Adams County was named for one of the presidents of that name. Henry Gannett, credits as the name giver, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. History of Northern Wisconsin (Chicago, 1881), p. 60, says that this county was named for John Adams, the second president.

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[Source: Wis. Hist. Colls., i, p. 112.;History of Northern Wisconsin (Chicago, 1881), p. 60; U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, No. 197 (Washington 1902), p. 18]