Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., Pa., 1903 Published by J. H. Beers & Co., page 1315-1316.
FREDERICK ADAMS. For twenty years Mr. Adams has been a faithful and trusted servant of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, having entered the service of that corporation in 1880 as a brakeman. He was made a fireman two and a half years later, and in 1892 was promoted to position of engineer. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and as a citizen is held in high esteem. He is a Democrat in politics, and although not himself a church member, his family are connected with St. John's Lutheran Church. He married Miss Caroline Bupp, Feb. 16, 1886, and their marriage has been blessed with nine children: Nettie, Barbara, John, Carrie, Marguerite, Fred, Nellie, and twins, born in 1900.
Frederick Adams was born in Columbia, Aug. 11, 1864, and like many, of Columbia's public-spirited and valued citizens is of German lineage. His grandfather was the proprietor of an inn in Germany, and died in his native land. His father, John M., came to America when a young man of twenty-one, to avoid military service, for which he had been drafted. He first settled in Baltimore, but after a few years removed to Columbia, where he worked as a foundryman and a stevedore along the canal. Frederick Adams also began his life of hard but honorable toil in a foundry, at the early age of eleven years, five years later finding employment unloading coal and still later working two years upon a farm. Mr. Adams, Sr., died in December, 1891, after completing his sixty-first year. His wife was Anna Bates, who, like himself, was a native of Germany. Her father died there, and she and her mother crossed the ocean together. They found a home in Columbia, and both are now deceased, Mrs. John M. Adams having died July 23, 1872, aged thirty-nine years. Both were members of the Lutheran Church.
Frederick Adams was his parents' sixth child and one of a family of ten. The others were named Maggie, Barbara, Anna, Grace, Sally, John, Nellie, Elizabeth and Lydia. Maggie married Lewis Bates, a retired merchant, and died in 1874. Barbara is the wife of Benjamin F. Hogentogler, a machinist. Anna married Jerry McCracken, a cigar dealer. Grace, deceased, was the wife of Frank Stucker. Sally became Mrs. William Bell, of Columbia, her husband being a railway conductor. Nellie married George McKinney, a car inspector of that place. John, Elizabeth and Lydia died in childhood.
Mrs. Adams is a daughter of William and Caroline (Heaffner) Bupp, and was born in Marietta, Pa., Nov. 19, 1866. Both her parents were of German birth, although they were married at Marietta. Her father died in 1880 and her mother in 1874. They were members of the German Lutheran Church. She has one sister, Margaret, whose husband, Henry Rettew, is a puddler. They, too, reside in Columbia.
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