Born in Vernon, New York, Adams moved to Wisconsin in 1853 and settled in Door Creek, Wisconsin, in the town of Cottage Grove in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he was a farmer. He served as a justice of the peace for the town and was an enrolling officer during the American Civil War. Adams served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1867 and 1875 as a Republican.Wisconsin Blue Book, 1875, Biographical Sketch of Isaac Adams, p. 321. He died at his home in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin.Reports and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, volume 9, Lyman Copeland Draper, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1909, Wisconsin Necrology 1879, p. 445.
