Professor's Wife, Is Dead
Mrs. Joseph Adams, formerly of Ithaca, died suddenly Friday night in New Orleans, La., according to word reaching relatives here today. She was the former Miss Helen Banks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morris T. Banks of Ithaca. Her husband, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, was a professor of English at Cornell University for many years, leaving here in 1931 to become director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library at Washington, D. C. He and Miss Banks were married in the same year. The cause of Mrs. Adams sudden death was not disclosed.
Funeral services and interment will take place Monday In Washington. Besides her husband, Mrs. Adams is survived by a three-year-old daughter, Helen; three sisters, Mrs. Howard J. Carey of Hutchinson, Kan., Mrs. Robert W. Nix ...and Miss Josephine Banks of Washington; uncles, S. E. Banks of Ithaca and John Banks of Elmira; and two aunts, Mrs. Louis Utter and Mrs. Samuel Lacy, both of Ithaca.
Published in the Ithaca Journal Ithaca, New York Saturday, September 14, 1935 Page 3 [OCR copy]
HELEN BANKS '13, daughter of Mrs. Morris Treman Banks of Ithaca, and Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Ph.D. '06, of the Department of English, were married in New York on January 19.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News February 9, 1931
[Alternative date cited: January 29, 1931]
06 PhD; 'x3—A daughter, Helen Banks, was born in Washington on April 17 to Professor Joseph Quincy Adams now in charge of the Folger library, and Mrs. Adams (Helen Banks '13).
Published in the Cornell Alumni News June z, 1932 Vol. XXXIV No. 3
Mrs. Joseph Adams, formerly of Ithaca, died suddenly Friday night in New Orleans, La., according to word reaching relatives here today. She was the former Miss Helen Banks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morris T. Banks of Ithaca. Her husband, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, was a professor of English at Cornell University for many years, leaving here in 1931 to become director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library at Washington, D. C. He and Miss Banks were married in the same year. The cause of Mrs. Adams sudden death was not disclosed.
Funeral services and interment will take place Monday In Washington. Besides her husband, Mrs. Adams is survived by a three-year-old daughter, Helen; three sisters, Mrs. Howard J. Carey of Hutchinson, Kan., Mrs. Robert W. Nix ...and Miss Josephine Banks of Washington; uncles, S. E. Banks of Ithaca and John Banks of Elmira; and two aunts, Mrs. Louis Utter and Mrs. Samuel Lacy, both of Ithaca.
Published in the Ithaca Journal Ithaca, New York Saturday, September 14, 1935 Page 3 [OCR copy]
HELEN BANKS '13, daughter of Mrs. Morris Treman Banks of Ithaca, and Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Ph.D. '06, of the Department of English, were married in New York on January 19.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News February 9, 1931
[Alternative date cited: January 29, 1931]
06 PhD; 'x3—A daughter, Helen Banks, was born in Washington on April 17 to Professor Joseph Quincy Adams now in charge of the Folger library, and Mrs. Adams (Helen Banks '13).
Published in the Cornell Alumni News June z, 1932 Vol. XXXIV No. 3
Professor's Wife, Is Dead
Mrs. Joseph Adams, formerly of Ithaca, died suddenly Friday night in New Orleans, La., according to word reaching relatives here today. She was the former Miss Helen Banks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morris T. Banks of Ithaca. Her husband, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, was a professor of English at Cornell University for many years, leaving here in 1931 to become director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library at Washington, D. C. He and Miss Banks were married in the same year. The cause of Mrs. Adams sudden death was not disclosed.
Funeral services and interment will take place Monday In Washington. Besides her husband, Mrs. Adams is survived by a three-year-old daughter, Helen; three sisters, Mrs. Howard J. Carey of Hutchinson, Kan., Mrs. Robert W. Nix ...and Miss Josephine Banks of Washington; uncles, S. E. Banks of Ithaca and John Banks of Elmira; and two aunts, Mrs. Louis Utter and Mrs. Samuel Lacy, both of Ithaca.
Published in the Ithaca Journal Ithaca, New York Saturday, September 14, 1935 Page 3 [OCR copy]
HELEN BANKS '13, daughter of Mrs. Morris Treman Banks of Ithaca, and Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Ph.D. '06, of the Department of English, were married in New York on January 19.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News February 9, 1931
[Alternative date cited: January 29, 1931]
06 PhD; 'x3—A daughter, Helen Banks, was born in Washington on April 17 to Professor Joseph Quincy Adams now in charge of the Folger library, and Mrs. Adams (Helen Banks '13).
Published in the Cornell Alumni News June z, 1932 Vol. XXXIV No. 3
Mrs. Joseph Adams, formerly of Ithaca, died suddenly Friday night in New Orleans, La., according to word reaching relatives here today. She was the former Miss Helen Banks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morris T. Banks of Ithaca. Her husband, an eminent Shakespearean scholar, was a professor of English at Cornell University for many years, leaving here in 1931 to become director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Memorial Library at Washington, D. C. He and Miss Banks were married in the same year. The cause of Mrs. Adams sudden death was not disclosed.
Funeral services and interment will take place Monday In Washington. Besides her husband, Mrs. Adams is survived by a three-year-old daughter, Helen; three sisters, Mrs. Howard J. Carey of Hutchinson, Kan., Mrs. Robert W. Nix ...and Miss Josephine Banks of Washington; uncles, S. E. Banks of Ithaca and John Banks of Elmira; and two aunts, Mrs. Louis Utter and Mrs. Samuel Lacy, both of Ithaca.
Published in the Ithaca Journal Ithaca, New York Saturday, September 14, 1935 Page 3 [OCR copy]
HELEN BANKS '13, daughter of Mrs. Morris Treman Banks of Ithaca, and Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Ph.D. '06, of the Department of English, were married in New York on January 19.
Published in the Cornell Alumni News February 9, 1931
[Alternative date cited: January 29, 1931]
06 PhD; 'x3—A daughter, Helen Banks, was born in Washington on April 17 to Professor Joseph Quincy Adams now in charge of the Folger library, and Mrs. Adams (Helen Banks '13).
Published in the Cornell Alumni News June z, 1932 Vol. XXXIV No. 3
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