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Dr. P. M. Adams
Vol. 3, p. 1281-1282

In this era of almost marvelous achievements in surgery, medicine and
all branches of therapic [sic] restoration and conservation, the
profession of a physician seems perhaps most enviable in its
opportunities for human service and most serious in its
responsibilities. No work is more delicate, more intricate, more
severe in its demands than is that of the alienist. The chief and
leading exponent of that branch of medical science in this part of
Oklahoma is Dr. P. M. Adams, a man who may be said to be exceptionally
young to have reached so high a rank as a physician.

Doctor Adams is a descendant of one branch of the old Virginia Adams
family. His father was Edmund F. Adams, born in 1853 [sic] in the Old
Dominion State, but reared and educated in Kentucky; he married
Louella M. Tatum, a native of Arkansas, in the year 1861 [sic. Edmond Adams
and his wife established their home in Texas, settling at Celester [sic], 
in Hunt County of that state. Locating in that comparatively new country
in 1880, he made a noteworthy success as a dealer in lumber and
cotton. He is a prominent Mason and a staunch democrat. Nine children
came to the Texas home of Edmund F. Adams and his wife. The first-born
of these was P. M. Adams, whose birth occurred at Celester [sic] on 
January 31, 1884.

The college education of P. M. Adams was obtained at Baylor University
in Waco, Texas. When he had completed his course in that institution,
he entered Barnes Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, from which
institution he was graduated in the class of 1905. For his initial
practice, Doctor Adams located at Big Cabin, Oklahoma, where he became
well known as a physician of keen scientific insight and of reliable
judgment. His prestige soon outgrew the horizon of his actual practice
and the time came when he was called to more conspicuous honors and
heavier responsibilities.

In 1913 Governor Lee Cruce appointed Doctor Adams to the position of
superintendent of the East Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, which
institution is located at Vinita. Doctor Adams accepted the
appointment and became a resident of Vinita and of the hospital plant.
On his staff are Drs. E. L. Bagby and P. L. Hayes, both of whom are
physicians of high personal and professional status. The hospital
force includes eighty-one assistants and nurses and its patients at
present number 701.

Doctor Adams in not only distinguished as a physician, but is also
very popular personally. Many fraternal societies number him among
their members. In addition to membership in his college fraternity, he
belongs to Adona Lodge No. 99, of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons;
to Indian Consistory No. 1 of McAlester; is a thirty-second degree
Mason; and a member of Vinita Lodge No. 1162, of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the order of Knights
of Pythias. The doctor’s political alignment is with the democratic
party.

The family of Doctor Adams consists of Mrs. Adams and one son. Indian
Territory was the birthplace of Mrs. Adams, who before her marriage
was Miss Mame Buttler. The son bears his father’s full name is known
as P. M. Adams, Jr.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Marti Graham, May 2003.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916)

[May 2003 Sharon Tatom <twc2@qwest.net>, a Tatoms/Tatums researcher writes 
the marriage date of Edmond Adams and Louella M. Tatum is documented in
"Hunt County [Texas] Marriages" as December 3, 1882. And the name of the 
town is Celeste rather than Celester. For more information contact Sharon.]