This company is known to have been active from 1865 through 1890, and was probably active for longer. By 1889 the name had changed from S. Adams & Son to S. Adams & Sons. By 1911 the name was down to just one "Son" again, at least in the one ad from that year that we have seen. They made lath and shingle machines.

Advertisement from the May 1889 issue of The Wood-Worker

Information Sources

• The 1865 edition of the Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society reported the results of that year's state fair. S. Adams & Son of Rome won for "2d best two-horse cultivator", second best potato digger, subsoil attachment for plow. Of their "horse hoe and potatoe digger combined" it says, "This machine is constructed on the principle of Shares' horse hoe, with addition of wheel in center on which it rides. It has a pair of extra wings, with iron teeth, to be attached for digging potatoes. It took second premium. Price $13."
• Briefly mentioned in 1885 Manufacturer & Builder.
• From The Railroad, Telegraph, and Steamship Builders' Directory, 1888: a listing under wood-working machinery for "Adams, S. & Sons, Rome, N. Y."
• Ad in May 1889 issue of The Wood-Worker, for S. Adams & Sons. "Gue's Imp'd Shingle & Head Cutting Machine".