Elmore J. Adams (1852-1914) was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, and died in Alton, Illinois. He married Rosamond Adams (b. Corwin) in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1874, and they were living in Beloit, Wisconsin, by 1880. He was involved in building and operating straw paper manufacturing mills and was also in the real estate business. Around 1907 they moved to Peoria, Illinois, and finally to Alton around 1911. He studied Christian Science with Silas J. Sawyer, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students.
Adams was associated with Edward A. Kimball in the firm Barrett, Kimball, & Adams, a straw board company, and introduced Kimball to Christian Science. Kimball subsequently became Eddy's student and went on to hold several significant roles in the early Christian Science movement. Both Adams and his wife joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 1893. They were also members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beloit, with Adams serving as its clerk in the early 1900s. Adams and his wife were both practitioners, Adams being listed in The Christian Science Journal from 1896 until 1905, and his wife from 1896 until 1917. Adams was a Mason and a member of the Piasa Lodge in Alton.
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Elmore J. Adams (1852-1914) was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, and died in Alton, Illinois. He married Rosamond Adams (b. Corwin) in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1874, and they were living in Beloit, Wisconsin, by 1880. He was involved in building and operating straw paper manufacturing mills and was also in the real estate business. Around 1907 they moved to Peoria, Illinois, and finally to Alton around 1911. He studied Christian Science with Silas J. Sawyer, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students.
Adams was associated with Edward A. Kimball in the firm Barrett, Kimball, & Adams, a straw board company, and introduced Kimball to Christian Science. Kimball subsequently became Eddy's student and went on to hold several significant roles in the early Christian Science movement. Both Adams and his wife joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 1893. They were also members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beloit, with Adams serving as its clerk in the early 1900s. Adams and his wife were both practitioners, Adams being listed in The Christian Science Journal from 1896 until 1905, and his wife from 1896 until 1917. Adams was a Mason and a member of the Piasa Lodge in Alton.
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