Background
Adams, Charles Edward was born on October 29, 1881 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Anne Hewitt (Baldwin) Adams.
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Adams, Charles Edward was born on October 29, 1881 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Anne Hewitt (Baldwin) Adams.
He graduated from Saint Paul"s School and Yale with an Bachelor of Arts in 1904, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
After his graduation he spent three years as secretary to the banker Robert C. Pruyn. In 1907 he entered the brokerage firm F. South. Butterworth & Company, then moved to Callaway Fish & Company in 1910. He briefly joined Foster & Adams and became treasurer of the Air Reduction Company in 1918.
He rose through the ranks of the company, eventually becoming chairman in 1937.
Adams served on the boards of a number of companies, including the United States Industrial Alcohol Company, Pur Carbonic, Incorporated., Dry Ice, Incorporated., the Cuban Air Products Corporation and served as a trustee for Mutual Life. The highest point in his career came when he was made a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New New York
During World World War II Adams held several positions within the government. In 1940 he consulted the Council of National Defense on industrial materials.
He served on the National Defense Mediation Board and headed the iron and steel branch of the War Production Board.
He died on 27 January 1957.
Member Foster & Adams, 1917-1918. Served with Industrial Materials Department, Advisory Commission to Council of National Defense as Executive officer and consultant June-December 1940, and as senior consultant with Priorities Division Office of Production Management from January-March 1941. Member Alpha Delta Phi, Skull and Bones (Yale).
Clubs: Chemists, Links, Yale, Downtown, Uptown, Cloud, Union (New York).
Married Phyllis Shearson, February 3, 1917. Children: Phyllis Anne, Janet Shearson.