BIO: LEWIS R. ADAMS of Atlantic County New Jersey ----------------------------------- Information located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~njatlant/ On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in July 2007 Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== 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 page 448 LEWIS R. ADAMS Lewis R. Adams is a son of Alfred Adams Sr., one of the old-time residents of this city. He is a grandson of John Bryant, who was one of the first settlers of Atlantic City. It was his grandfather who operated the famous salt works that flourished here early in the century, and although the subject of this sketch was born as late as January 10, 1860, he has seen many changes in his native city, and no one is more competent to detail the amazing progress that has been made here during his life than he. He received a common school education, and at the age of fourteen apprenticed himself to the bricklaying trade under his father. He served the allotted time, and at the age of nineteen, he becamea contractor, entering bodly into competition with men who were twice his years. But pluck and ability, traits which run in his family (he being a cousin of John L. Young) aided him splendidly, and among his first undertakings was that of building the old Ocean House at Connecticut and Pacific avenues. He constructed the brick work for the Pennsylvania avenue school house, the hotel Luray, Osborne and Leland. He did the mason work on the Real Estate and Law Building, and on Myers' Union Market. He was the first Building Inspector of Atlantic City, being appointed in 1887. Two years later he opened bath houses on the Boardwalk at the foot of New York avenue, and has been engaged in this business ever since, and is the owner ofa valuable beach front property. (end)