Durham, N. N.  "Spokane and the Inland Empire; History of the City of Spokane
and Spokane County Washington."  Vol. 3.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.  
p. 423.
 
O. L. ADAMS, A.B., M.D.

     Dr. O. L. Adams, conducting the Davenport Hospital, is recognized as one of
the promising young members of the medical profession of Lincoln county.  He is
a native of Oregon, his birth having occurred in Yamhill county, on the 27th of
October, 1879, and a son of James S. and Luella (King) Adams.  The parents were
born, reared and married in California, whence they took the overland route to
Oregon in 1871.  There they resided for nine years during which time the father
devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits and mining, with varying success.
In 1880, the family came to Whitman county, Washington, settling in the vicinity
of Pullman, where the father filed on a homestead to the cultivation and
improvement of which he assiduously applied himself with constantly increasing
prosperity for many years. He continues to live on his ranch and is now numbered
among the prominent and substantial pioneers of that section.
     When old enough to begin his education, Dr. Adams entered the public
schools of Colfax, and after the completion of his high-school course he entered
the State College at Pullman, where he pursued an economic and scientific
course, being awarded the degree of A.B. with the class of 1902.  He had decided
to become a physician and in the following autumn, matriculated in the Rush
Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in 1906. After
receiving his degree he returned to Washington, locating in Sprague where he was
associated in practice with Dr. Hamley for eighteen months. At the expiration of
that period he sold out to his partner and came to Davenport and engaged with
other doctors in conducting the Davenport Hospital. During the period of his
connection with the profession of Lincoln county, Dr. Adams has had ample
opportunity to manifest his skill both as a general practitioner and surgeon,
and has proven himself unusually well qualified for the duties of both. He is
constantly striving to advance in his profession and keeps in close touch with
the progress and development of medical science through the medium of the
various periodicals, which give in detail the more recent discoveries achieved
through the research of the eminent physicians and scientists of the world. He
is very progressive in his ideas and is indefatigable in his efforts to obtain
better results in his endeavors to alleviate suffering and restore health to the
afflicted, but he never adopts a new method until convinced that it is in every
way more efficacious than the old established mode of treatment.
     At Clarkeston, Washington, on the 5th of July, 1905, Dr. Adams was united
in marriage to Miss Laura Nelson, a daughter of O. B. and Angle (Clayton)
Nelson, the father a prominent pioneer settler of Spokane, and they have become
the parents of two children, Louis Nelson and Geraldine.
     Dr. and Mrs. Adams attend the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he is
affiliated with the Masonic order, Eastern Star and the Knights of Pythias.
During his college days he belonged to the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity and the
Alpha Omega, and while living at Colfax he was actively identified with the
Washington State Militia, being second and first lieutenant and captain of the
local company. His political support is given to the men and measures of the
republican party and he has served as city and county physician and for one term
he discharged the duties of coroner. Dr. Adams is president of the Lincoln
County Medical Society, and he is also a member of the State Society and the
American Medical Association. He has met with good financial success in his
practice and is one of the stock-holders of the Empire State Life Insurance
Company and the Pacific Building & Loan Association. He is an exceedingly busy
man as his professional services are very greatly in demand and he is most
conscientious in his devotion to the interests of his patients.

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in October 2008 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.