Adami, Henry C.

HENRY C. ADAMI.
Henry C. Adami, residing in Wallace, is the superintendent of the sampling works of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. His birth occurred in Helena, Montana, on the 28th of April, 1879, his parents being Henry and Elizabeth (Maas) Adami. About 1870 the father emigrated from Germany to the United States, settling in Helena, Montana, where he did a freighting and real-estate business. Going back to the fatherland, he was there married and then again crossed the Atlantic and returned to Helena, where he continued in the business of rock quarrying and acquired considerable real estate. He still makes his home at Helena, and has attained the age of about fifty-eight years.
Henry C. Adami obtained his education in the grammar and high schools of Helena and after putting aside his text-books secured employment as a bookkeeper. In 1897 he began the study of assaying, chemistry and mining engineering with Braden Brothers of Helena, with whom he remained for two years. On the expiration of that period he became assayer and chemist for Thomas Cruse, of the celebrated Bald Mountain mine at Marysville, Montana, but resigned at the end of eight months to take the position of assistant assayer for the Peck Concentrating Company of East Helena, Montana. In a short time he was made the chemist of the concern, with which he remained for eight months, then becoming timekeeper and top foreman at the Gagnon mine in Butte, Montana, under the supervision of William Ward. After thus serving for another period of eight months he became identified, in 1901, with the Northwestern Sampling Works at Wallace, Idaho, then owned and operated by G. D. Potter and C. M. Witloff. In May, 1902, these gentlemen sold their plant to the Mine Owners' Association, with which Mr. Adami continued as chief assayer. In October, 1902, when the Mine Owners' Association sold the plan to the American Smelting & Refining Company, our subject remained therein, acting as assayer and chemist for the Mine Owners' Association and M. E. Fisher, representing the American Smelting & Refining Company. In October, 1903, the American Smelting & Refining Company sold the plant back to the Mine Owners' Association and Mr. Adami was appointed its superintendent. In the spring of 1906, when the Federal Mining & Smelting Company acquired all the interests of the Mine Owners' Association, including the sampling works, Mr. Adami continued to do all the assaying and also superintended the operation of the plant, making all settlements for ore at that place. From that time to the present he has remained a valuable and trusted representative of the company.
On the 8th of June, 1904, Mr. Adami was united in marriage to Miss Rowena McDiarmid, a daughter of J. C. McDiarmid, of Wallace, Idaho, who was one of the early pioneers of the Coeur d'Alene district, coming to Murray, Idaho, with the first gold rush. During the troublesome times in that district he served as deputy sheriff under Angus Sutherland. Mr. and Mrs. Adami have one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1907.

History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County Washington 1912