BIO: James ADAMSON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 812 & 813.
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  JAMES ADAMSON, who holds the important position of foreman of the Grass Flat 
mines for the Clearfield County Bituminous Coal Corporation, is a representative 
citizen of Peale, Pa., and a miner of extended experience, having been 
identified with coal mining in Pennsylvania for forty-four years in addition to 
shorter periods in other places.  Mr. Adamson was born March 26, 1846, in 
Fifeshire, Scotland, and is a son of Campbell and Elizabeth (Hunter) Adamson.
  Campbell Adamson was a miner in the coal regions of Scotland from boyhood 
until the end of his active life.  Both he and wife were born there, married, 
reared children and finally passed away in the land of their birth.  They had 
four children:  Andrew, John, Thomas and James.
  James Anderson was only nine years old when he began work in the coal mines, 
this industry being the main one in the vicinity of his home, and he continued 
in the mines in Scotland until 1864, when he came to America.  Mining was his 
business and he learned facts concerning the main mining sections before he 
located in Bradford county, Pa., where he was employed by the Bartlett Coal 
Company.  He remained with that company for one year and then went to the 
Fallbrook Company, of Tioga county, for a year, later went to Arnett and worked 
in the mines there for two years.  In 1870 he went to California and tried gold 
mining for three years, but in 1873 came back to Pennsylvania.  Before resuming 
business relations with any of the mining companies after his return, he made a 
visit to Scotland, where he renewed old friendships and enjoyed companionship 
with his kindred.
  When Mr. Adamson came back to Pennsylvania, he entered the employ of the 
McIntire Coal Company, in Lycoming county, this being in 1874, with which he 
continued until 1883, when he came to Peale, which place has been his home for 
twenty-eight years.  For the past sixteen years he has been mine foreman for the 
Clearfield County Bituminous Coal Corporation, and for thirteen of these has 
been foreman at Grass Flat.  This long continuance with one company proves that 
Mr. Adamson is a reliable and experienced man.  Personally he is highly thought 
of both by his employers and by the hundreds of workers who each year are under 
his supervision.
  Mr. Adamson was married in 1878, to Miss Helen Ramage, daughter of William 
Ramage, of Fifeshire, Scotland.  Mrs. Adamson was born in Scotland but was 
married in America.  Mr. and Mrs. Adamson have had three children, two sons and 
one daughter:  Campbell, Elizabeth and James.  None of these children survived 
infancy.  Mr. and Mrs. Adamson are Presbyterians.  He is a member of Moshannon 
Lodge, No. 391, F. & A. M., at Philipsburg, and Peale Lodge of Odd Fellows.  In 
politics Mr. Adamson is a Republican.  In 1910 he made a second visit to his 
native land, remaining two months.