In 1903 Walter K Adams arrived in the little frontier town of Sidney from Fairbault, Minnesota. His brother Burton Adams, had already come to Sidney to survey for an irrigation system bringing water from the Yellowstone River to the Yellowstone Valley dryland farms. Burton had urged W K as his brother was called, to establish a bank in the new little town. A year later W. K. brought his wife and four daughters Sidney. The First National Bank had by then been established with Tom Gardner, also of Faribault, as a partner. Until their new home was built, two blocks west, the Adams family lived in housekeeping rooms above the bank.
A small one room schooolhouse stood at the north edge of town with its customary potbellied wood stove in the center of the room, where E. A. Kenoyer taught all eight grades for the 20 or so pupils. When the two older Adams girls were ready for high school, there being only a grade school, they returned to Faribault, Minnesota for their high school education, then continued on to Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, enjoying summers in Sidney with the family.
Today the Adams family has vanished from the town. W. K. died in 1934 at the age of 70. Mrs. Adams eventually moved back to Minnesota to live with her daughter, Mary, now Mrs. A. W. Unumb, still living in Alexandria, Minnestoa. Mrs. Adams died there in 1942. The graves of both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are in the Sidney Cemetery. The other three daughters have scattered, Georgia is a retired high school teacher living in Watertown, South Dakota, where she moved in 1924 to teach. Mabel lives in Minot, North Dakota where she taught for a number of years. Winifred Adams Mallick is a widow living in Missoula, Montana, where one son, Richard, and his family also live, Another son, Bill, and family live in Casper, Wyoming.
The home the Adams family built in sidney still stands at the corner of what is now 121 Second Avenue Southwest, directly across from what was the first "home" of the People's Congregational Church, which Mr. and Mrs. Adams had helped to establish with Rev. Mr. J. W. Anderson its first minister. Eventually Billy combes bought the Adams home.
A small one room schooolhouse stood at the north edge of town with its customary potbellied wood stove in the center of the room, where E. A. Kenoyer taught all eight grades for the 20 or so pupils. When the two older Adams girls were ready for high school, there being only a grade school, they returned to Faribault, Minnesota for their high school education, then continued on to Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, enjoying summers in Sidney with the family.
Today the Adams family has vanished from the town. W. K. died in 1934 at the age of 70. Mrs. Adams eventually moved back to Minnesota to live with her daughter, Mary, now Mrs. A. W. Unumb, still living in Alexandria, Minnestoa. Mrs. Adams died there in 1942. The graves of both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are in the Sidney Cemetery. The other three daughters have scattered, Georgia is a retired high school teacher living in Watertown, South Dakota, where she moved in 1924 to teach. Mabel lives in Minot, North Dakota where she taught for a number of years. Winifred Adams Mallick is a widow living in Missoula, Montana, where one son, Richard, and his family also live, Another son, Bill, and family live in Casper, Wyoming.
The home the Adams family built in sidney still stands at the corner of what is now 121 Second Avenue Southwest, directly across from what was the first "home" of the People's Congregational Church, which Mr. and Mrs. Adams had helped to establish with Rev. Mr. J. W. Anderson its first minister. Eventually Billy combes bought the Adams home.
In 1903 Walter K Adams arrived in the little frontier town of Sidney from Fairbault, Minnesota. His brother Burton Adams, had already come to Sidney to survey for an irrigation system bringing water from the Yellowstone River to the Yellowstone Valley dryland farms. Burton had urged W K as his brother was called, to establish a bank in the new little town. A year later W. K. brought his wife and four daughters Sidney. The First National Bank had by then been established with Tom Gardner, also of Faribault, as a partner. Until their new home was built, two blocks west, the Adams family lived in housekeeping rooms above the bank.
A small one room schooolhouse stood at the north edge of town with its customary potbellied wood stove in the center of the room, where E. A. Kenoyer taught all eight grades for the 20 or so pupils. When the two older Adams girls were ready for high school, there being only a grade school, they returned to Faribault, Minnesota for their high school education, then continued on to Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, enjoying summers in Sidney with the family.
Today the Adams family has vanished from the town. W. K. died in 1934 at the age of 70. Mrs. Adams eventually moved back to Minnesota to live with her daughter, Mary, now Mrs. A. W. Unumb, still living in Alexandria, Minnestoa. Mrs. Adams died there in 1942. The graves of both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are in the Sidney Cemetery. The other three daughters have scattered, Georgia is a retired high school teacher living in Watertown, South Dakota, where she moved in 1924 to teach. Mabel lives in Minot, North Dakota where she taught for a number of years. Winifred Adams Mallick is a widow living in Missoula, Montana, where one son, Richard, and his family also live, Another son, Bill, and family live in Casper, Wyoming.
The home the Adams family built in sidney still stands at the corner of what is now 121 Second Avenue Southwest, directly across from what was the first "home" of the People's Congregational Church, which Mr. and Mrs. Adams had helped to establish with Rev. Mr. J. W. Anderson its first minister. Eventually Billy combes bought the Adams home.
A small one room schooolhouse stood at the north edge of town with its customary potbellied wood stove in the center of the room, where E. A. Kenoyer taught all eight grades for the 20 or so pupils. When the two older Adams girls were ready for high school, there being only a grade school, they returned to Faribault, Minnesota for their high school education, then continued on to Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, enjoying summers in Sidney with the family.
Today the Adams family has vanished from the town. W. K. died in 1934 at the age of 70. Mrs. Adams eventually moved back to Minnesota to live with her daughter, Mary, now Mrs. A. W. Unumb, still living in Alexandria, Minnestoa. Mrs. Adams died there in 1942. The graves of both Mr. and Mrs. Adams are in the Sidney Cemetery. The other three daughters have scattered, Georgia is a retired high school teacher living in Watertown, South Dakota, where she moved in 1924 to teach. Mabel lives in Minot, North Dakota where she taught for a number of years. Winifred Adams Mallick is a widow living in Missoula, Montana, where one son, Richard, and his family also live, Another son, Bill, and family live in Casper, Wyoming.
The home the Adams family built in sidney still stands at the corner of what is now 121 Second Avenue Southwest, directly across from what was the first "home" of the People's Congregational Church, which Mr. and Mrs. Adams had helped to establish with Rev. Mr. J. W. Anderson its first minister. Eventually Billy combes bought the Adams home.
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