JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ---Son of Elias and Belinda Adams, was born May 15, 1832, near Columbus, Adams County, Illinois. His father was one of the first settlers in Adams County and from whom the county derived its name. In early life the subject of this sketch learned the brick makers trade, and for many years followed that business in connection with his farm duties.

In May, 1850, he, in company with his father, emigrated to Utah, and was engaged in farming and stock-raising until the first of June, 1853, at which time he came to Carson Valley, and located on the ranch now owned by Joseph Jones, and has since resided in this valley. In connection with his brother, under the firm name of R. and J. Q Adams, was engaged in the same occupation as in Utah.

After a time they sold one-half of the ranch and built the fine brick residence in which Mr.  Adams now lives, and for about five years kept a hotel. He says "those were the happiest days of my life," everything brought almost fabulous prices; hay was worth from forty to eighty dollars per ton; barley half a dollar a pound, etc. Going back to his former business he made the brick used in the construction of the United States Branch Mint, at Carson City, also for the Court House at Genoa. 

Mr. Adams was married to Miss Ellen Dolan, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Welch) Dolan, October 1, 1856. By this union there are three children, all living. The following are their names and date of birth: Mary Lydia, July 18, 1867; John Elias, December 24, 1868; William Rufus, November 16, 1871.  In politics, Mr. Adams is a Republican, but takes no active part therein. His ranch is under a good state of cultivation, and well adapted to the growing of all kinds of grain, vegetables and hay.

JOHN S. CHILD ----Was born in Derby, Orleans County, Vermont, on the first of September, 1825, where he lived until twenty-one years of age, when he went to Massachusetts, and resided until he came to the Pacific Coast in 1852. On the fifth of April of the last-named year, he sailed from New York for the Pacific Coast on the ship Northern Light the first trip made by that boat, and came by the Nicaragua route. His first experience in California, was in the mines at Placerville, El Dorado County, where he spent between two and three years.

In July, 1854, he came to Carson Valley, Nevada, where he has since resided. During the first four years in this place he was engaged in merchandising;, and since then has given his attention to stock-raising. In 1858 he received the appointment of Probate Judge, of Carson County, and held the office until the creation of Nevada Territory.  This office was not sought by him and he has never known to whom he was indebted for the appointment. 

After the organization of Douglas County, he was appointed County Commissioner, and in 1870 was elected a member of the Assembly. In 1859 he was married to Miss A. E. Lufkin, of Placerville, California, who departed this life in February, 1873.  He was again married in February, 1874, to Miss Eveline A. Gilbert, of Carson City, Nevada, a native of Cato, Cayuga County, New York, born January 14, 1826, and came to California in 1852, where she lived until 1861, when she came to Carson City, Nevada.

AUGUSTUS F. DRESSLER ----Son of Christian and Maria Dressler, was born in Mulhausen, Germany, on the twenty-ninth of May, 1831. He learned the trade of dyeing and printing calico in his boyhood, and followed that business until he came to America. Leaving his native country on the seventh of March, 1851, he arrived in New York on the second of May, same year.

He experienced many difficulties upon landing in the United States from being unable to speak the English language.  His first situation in his adopted country was with a farmer on Long Island, where he worked two years, and afterward moved to Minnesota, fifty miles north of St. Paul, to the town of Monticello, and entered the employ of Geo. M. Botram, for whom he worked seven years.

In 1860 Mr. Dressler started for California, with three wagons drawn by oxen, and arrived in Carson Valley, Nevada, in the fall of the same year, being six months in making the trip.  Hearing that times were dull in the country he had started for, he concluded to remain in Carson Valley, and soon found employment. In 1863 he purchased a ranch on the west fork of the Carson River and settled down to improve the same. In 1875 he bought a ranch in Sheridan, and has since resided there.

In 1866 he was married to Augusta Wilhelmina Dietz, daughter of Christian F. and Christina Dietz, natives of Morsch. Mrs., Dressler was born in Erfust, in Germany. Their union has been blessed with five children, the following being their names and date of birth: Maria F., July 18, 1868; L. Adolphe, December 26, 1869; Wilhelm F., March 9,1871; Rosalie, April 11, 1873; Clara A., July 18, 1875. Christian Fritz. a son of Mrs. Dressier by a former marriage, is recognized as one of this family, and is a bright, active boy of seventeen years.  In politics Mr. Dressler is a staunch Republican; in religion, a Protestant.