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[Pioneer] Edson Adams





Edson F Adams was not listed in the Jan 1922 Oakland Pioneer Membership List but he is listed on LocalWiki as being one of Oakland's three founders and in newspapers as being eligible to be an Oakland Pioneer and shows up on the Oakland Pioneer Walk.


Edson Adams (1824–1888) was one of Oakland’s three founders (along with Horace W. Carpentier and Andrew Moon). Adams was born in Connecticut and came to San Francisco in 1849 because of the gold rush. He came to Oakland in 1850.


Adams (along with Carpentier and Moon) leased 160 acres along Broadway from Vicente Peralta, and the trio illegally sold lots to other arrivals to Oakland. According to one source, when these three bought the land, the country was a “wilderness.” The trio (along with silent partner Alfred Burrell) hired Julius Kellersberger to plan the physical layout of the city. The Adams Point neighborhood was named after Mr. Adams, because he owned the area for quite some time.


He married Hannah Jayne, Oakland’s first schoolteacher (look for a nice painting of her on the back wall of the Oakland History Room). One of their children, Edson F. Adams, was the person that inherited the majority of Adams Point, and refused to develop or sell the property for decades, hoping to gouge Oakland to the max.


In 1869 the office of Edson Adams was located on the northwest corner of Broadway and Water Streets. He resided on 6th Street, between Grove and and Castro Streets.




Oakland Tribune - Sat - Nov. 1, 1879


1870 Census:

Name Edson Adams

Age in 1870 45

Birth Date abt 1825

Birthplace Connecticut

Dwelling Number 1627

Home in 1870 Oakland, Alameda, California

Race White

Gender Male

Post Office Oakland

Occupation Real Estate Agent

Male Citizen Over 21 Yes

Personal Estate Value 5000

Real Estate Value 200000

Inferred Spouse Hanna Adams

Inferred Children

Julia Adams

Edson Adams

John Adams

Household Members (Name) Age

Edson Adams 45

Hanna Adams 40

Julia Adams 11

Edson Adams 9

John Adams 7

H E Jayne 24

G A Smith 22

Jim Ah 18

Mung Ah

Denis Murry 35

View of de la Montanya home at NW corner 6th & Grove (MLK) St formerly home of Edson Adams.




Name Edson Adams

Gender Male

Birth Date 1824

Birth Place Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America

Death Date 1888

Death Place Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States of America

Cemetery Mountain View Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States of America

Father Isaac Adams

Mother Sarah Adams

Spouse Hannah Adams

Children

Edson Francis Adams

Julia P. Prather

John Charles Adams





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