Charles Powell Adams

Charles Powell Adams (March 3, 1831 – November 2, 1893) was a Colonel in the Union Army, physician and politician. He was a territorial house member and a senator in the Minnesota legislature, and also served as mayor of Hastings, Minnesota, for one term. During the Civil War, he fought at the Battle of Malvern Hill, the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded.

He was a member of the Minnesota State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, an honorary member of the State Medical Society of California, and a member and ex-president of the Rocky Mountain Medical Society. He was also a member of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Minnesota.

Biography Charles Powell Adams was born on March 3, 1831, in Rainsburg, Pennsylvania. He was of English, Scottish and German descent. He attended public schools and the Bedford Academy in Coshocton County, Ohio. At the age of 18, he studied medicine for one year with Dr. W. R. Waddell in West Bedford, Ohio. He then studied with two doctors in Amity, Knox County, Ohio, before entering the Ohio Medical College, where he graduated from in 1851. The following year he started a practice in Waymansville, Indiana, where he remained until 1854, when he then moved to Hastings, Minnesota.

After he was mustered out at the end of the Civil War, Adams was a commander of a cavalry and artillery, that led a successful campaign against the Sioux in 1866. In 1877 he was elected president of the Dakota County Veterans Association.