:Edwin Adams (politician)
{{Short description|American politician (1829-1908)}}
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|death_place=South Norwalk, Connecticut
|restingplace=Riverside Cemetery
Norwalk, Connecticut
|residence=11 Fairfield Avenue
South Norwalk, Connecticut
|office=Mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut
|order=7th
|term_start2=1881
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|predecessor2=Christian Swartz
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Edwin Adams (March 8, 1829 – May 10, 1908) was a one-term mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1881. He was one of the largest hat manufacturers in Connecticut.
Biography
He was born on March 8, 1829, in Salem, New York. He worked as a country merchant. When he was about forty years old, he moved from New York to South Norwalk, Connecticut, to join his brother, Gehurdus P. Adams in making hats. His brother was a member of the firm of Adams & Holmes. After the death of Mr. Holmes, the firm became known as Adams Brothers. When Edwin retired, he served as treasurer of the Hat Forming Company.
Adams became prominently identified with the affairs of South Norwalk soon after he located there, and in October 1880, he was elected mayor of the city, serving as its chief executive throughout the year 1881.
He served as the South Norwalk, Connecticut postmaster after Charles E. Doty was charged with embezzling in 1892.{{cite news |title=Postmaster Doty Arrested |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/06/22/104136423.pdf |work=New York Times |date=June 22, 1892 |access-date=2015-02-17 }}
Also in 1892, he served without compensation on a city committee with General Nelson Taylor and Joseph A. Volk that led to the construction of a municipally-owned electric power plant, the first such municipally-owned utility in Connecticut.{{cite journal | author =Albert E. Winchester | date=January 1915 | title =South Norwalk's Municipal Electric Works | journal =Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | volume =57 | pages =228–231 | doi=10.1177/000271621505700124 | jstor =1013283 | s2cid=143658194 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/2195415 }}
He died in South Norwalk, Connecticut, from a stomach disease after a two-week illness on May 10, 1908.{{cite news |title=Edwin Adams |year=1908 |quote=Edwin Adams, former mayor and for many years a prominent hat manufacturer and resident of South Norwalk, Conn., died on May 10th at his residence, 11 Fairfield avenue, to which he had been confined but a few days, though he had been ill for several months from a stomach disease, which gradually ate his life away. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ftYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA78 |periodical=American Hatter }}{{cite news |title=Edwin Adams |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Adams_obituary.png |quote=Edwin Adams, a former hat manufacturer and Mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut in 1881, died at his home there on Sunday, after two weeks' illness. He was eighty years old. Half a century ago he was one of the largest hat makers in Connecticut. |newspaper=New York Tribune |date=May 12, 1908 |access-date=2015-02-19 }} He is buried in Riverside Cemetery.
Associations
- Member, Our Brothers' Lodge of Odd Fellows, Norwalk
References
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Category:Burials in Riverside Cemetery (Norwalk, Connecticut)
Category:Mayors of Norwalk, Connecticut
Category:People from Salem, New York
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