Jane Swain Adams (28 February 18519 November 1934) was an Australian farmer who built the
Mangowine Homestead
Mangowine Homestead is an historic homestead in Nungarin, Western Australia, built by Charles Frederick and Jane Swain Adams. It comprises a cottage built c1876, and an adjacent building constructed in 1889 as an inn.
The property was given to ...
with her husband.
Biography
Adams was born in
Toodyay, Western Australia on 28 February 1851, the second of four children of Scottish-born farmer Charles and his wife Jane Mary ( Cameron) Glass. A young Jane Adams married cobbler
Charles Frederick Adams on 6 November 1868.
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The Adams originally established a farm at Yarragin, then in 1875 they moved to Mangowine, near Nungarin] the furthermost east of any settler at that time where they built the Mangowine Homestead
Mangowine Homestead is an historic homestead in Nungarin, Western Australia, built by Charles Frederick and Jane Swain Adams. It comprises a cottage built c1876, and an adjacent building constructed in 1889 as an inn.
The property was given to ...
. In 1887 Adams commenced keeping meteorological records, a task she continued until her death in 1934. With the discovery of gold at Yilgarn in 1888, Charles built an inn at the homestead, which Jane ran until Mangowine was bypassed by the rail line from Northam to Southern Cross. They closed the inn in 1893. Charles died in 1895, and Jane continued to run the farm providing fresh produce for travellers and railway workers. She successfully tendered for the mail run in 1896, with their son Charles as the mail man.
In early 1900s more settlers took up farming in the region; many of these people were inexperienced in farming the tough conditions, and they turned to Adams for help and advice. The town of Nungarin was established in 1910. In 1929 Adams was the guest of honour for the opening of the Barbalin Water Scheme. Adams died on 9 November 1934 at Mangowine, and was buried in the Nungarin Cemetery. In 1935 a memorial was erected in her memory.
Adams was inducted into the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia
The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia (RASWA) was established 1831 in Western Australia. Early history
It held its first annual agricultural show, the Fair and Cattle Show, at Guildford, Western Australia, Guildford on 7 November ...
's "Agricultural Hall of Fame" in 2003.
References
Further reading
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External links
Family of Charles Frederick Adams and Jane Swain Glass, in Brady family tree
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Adams and Glass Family of Western Australia website
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1851 births
1934 deaths
People from Toodyay, Western Australia
Colony of Western Australia people
19th-century Australian farmers
Innkeepers
20th-century Australian farmers
19th-century Australian women farmers
20th-century Australian women farmers
Farmers from Western Australia