Levi Adams

{{short description|19th century American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{infobox officeholder |name = Levi Adams |office = Member of the Council of Appointment |term_start = 1820 |term_end = 1821 |predecessor = |successor = |state1 = New York |state_senate1 = New York |district1 = Lewis County |term_start1 = 1818 |term_end1 = 1822 |predecessor1 = |successor1 = |party = |birth_date = {{birth date|1762|12|30}} |birth_place = Simsbury, Connecticut Colony |death_date = {{death date and age|1831|6|18|1762|12|30}} |death_place = |resting_place = East Road Cemetery, {{nobreak|Lowville, New York}} |spouse = {{marriage|Ruth Stevens1892|1831}} |children = {{unbulleted list | Levi Finch Adams | {{sup|(b. 1788; died 1855)}} | Dillon Adams | {{sup|(b. 1797; died 1812)}} | James Madison Adams | {{sup|(b. 1813; died 1864)}} }} |allegiance = United States |branch = New York Militia |battles = American Revolutionary War }} '''Levi Adams''' (December 30, 1762{{snd}}June 18, 1831) was an American farmer and politician. He served in the New York Senate from 1818 through 1822, representing Lewis County, and was a member of New York's Council of Appointment in 1820. As a young man during the American Revolutionary War, he served in the New York militia.<ref name="svcf">{{cite web|title=Adams|url=http://www.seeleycreekvalleyfarm.com/a_seeley.pdf|website=Seeley Valley Creek Farm|accessdate=28 December 2017|ref=svcf|archive-date=July 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703202740/http://www.seeleycreekvalleyfarm.com/a_seeley.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="fond">{{cite book|url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89064053028 |title= Portrait and Biographical Album of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin |year= 1889 |publisher= Acme Publishing Co. |location= Chicago |pages= 325–326|access-date= February 4, 2022 }}</ref>

His youngest son, James M. Adams, became a prominent physician and pioneer settler at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Two of his grandsons died in the service of the Union Army during the American Civil War.<ref name="fond"/>

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Category:Farmers from New York (state) Category:People from the Province of New York Category:New York (state) state senators Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature