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HENRY C. ADAMI

Henry C. Adami, residing in Wallace, is the superintendent of the sampling works
of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. His birth occurred in Helena, Montana,
on the 28th of April, 1879, his parents being Henry and Elizabeth (Maas) Adami.
About 1870 the father emigrated from Germany to the United States, settling in
Helena, Montana, where he did a freighting and real-estate business. Going back
to the fatherland, he was there married and then again crossed the Atlantic and
returned to Helena, where he continued in the business of rock quarrying and
acquired considerable real estate. He still makes his home at Helena, and has
attained the age of about fifty-eight years.

Henry C. Adami obtained his education in the grammar and high schools of Helena
and after putting aside his text-books secured employment as a bookkeeper. In
1897 he began the study of assaying, chemistry and mining engineering with
Braden Brothers of Helena, with whom he remained for two years. On the
expiration of that period he became assayer and chemist for Thomas Cruse, of the
celebrated Bald Mountain mine at Marysville, Montana, but resigned at the end of
eight months to take the position of assistant assayer for the Peck
Concentrating Company of East Helena, Montana. In a short time he was made the
chemist of the concern, with which he remained for eight months, then becoming
timekeeper and top foreman at the Gagnon mine in Butte, Montana, under the
supervision of William Ward. After thus serving for another period of eight
months he became identified, in 1901, with the Northwestern Sampling Works at
Wallace, Idaho, then owned and operated by G. D. Potter and C. M. Witloff. In
May, 1902, these gentlemen sold their plant to the Mine Owners' Association with
which Mr. Adami continued as chief assayer. In October, 1902, when the Mine
Owners' Association sold the plan to the American Smelting & Refining Company,
our subject remained therein, acting as assayer and chemist for the Mine Owners'
Association and M. E. Fisher, representing the American Smelting & Refining
Company. In October, 1903, the American Smelting & Refining Company sold the
plant back to the Mine Owners' Association and Mr. Adami was appointed its
superintendent. In the spring of 1906, when the Federal Mining & Smelting
Company acquired all the interests of the Mine Owners' Association, including
the sampling works, Mr. Adami continued to do all the assaying and also
superintended the operation of the plant, making all settlements for ore at that
place. From that time to the present he has remained a valuable and trusted
representative of the company.

On the 8th of June, 1904, Mr. Adami was united in marriage to Miss Rowena
McDiarmid, a daughter of J. C. McDiarmid, of Wallace, Idaho, who was one of the
early pioneers of the Coeur d'Alene district, coming to Murray, Idaho, with the
first . gold rush. During the troublesome times in that district he served as
deputy sheriff under Angus Sutherland. Mr. and Mrs. Adami have one daughter,
Dorothy, who was born in 1907.

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in June 2017 by Diane Wright.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.