ADAMS, Henry Cullen, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Verona, Oneida County, N.Y., November 28,
1850; moved to Wisconsin in 1851 with his parents, who
settled in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County; attended the
public schools, Albion Academy, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member
of the Wisconsin assembly 1883-1885; State superintendent
of public property 1884-1890; engaged in work with the Wisconsin farmers’ institutes 1887-1889; president of the Wisconsin Dairy Association and secretary of the State Horticultural Society; State dairy and food commissioner 1895-
1902; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fiftyninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his
death in Chicago, Ill., July 9, 1906; interment in Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.