Charles E. Adams

Charles Edward Adams (29 October 1881, Toledo, Ohio – 27 January 1957) was graduated from St. Paul's School and Yale with an A.B. in 1904. After his graduation he spent three years as secretary to the banker Robert C. Pruyn. In 1907 he entered the brokerage firm F. S. Butterworth & Co., then moved to Callaway Fish & Co. in 1910. He briefly joined Foster & Adams and became treasurer of the Air Reduction Co. in 1918. He rose through the ranks of th... more

Date of birth:

  • Oct 29, 1881

Date of death:

  • Jan 27, 1957 (age 75 years)
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