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Adams, Moses S

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1826, in Rindge, N. H. In 1854 he graduated in law from the university of Albany, and has attained prominence as an able and successful lawyer. For two terms he was a member of the Kansas house of representatives, during which time he was speaker in that body. President Lincoln appointed him army captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers during the civil war.

He was district attorney of the sixth district of Colorado; and county judge of Fremont county in that state.

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