Henry Adams

Henry (Harry) Adams (1851 – 7 June 1926) was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a United Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1894 to 1902, representing Central District. He also served as president of the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia and was a long-serving secretary of the Railways Service Association.

Early life Adams was born in Tungkillo, South Australia, elder son of Henry Adams Sr., and soon after moved with his parents to a farm in Mount Barker. His father found work at the Callington mine. and treasurer of the Adelaide Cooperative Society. He was a longtime member of the Pirie Street Methodist Church, on the Council of the School of Mines, and the Board of Elder Homes. He was a former Secretary of the Amalgamated Railways Association. He was for twenty years a trustee of the Savings Bank of South Australia.

Personal life At 18 years of age he began preaching at the Mount Barker Methodist Church circuit, but resisted suggestions that he make the Church his vocation.

Adams had a brother in Broken Hill and three sisters.

He was married with two sons Henry Gordon Adams and Victor E. Adams, and a daughter, Mrs. Lattimore; he died at 4 Audley Avenue, Prospect, the home of his son H. G. Adams, and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery.