvement
COmpany; Director of the Security Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Camden. One of
I.G. Adams' late deals was the selling of the West Jersey Excursion House at Chelsea
to a syndicate of Philadelphia millionaires for $360,000 from which now springs the
grandest hotel on the Atlantic coast.


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