James Adger

1777 - 1858  (80 years)

• Name	James Adger
  Birth	2 Nov 1777	Moneynick, Antrim County, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Sep 1858	St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, NY
  Person ID	I138854	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2015

  
  

  Father	James Adger,   b. 1742, County Antrim, Ireland d. 25 Mar 1783, County Antrim, Ireland (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Margaret Crawford,   b. 1744, County Antrim, Ireland d. 1827, South Carolina, USA (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1770
  Family ID	F54439	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Elizabeth Ellison,   b. 1783   d. 18 Oct 1856 (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	6 Sep 1806	Winnsboro, SC
  Children	1. Margaret Milligan Adger,   b. 1808   d. 1884 (Age 76 years)   2. Susan Dunlap Adger,   b. 1809   d. 1884 (Age 75 years)   3. John Bailey Adger,   b. 1810   d. 1899 (Age 89 years)   4. James Adger,   b. 1812   d. 1882 (Age 70 years)   5. Robert Adger,   b. 1814   d. 1891 (Age 77 years)   6. William Adger,   b. 1816   d. 1853 (Age 37 years)   7. Sarah Elizabeth Adger,   b. 1820   d. 1835 (Age 15 years)   8. Jane Ann Adger,   b. 1822   d. 1899 (Age 77 years)   9. Joseph Ellison Adger,   b. 1824   d. 1898 (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F54454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to America Elected to SC Legislature James Adger came to America from Ireland in 1794. After working in New York, he moved to Charleston in 1801. His brother William had settled in Fairfield County, where James met and married Sarah Ellison in 1806. With John Bones, he started a wagon business in Charleston, then opened a wholesale hardware store in 1818 on Adger's Wharf. He was also engaged in a commission-merchant partnership with James Black. He owned and operated a line of packet steamers from New York to Charleston, the Adger Line. The "James Adger", one of his ships, was involved in the attempt to lay the first trans-atlantic cable, but the Civil War interrupted the effort. Seized by federal authorities, the "James Adger" became a blockader off Charleston. James Adger ran a tug line bringing ships across the bar into Charleston harbor, and laid the cornerstone of the Hibernian Hall. He became quite wealthy, and helped many young men emigrate from Ireland after the famine of 1846. He died in 1858, extremely rich.