Carroll Parker Adams

Background

Adams, Carroll Parker was born on January 18, 1892 in Plymouth, Michigan, United States. Son of Frank B. and Mary S. (Bryant) Adams.

Education

Student, University Michigan, 1911-1913.

Career

Sales executive, Detroit Steel Products Company, 1916-1928; executive secretary, University of Michigan Alumni Club, Detroit, 1928-1933; member of staff domestic relations division, Wayne County Circuit Court, Indiana, 1933-1941; member of staff industrial department, Detroit Board Commerce, 1941-1942. Office manager Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company, 1942-1944. International executive secretary Society Preservation and Encouragement Barbershop Quartet Singing American, Inc.

1944-1953, emeritus from 1953. Executive secretary Bennington County Industrial Corporation, 1953-1959, Vermont Republican State Committee, from 1959.

Achievements

• Carroll Parker Adams has been listed as a noteworthy organization executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Association Male Choruses American (vice president 1944-1948), Midwest Conference Male Choruses (Board of Governors, president), Michigan Male Choruses Association (secretary-treasurer 1927-1951), Sons of the American Revolution, Society Preservation and Encouragement Barber Shop Quartet Singing American (national vice president 1940-1941, national president 1941-1942, national secretary 1942-1944), Orpheus Club, Lost Lake Woods Club, Adcraft Club, Economic Club, Bohemians Club, Toastmasters Club, Masons, Rotary, Pi Upsilon Rho.

Connections

Son of Frank B. and Mary S. (Bryant) A. M. Hazel Gould, October 1917 (divorced 1933). 1 daughter, Barbara Nancy Adams Jones.

M. 2d, Olive Smith Bigelow, July 1, 1934 (deceased 1942). M. 3d, Franc Stannard Prine, October 23, 1942.

Father:

Frank B. Adams

Mother:

Mary S. (Bryant) Adams

Spouse:

Hazel Gould

Spouse:

second

Spouse:

Franc Stannard Prine