Adam Inch was born March 22, 1857, in Coulterhaugh, Scotland. In 1875, he emigrated to Canada and bought a farm on Upper Wentworth Street and Fennell Avenue where he ran a dairy farm to provide milk to Hamilton homes. In 1890, he married Jacqueline Lees Fortune, with whom he had 5 sons and 1 daughter.
He served on the Barton Township Board of Education, the Barton Township Council (where he was elected reeve in 1900), and on the Council of Wentworth County in 1905, 1906, and 1917. He also had interests in the Incline Railway Company, the Barton and Binbrook Telephone Company, and the Mount Hamilton Bus Lines. He was first a member of Barton Stone Presbyterian Church where he was an elder from 1891 to 1907. In 1905, he and his family were instrumental in the organization of Chalmers Presbyterian Church on Mountain Brow Blvd. where he served as elder. He was also active in the Hillcrest Lodge AF & AM.
During World War I, in which four of his sons served with distinction (two earning the Military Cross), he organized a number of Red Cross activities. In the early 1920's, he sold his dairy herd and actively campaigned on the City Council to take the land south of Concession Street into the city. Houses in this area had few sidewalks, no sewage or water supplies, and poor police and fire protection. The population was also growing rapidly.
Finally in 1929, the city limits were extended to Fennell Avenue but the city now taxed the vacant farm land as individual city vacant lots. Forty-two acres were lost to the city for taxes. After World War II, the city decided to open a city park on 16 acres of this property, naming it "Inch Park". Adam Inch died on July 3, 1933, in Hamilton, Ontario.