ADAMS G. CUNNINGHAM.  
	Adams G. Cunningham occupies a place among the foremost busi-
ness men of Battleford.  He is conducting a real estate and insurance
business, and has been Secretary of the Rural Municipality of Battle
River, No.438, for fourteen years. He was born in Headingly, Manitoba,
in March of the year 1873, a son of James and Letitia (Prichard) Cun-
ningham, also natives of that province.  Mr. Cunningham engaged in
farming there and was active in political affairs. He was a member of
the first House of the Legislative Assembly at Winnipeg for some time.
His death occurred in August, 1916. Mrs. Cunningham died in Septem-
ber, 1912.
	The public schools of Winnipeg afforded Adams G. Cunningham
his education and he remained on the home farm with his parents until
he was twenty-five years of age. He then conducted a general mercantile
business at Poplar Point, Manitoba, for three years, at the end of which
time he went to Winnipeg, where he became associated with Newell &
Company, real estate dealers, continuing with them for four years. He
then came to Battleford, in 1908, and for two and one-half years was
an instructor in the Industrial School here. When the rural district was
changed to a municipality he was made secretary and is now so serving.
At the same time he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business,
in which he has been successful. Mr. Cunningham is a man of keen dis-
crimination and innate business ability and is thoroughly informed on
land values throughout the district and province.  He has extensive in-
terests here, owning two farms of half a section each, located six and
twelve miles respectively from Battleford.  Both places are highly im-
proved and this year (1923) he has four hundred acres of wheat.
	On the 1st of June, 1898, Mr. Cunningham was married to Miss
Lucinda Jewison and they have become the parents of two children:
Earle James, born in March, 1901, who is connected with the Bank of
Hamilton at Battleford; and Iris Ethel, born in March, 1912, a student
in the public schools. For the past four years Mr. Cunningham has been
chairman of the public school board here and he has been a member of
the board for the past eleven years.  Fraternally he is identified with
the Masons and the Canadian Order of Foresters, and socially he is iden-
tified with the Canadian Club, the Battleford Golf Club and the Battleford
Curling Club. Mr. Cunningham's hobby is shooting and he is an expert
rifleman. He has always given his political allegiance to the Liberal party
and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, but he attends
the Union church here.



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