Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886.  Barren County.

ADAMS, JOSEPH H., justice of the peace, was born June 16, 1841, in the 
southern part of Barren County, and is the second of five sons and two 
daughters of Hardin C. and Mary Ann (Mansfield) Adams.  Hardin C. was 
born in November, 1815, six miles south of Glasgow, where he now 
resides; he has been a very successful farmer, and at one time owned 
negroes; his parents were William and Margaret (Kinslow) Adams.  William 
was born at Boone's Fort, and having lost his mother, was taken when yet 
a child by his uncle, Elijah Mansfield, to Logan County, where he was 
reared. He was a soldier of 1812, and fought in the battle of 
Tippecanoe. He came to Barren County in 1800, and settled in Glasgow, 
where Hardin C. Adams now resides. He was a bricklayer, and assisted in 
building the first brick houses in Glasgow, and also carried on farming. 
His first crop, a few acres of corn, he harvested, and then went to 
searh for work at this trade; was absent several months, and on his 
return found that his entire crop had been taken by squirrels.  His 
father, Elijah Adams, was born in Holland, and about the middle of the 
eighteenth century, with his father and seven brothers entered the army 
in the war for independence; but two returned.  Mrs. Mary Ann Adams was 
a daughter of Thomas and Matilda (Tribble) Mansfield. Joseph H. Adams 
was educated at the common schools and Leitchfield Seminary.  At the age 
of nineteen he took up the profession of teaching, taught eight years in 
Barren and adjoining counties. In 1868 he engaged in the mercantile 
business two miles east of Glasgow Junctions, where he remained until 
January, 1870, when his store and its contents were swept away by the 
cyclone, after which he engaged in farming.  In 1874 he moved to Glasgow 
Junction, where for two years he engaged in the mercantile business for 
Dr. Parish.  He then located where he now resides, just west of the 
Junction, on twenty-five acres.  In February, 1866, he married Mollie 
Ferguson of Butler County, a daughter of Dr. R. M. and Harriet (Duncan) 
Ferguson, who were respectively born in Scotland and LaRue County, Ky., 
the Duncans were of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of 
the Christian Church.  Seven children were born to their union: Anna M., 
Mallie, Robert C. (deceased), Benjamin F., Alice O., Bessie B., and 
Cleveland.  Mr. Adams is a member of the Masonic fraternity; in politics 
he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. 
MacClellan.  He was elected justice of the peace in 1882.

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