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John C. McAdams, member of the firm of Magruder, McAdams & Co., wagon and carriage manufacturers of Bentonville, Ark., was born in Meigs County, Tenn., in 1844, and is the son of James and Mary (Neal) McAdams. The father was born in East Tennessee in 1825, and was a blacksmith by trade. In 1851 he immigrated to Polk County, Mo., and located at Bolivar, he was a soldier in the Black Hawk War, and while in service was run over by a wagon, which so crippled him that he had to return home. He was also in the late war, and rendered effective service. In 1877 he removed to Berryville, Ark., and there died in July, 1883. His wife, Mary (Neal) McAdams, was born in Virginia in 1824, and was of Irish extraction. She is yet living in Berryville, and is the mother of fourteen children, six of whom are now living. John G. was the eldest of this family, and was seven years old when his parents moved to Missouri. He was in his father’s shop a great deal, but did not commence work until seventeen years of age, when he worked with his father about seven years. In 1872 he married Miss Mary S. Wood, who was born in Polk County, Mo., in 1855, and who became the mother of three children: Henry F., John W. and Alfred B. Mrs. McAdams died in 1879, and in March, 1885, Mr. McAdams married Mrs. Rachel (Wood) Gilmore, daughter of John Wood. To this union was born one child, Ethel. Mr. Adams remained in Polk County, Mo., until 1872, when he moved to Monroe County, of the same State, and there resided four years. He next located in Pope County, Ark., and worked at his trade a portion of the time, but for a few months clerked in a store. In 1878 he came to Bentonville, Ark.; he and John K. Putnam became partners, and he carried on his trade for four years. He then sold out and for two years was in the hardware business with the same partner, but soon after bought out his partner and took in B. F. Allison, to whom he sold out four months later. In 1884 Mr. McAdams purchased an interest in the carriage and wagon manufactory with Samuel Magruder and George W. Garrett. They manufacture spring wagons, buggies, and do all kinds of wood-work; also have a general repair shop. Mr. McAdams is a Democrat, is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Mrs. McAdams is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.