Adams County Wisconsin Genealogy

Newspaper articles and items of interest posted from various newspapers, etc about Adams Co people, places and events of genealogical interest such as birth, marriage, death, probate, graduations, school reports, county court cases, land and homestead records, etc.

• 1858 - Amelia Dutcher's disappearance in 1858
• 1859 - Methodist Ministers Appointed to Area Churches in 1859
• 1862 - 1862 Civil War Letter
• 1863 - 1863 Convention of the Presbyterian and Congregational
• 1868 - October 1868 Jurors
• 1868 - Village of Barnum in 1868
• 1868 - New Chester in 1868
• 1869 - Methodist Clergy Appointments, October 1869
• 1869 - 1869 October Jurors
• 1870 - July 1870 County Board Representatives
• 1870 - 1870 Adams County Juror Pool
• 1870 - 1870 Adams County Jurors October 1870
• 1871 - 1871 Agricultural Society officers and directors
• 1871 - Arkdale in 1871 newspaper article
• 1871 - County Board Representatives
• 1871 - Jury Pool List names selected at the Dec. 1870 Co. Board meeting
• 1871 - Jury List March 1871
• 1871 - Township Election Results April 1871
• 1871 - Quincy Lodge Officers, F. & A. M.
• 1872 - Description of Adams County in 1872
• 1872 - Agricultural Society Directors in 1872
• 1872 - Jackson Township in 1872
• 1872 - Springville in 1872
• 1872 - White Creek in 1872
• 1874 - County Board, April 1874
• 1874 - Methodist Clergy, 1874
• 1874 - Teachers Institute Attendees, Autumn 1874
• 1874 - Township Election Results, April 1874
• 1874 - Premiums Awarded at the County Fair
• 1875 - Agricultural Society Directors in 1875
• 1877 - JOHN ANDERSON MURDER OF ISAAC ROSEGARD
  At the recent term of the Adams County Circuit Court John Anderson, Charged with murdering Isaac Rosegard, at Strong’s Prairie, on the fourth of July last, was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree, and sentenced to three years imprisonment at Waupun. Source: Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) Monday, June 25, 1877; pg. 2; Issue 150; col F
• 1878 - January 1878 Jury List
• 1878 - June 1878 Jury List
• 1878 - Local News Items from the 1878 newspapers
• 1879 - Local News January - July 1879
• 1879 - Jurors for June 1879 Court Cases
• 1880 - Columbia Rifles a Civil War Cavalry Unit from the Adams Co area
• 1882 - 1882 County Board
• 1882 - June 1882 Jury List
• 1883 - 1883 Agricultural Society
• 1883 - 1883 County Board
• 1883 - Jan 1883 Jury List
• 1883 - June 1883 Jury List
• 1884 - 1884 County Board
• 1885 - 1885 County Board
• 1885 - 1885 Teachers List
• 1886 - 1886 Election of Township Officers
• 1887 - 1887 County Board
• 1887 - June 1887 Jury List
• 1887 - 1887 Teacher's Institute List
• 1888 - 1888 County Board
• 1888 - 1888 Jury List
• 1888 - 1888 Township Election Results
• 1889 - 1889 Agricultural Society
• 1890 - County Board Members
• 1890 - November 1890 Agricultural Society Meeting
• 1890 - Republican County Convention Delegates
• 1890 - M.C.SMITH TAKEN ILL
  Recently M. C. Smith, a farmer of Strong’s Prairie, Adams county, went to his marsh six miles from home for a load of hay. He succeeded in getting the load on the sleigh, when he was taken so suddenly ill that he could not climb on to his load. Then he thought to write a note, fasten it to the team and send it home, but found himself unable to write. As a last resort he unhitched his team from the sleigh, fastened the lines around his body, and so was half dragged by the horses a distance of four miles to a neighbor's house, where he was taken in and cared for. Source: The Wisconsin State Register, (Portage, WI) Saturday, February 22, 1890; Issue 2; col H
• 1891 - 1891 Agricultural Society Officers and Directors
• 1891 - 1891 County Board
• 1891 - 1891 Township Election Results
• 1891 - BURGLARY AT STRONG PRAIRIE - A very daring burglary was committed Monday morning at Strong Prairie, the thieves securing about $1,000. They broke into the store of John Fiegel & Son, and, drilling a hole in the safe, blew it open with dynamite. There are indications that there were two burglars, and they must have been at work for several hours, but as no one else was in the building, they were pretty safe from being discovered. They have been tracked to this city and thence north from here, the trail being soon lost, and there is no other clue to them. Officers are out in all directions. It is believed the job was done by expert cracksmen. Source: The Wisconsin State Register, (Portage, WI) Saturday, November 28, 1891; Issue 42; col B
• 1891 - NEW CREAMERY AT STRONG’S PRAIRIE J. W. Coapman. - Editors Register: Mr. E.S. Gibbs, of Portage, has just complted for the farmers of Strong's Prairie, Adams county, six miles east of Necedah, a separator creamery similar in style and machinery to the one in Portage. At the opening and test of machinery last Monday there were many people gathered to the spot to witness the process of separating cream from the milk, ost of whom had never witnessed that system. It is needless to add that great surprise and pleasure manifested; 1,728 pounds of milk were separated at the test in less than two hours, which was satisfctory under the circumstances of the new machinery, etc. The factory will in due time be one of the first in rank in the state owing to a wide range of good farming country in the vincinity. Several farmers are now milking foom ten to twenty-five cows. The people of Strong's Prairie are delighed with the new enterprise in their midst and with its efficient management they will most certainly made a success of it. At the first meeting of directors the following named were elected for officers:
