Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 290.
 
FREDERICK E. ADAMS, M. D.
 
     Among the leading and most distinguished members of the medical profession
in Eugene, Lane county, stands Dr. Frederick E. Adams, who commands in large
measure public confidence and esteem. He was born in Roseburg, Oregon, in 1880,
and is a son of Matthew and Serena (Sutherland) Adams, the former of whom was a
native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana, though their marriage occurred in
Oregon. Both are now deceased. In the paternal line the Doctor is descended from
the same family from which sprang John Quincy Adams. His father crossed the
plains to California during the historic gold rush of 1849 and took twenty-two
thousand dollars worth of gold out of that state. He then came to Oregon and
took up a tract of government land near Roseburg, where he created a good farm
and there spent his remaining years. The mother crossed the plains with her
parents in 1850.
 
     After securing a good elementary education in the public schools, Frederick
E. Adams entered the Oregon Agricultural College, at Corvallis, where he was
graduated in 1906, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then matriculated
in the medical school of the University of Oregon, where he received the degree
of doctor of medicine in 1911. He served as interne in the Good Samaritan
Hospital in Portland and then engaged in the practice of medicine in that city
in partnership with Dr. A. E. McKay. One year later he went to Harrisburg, this
state, where he practiced six years in partnership with Dr. Dale.
 
     In the spring of 1918 Dr. Adams enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United
States Navy, and was commissioned a first lieutenant, being assigned to
transport duty. He crossed the Atlantic eight times and at the close of the war
was honorably-discharged. He then came to Eugene and has since been actively
engaged in the practice of medicine, specializing in obstetrics and diseases of
women. He is a member of the medical staff of the Pacific Christian Hospital and
is chief of the staff of Mercy Hospital.
 
     On June 26, 1909, Dr. Adams was united in marriage to Miss Katherine
Hanson, of Portland, and they are the parents of two children, Frederick and
Katherine. The Doctor is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. the
American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Modern Woodmen of America,
as well as the Chamber of Commerce. He maintains professional affiliation with
the Lane County Medical Society, the Willamette Valley Medical Society, the
Oregon State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has been
successful in material affairs and is the owner of a fine nut ranch near Eugene,
where he has a comfortable and attractive home. He is a man of high ideals, is
true to the essential ethics of his profession and has gained wide recognition
as an able and trustworthy physician, as well as a worthy citizen of his
community.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in December 2016 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.