James Adams reeelected as Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois.
John C. Reynolds, History of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons: From the Organization of the First Lodge Within the Present Limits of the State, Up to and Including 1850 (Springfield, IL: H. G. Reynolds, Jr., Masonic Travel Office, 1869), 136–37
FIRST ANNUAL COMMUNICATION.
"At a Grand Annual Convocation of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, held at Jacksonville, on Monday, the 20th day of October, A. D. 1840, A. L.
5840 . . .
" On motion, the Grand Lodge then went into a ballot for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and until their successors shall he duly elected and installed, when the following officers were declared duly elected, to-wit :
"M. W. A. JONAS, of Columbus, G. M.
R. W. JAS. ADAMS, of Springfield, D. G. M.
W. A. DUNLAP, of Jacksonville, G. S. W.
W. H. DILLS, of Quincy, G. J. W.
W. W. B. WARREN, of Jacksonville, G. Sec.
W. P. COFFMAN, of Jacksonville, G. Treas.
Rev. H. W. OSBORN, of Morgan co., G. Chap.
S. A. DOUGLAS, of Springfield, G. Orator.