  D.H. Town, president
  Wm. Walker, Jr., secretary
  O.C. Ely, treasurer.
  The plant is co-operative and is incorporated, under the state law. Orders have already been received from St. pal and other places for butter, which will be filled as soon as possible.
  Crops in this section are about the same as in the vicinity of Portage. Corn, however, isnot so good as it is further est. The weather is delightful for haying and early harvesting. J.W. Coapman Necedah, July 18. Source: The Wisconsin State Register, (Portage, WI) Saturday, July 25, 1891; Issue 24; col A
• 1892 - 1892 Agricultural Society Officers & Directors
• 1892 - Petit Jurors Drawn in May 1892
• 1892 - 1892 Republican County Convention
• 1892 - Township Election Results in April 1892
• 1893 - 1893 Agricultural Society
• 1893 - 1893 County Board
• 1893 - 1893 Rous Family Reunion
• 1893 - 1893 Township Election Results
• 1893 - Local News Items
• 1894 - 1894 Agricultural Society Directors
• 1894 - 1894 County Board of Supervisors
• 1894 - May 1894 Jury List
• 1895 - 1895 Agricultural Society
• 1895 - May 1895 Jury List
• 1895 - 1895 G.A.R., W.R.C. and F.A.M. Officers Grand Army of the Republic, Women's Relief Corps, and Free and Accepted Masons
• 1896 - 1896 Agricultural Society
• 1896 - 1896 County Board
• 1896 - 1896 Jury List
• 1897 - County Board Representatives
• 1897 - County Fair Prize Winners
• 1897 - June 1897 Court Calendar
• 1897 - June 1897 High School Graduates
• 1897 - Local News Items from the 1897 newspapers
• 1897 - April 1897 Township Election Results
• 1897 - July 1897 Summer School Students
• 1897 - August 1897 Teachers' Institute
• 1898 - 1898 Agricultural Society May Meeting
• 1898 - 1898 Agricultural Society Dec Meeting
• 1898 - 1898 County Board
• 1898 - 1898 Jury List
• 1898 - Local News
• 1898 - 1898 Home Forum and Masons Lodge Officers
• 1898 - 1898 MWA Election of Officers
• 1898 - 1898 Town Clerks
• 1899 - 1899 Agricultural Society Officers & Directors
• 1899 - 1899 County Board
• 1899 - 1899 GAR Meeting Civil War Veterans
• 1899 - 1899 Jury List
• 1899 - 1899 Royal Neighbors Election of Officers
• 1900 - 1900 Agricultural Society Officers & Directors
• 1900 - 1900 County Board
• 1902 - 1902 Agricultural Society
• 1902 - 1902 County Board
• 1902 - Lodge Election of Officers, 1902
• 1903 - 1903 Agricultural Society Officers and Directors
• 1903 - June 1903 Jurors
• 1903 - November 1903 County Board
• 1903 - 1903 Teacher's Institute
• 1904 - April 1904 County Board members
• 1904 - Local News Jan 2, 1904
• 1906 - 1906 Agricultural Society
• 1906 - 1906 County Board
• 1906 - 1906 Jury List
• 1907 - 1907 County Board
• 1907 - Civil War Veterans Deceased by 1907
• 1907 - 1907 Officers Modern Woodmen & Royal Neighbors
• 1907 - 1907 Masons Officers
• 1908 - 50th Congregational Convention, held in 1908
• 1911 - Coloma Stagecoach Discontinued
• 1911 - 1911 County Board
• 1911 - 1911 Congregational Church Picnic
• 1911 - 1911 Teacher's Institute
• 1911 - September 1911 Jury List
• 1912 - County Board Election Results
• 1912 - Masonic Lodge Election Results, Dec. 1912
• 1912 - Village of Adams Election Results
• 1913 - 1913 Commercial Hotel, Barn Fire
• 1913 - Masonic Lodge Officers in 1913
• 1913 - Citizenships Granted in 1913
• 1913 - County Board Meeting in Nov. 1913
• 1914 - County Board Election Results, April 1914
• 1914 - County Board November 1914
• 1914 - Letter From J. Ferris Spoor about Friendship WI in 1856, Feb 12, 1914
• 1914 - Election Results, April 1914
• 1914 - Jury List, March 1914
• 1915 - Oxford Area Election Results in April 1915, includes New Chester
• 1918 - 1918 Men Summoned To Appear by the Adams Co Draft Board
• 1919 - 1919 County Board
• 1919 - 1919 Jury List
• 1919 - 1919 MWA, RNA, Masons Officers
• 1921 - 1921 High School Graduates
• 1921 - 1921 Election Results
• 1921 - 1921 Jury List
• 1922 - 1922 Jury List
• 1922 - 1922 County Board
• 1923 - County Board Representatives, 1923
• 1924 - County Board Election Results, April 1924
• 1924 - Jurors, April 1924
• 1924 - Nearly Frozen While Hunting Wolves
• 1937 - Jurors, June 1937
• 1947 - History of Old Adams Post Offices, July 1947
• 1952 - Elementary School Graduates

Wisconsin Historical Society Genealogy Index contains some local newspaper articles published statewide between 1860 and 1940.---These consist mainly of pioneer reminiscences, portraits of community institutions, interviews with early settlers, strange anecdotes of eccentric personalities, and other grass-roots information. These real stories of real people have not been altered in any way; images of the original newspaper articles display on the researcher's screen. All of them are easy to search by personal name or a variety of subject headings.