Background
Adams, Frederick Baldwin was born on February 5, 1878 in Toledo. Son of Charles Frederick and Anne Hewitt (Baldwin) Adams.
Businessman chairman philanthropist secretary
Adams, Frederick Baldwin was born on February 5, 1878 in Toledo. Son of Charles Frederick and Anne Hewitt (Baldwin) Adams.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1900.
Frederick was sent east to attend Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of fourteen. From Saint Paul"s, he went to Yale, where he received an Bachelor of Arts in 1900. His first job after Yale was as a claim agent for the Mohawk Division of the New York Central Railroad.
In 1902 he became secretary to Robert C. Pruyn, and the following year became secretary of the Union Trust Company of Albany.
During his lifetime he served as Chairman of the West Indies Sugar Corporation He was also connected with the Atlantic Coast Lincolnshire Railroad.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The Clinchfield Railroad.
And the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad.
Adams also branched out into other areas, becoming involved with the Union Trust Company of Albany. The Wright Aeronautical Company. The Air Reduction Company.
Potter, Choate & Prentice.
And Schroder, Rockefeller & Company
Adams was Chairman of the Board of the Air Reduction Company. lieutenant was engaged in the manufacture and sale of oxygen, acetylene, and other gasses and oxy-acetylene cutting and welding equipment.
lieutenant was the leading company of its field, and had links to Lee, Higginson & Company, the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Guaranty Trust Company In 1930, the company made over $5 million in profits.
Adams was involved with the Boys Club of New York, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Fifth Avenue Hospital, and served on the planning committee of the Roosevelt National Memorial.
With the small fortune he made from his business interests, Adams maintained a house in New York, a summer home on Campobello Island, and a plantation on the Cape Fear River. They had two children: Frederick Baldwin Adams, Junior., who graduated from Yale. And Laura, later Mistress
John Eastman, Junior.
Adams died in 1961 at River House, New York City, from a long illness.
He was a member of the Skull and Bones society. lieutenant was only a few years later when Robert Pruyn would hire Charles Edward Adams as his secretary, Frederick"s brother, a graduate of Saint Paul"s and a member of Skull and Bones. He was a member of the Knickerbocker Club of New New York
Married Ellen Walters Delano, September 28, 1907. Children: Frederick B., Laura Delano.