Person

Frank William Adams

Attended Yale College 1912-1913

Frank William Adams - Yale College Class of 1916 class book, Yale University Library

Biography

Frank William Adams was born in 1892 in Charleston, South Carolina. He also lived in Toledo, Ohio, and in New Haven. He graduated from New Haven High School (now Hillhouse High School) in 1912, then attended Yale for a year before transferring to Dartmouth College. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1916. He married Sadie Rice Adams in 1925 and earned a bachelor of laws degree from Howard Law School the same year, beginning a long legal career.

Immediately after graduating from Howard, he served as clerk of the Municipal Court of Washington, DC, and then as Assistant United States Attorney from 1929 to 1933. He then joined the law firm of Cobb, Howard, and Haynes. He was a member of the Masons and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

Adams died in Washington, DC in 1978.

Full Name

Frank William Adams

Family Name

Adams

Yale Affiliation

Attended Yale College 1912-1913

Birth Date

1892

Birth Place

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Educated At

Hillhouse High School
Howard University School of Law
Dartmouth College
Yale College

Places Lived

Toledo, Ohio, United States
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Washington, D.C., United States
Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Death Date

1978

Gender

male

Decade(s) at Yale

1910s
Media
Frank William Adams - Yale College Class of 1916 class book, Yale University LibraryFrank William Adams - Yale College Class of 1916 class book, Yale University Library