Born on March 10, 1854, Willis A. Adams grew up on a small frontier farm near Goshen, Indiana. His heritage can be traced to the Adams family in Massachusetts, which included John Adams and John Quincy Adams. While growing up, Adams gained a practical earnestness that was a natural consequence of long hours of hard work on his father's farm. At an early age, he displayed an ingenious resourcefulness for inventing and making tools.
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