Hubert Adam
Hubert Adam, a native of France, was born April 22, 1820. In 1840 he, in company with his parents, Claude and Magdalena. Adam, emigrated to America and located in Shelby County, Ohio, purchased and settled on the southwest quarter of section 8, Loramie Township, on which his father, Claude Adam, died Sept. 4, 1843, at the age of seventy-two years. His mother, Magdalena Adam, died Sept. 14, 1845. Hubert Adam, the subject of this sketch, has made farming his vocation, and now owns a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres, on which he has resided since 1848. On the 10th of January 1849, he married Miss Mary J. Bushwaw, then of Urbana, Ohio, but a native of France, where she was born Dec. 24, 1830, and came to Ohio with her parents, Hubert and Mary Bushwaw, in 1840. By this union he had seven children, five of whom are now living, viz., August H., Margaret Virginia, Mary Adaline, Mary Louisa, and Charles J. Mr. Adam filled the office of treasurer of Loramie Township about five years. He is esteemed and highly respected by all who know him.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883