St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-03
GEN. C. P. ADAMS is DEAD.
THE VETERAN DEMOCRAT PASSES
AWAY AT KERMiLLi0N. :,
HIS BRILLIANT WAR RECORD.
Starting in as Captain of Com
pany III, First Regiment,
He Comes Home Brigadier
General-His Service in the
Legislature = Founder of the
Hastings Democrat,

General-His Service in the
Legislature = Founder of the
Hastings Democrat.
Special to the Globe.
HASTINGS, Mimi, Nov. 2.-Our Gift.
Zens and those in the vicinity mourn the
loss today of Gen. G. P. Adams, who
died at his home in Vermillion at 1:30l
p. m. from cancer of the stomach after a
two months illness. They mourn in his
death the loss of one of the ablest, most
public-sDirited and patriotic citizens
that ever lived in Dakota county, and
his memory will long be cherished. He
was one Of the best known physicians
and surgeons in the Northwest. Gen.
G. Powell Adams was born in RAINS
burg. Bedford county, Pennsylvania.
March 3, 1881. Received an academic,
as well as a medical education, in Ohioa
In 1852 in Wymansyille, Bartholomew
county, Indiana, was married to Miss
Florence j. Buxton, who died in Hast
ings, Mimi, ill 1858. In 1854 settled in
Hastings, Mimi. being married for a
second time to Mrs. Mary S. Petit,
bone on Nov. 90, 1878, who stilii
survives him. lie leaves by hiS
first wife son, William Ii. Adams, an
attorney of Minneapolis. and daughter,
Mrs. Flora j. Pattee, wife of w. E.
Pattee, engineer on the River division.
He removed that year to Vermillion,.
where he has resided until his
death. At the first call of troops DR.. G.
P. Adams formed Company II, First
Minnesota volunteer infantry, enlisting
as private, subsequently being elected
captain OF that company, and was final.
ly promoted to brigadIer general, hisI
last commission being issued by recon-.
mendatIon of Maj. Gen. Winfield s.
Hancock. for gallantry and bravery at
the battle Of Gettysburg. The cons'
mand given the First Minnesota in their
famous charge at this battle was given
by Gen. Hancock in person to Adams,
then lieutenant colonel, and by him to
the regiment. Served with the First,
Minnesota from the date of enlistment
to the final discharge III 1864,
participating in all the important bat
ties in which that regimentwaS engaged,
was shot thirteen times, nine bullet
wounds being in the left side between
the knee and shoulder, six of them being
received at the battle of Getty sburg.
Upon his discharge in 1864 ne again
enlisted in military service in the United
States, and took command of the terri
tory of Dakota and portion of Minne-
sofa, under Gen. Corse, with headquar-
ters at Fort Abercrombie, where he re-
manned until his discharge, in the sum-
mer of 1866. During his last service he
conducted two expeditions against the
hostile Sioux. in the last of which cap
turing 176 Cut-Head Sioux, clos.
ing the Indian outbreak. PoIit-
cally he was lifelong and stalwart
Democrat. He established the Hastings
Democrat in the territorial days. He
served in the last territorial and first
state legislatures of Minnesota. In 1877
he was elected state senator from Da-
kota county, serving four years. He
was a member of the state medical,
American medical. and Rocky Mountain
societies. He belonged to Dakota Lodge
No. Z, A. F. & A. NJ. being its first mas
ter. He also belonged to Damascus
commandry. Knights Templar, of st.
Paul; Hastings Lodge No. As, A. o. U.
w., and Peller Post No. SO, q. A. R., OF
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