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Jacob and Clara, who were married November 12, 1918 in the rural Catholic Church of Holy Name in Medina Township, Minnesota, had six children: Marianne (1919 -); Agnes (1922-1993); James (1925-2001); Rita (1926 -); John (1928-2006) and William (1935 -). \n \nFollowing their marriage, Jacob and Clara moved several miles north to the small village of Hamel, where they purchased a two-story Colonial Revival house, built in 1911, situated about midway along the town's only street. To serve the surrounding farms, mainly dairy, Hamel, a railroad section settlement, offered two saloons, a hardware store, three small grocery stores, four gas pumps, a blacksmith shop, a Roman Catholic church, a one-room school, and an American Legion community building. Jacob Adams was a carpenter. In 1925, 1926 and 1927, he traveled in the winters to Florida to practice his trade during the season when construction in Minnesota was suspended. The first year he brought the family with him. Rita was born in Winter Haven. Jacob supervised construction of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Wales, Florida. The building, converted into an art museum in the 1980s, remains standing today. In 1933, Jacob managed construction of the Church of St. Anne in Hamel, built next door to the family house. The large brick Gothic-styled church remains the town's largest edifice.  The population of Hamel in 1940 was about 140. Jim, with other children who lived in a radius of about one mile, attended the one-room school, located about 100 yards west of the Adams home. The students, grades 1 through 8, numbered some 30 annually. The same woman, Miss Clara Mahlke, taught there from about 1934 through 1958, when the school was closed and consolidated in a larger district. The high school that Jim and other Hamel children attended was located in Wayzata, about 5 miles south of Hamel. In the years that Jim attended Wayzata H.S., students had to find their own transportation. Not until 1947 did the district began bus service. The death of Jacob from cancer at the age of 51 in October 1941 left Clara with six children and no income. Marianne married in January 1942. The next oldest sibling, Agnes, was then 19 and the youngest, William but 6. \n \nProbably for economic reasons, Jim dropped out of high school after his junior year, 1943. He enlisted in a Civilian Conservation Camp in Michigan, where he remained until entering military service in December 1943. He took basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and additional training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He returned to Hamel on brief leave in July 1944 before returning to duty at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. In early October 1944, Jim transferred to Fort Meade, Maryland, and then to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for overseas processing. 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The war's end in May 1945 found Jim in Austria, where he spent the remainder of the year guarding German war prisoners. \n \nIn March 1946, Jim was discharged and returned to Hamel. He worked for the next six years as a carpenter. In February 1951, Jim married Marilyn Sheridan, literally a next door neighbor, one year younger then he, a girl he had known from childhood. Jim and Marilyn had four children, two boys and two girls. In 1951, following the wedding, Jim purchased a farm milk pick-up route, engaged in the task of collecting milk at scattered farms and delivering it to a creamery for processing. It is a difficult industry, requiring service 365 days a year, traveling country roads and long dirt driveways in weather of all sorts. In 1956, the industry replaced milk cans with bulk tankers, which made the process of collecting the milk far less arduous. Jim kept his route for 15 years. 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