Earl Hanford McAdams was born in Pike County Missouri in 1896 to Theodore and Virginia McAdams. He and his older brother, Charles, lived the life right out of Huck Finn as they grew up on the Mississippi just south of Hannibal.
World War One took Earl out of small town America in 1918 as he joined the AEF, part of Battery B of the Army's 21st Field Artillery. He shipped out of Bayonne, NJ for France in May. As part of the 5th division his battery was in the U.S. Army's first offensive on the Western Front at St Mihiel in September. German shells landed near his position, Earl and a friend escaped the Mustard Gas by crawling into an oven in the Field Kitchen. Mac lost all of the hair on his lower legs.
Upon his return to the States Earl went to work for the Burlington RR as a Station Manager in Guernsey, Wyoming. In Guernsey he met Grace Pulver and they were married in 1921. Two children, Virgina and Earl C, blessed their union in the next 4 years.
In the fall of 1931 Earl took the job of Employment Agent for the Six Companies at the Boulder Dam project in Nevada. "Mac" had the reputation of being a hard boiled man, you could get a job but there were no second chances if you got hurt, missed a shift, or made a mistake. Earl led the VIP tours of the work site, he loved to lean out over the 600 foot drop to the work site with just a flimsy 2X4 rail to hold on to.
From Boulder, Earl and his family moved to Parker Dam and then to Shasta Dam in Redding CA. as Personnel Manager. Earl worked for Morrison Knudson after WWII on Defense Dept building projects in Pine Bluff, AR and Los Alamos, NM.
In 1954 Earl was stricken with cancer and died in Denver, CO.
The affiliations he took most pride in were his family, the Masonic Lodge, Republican Party, and being a WWI Veteran.
Earl Hanford McAdams was survived by his wife; Grace, children; Virginia and Earl C, brother Charles, six Grandsons, three neices, and three nephews.
World War One took Earl out of small town America in 1918 as he joined the AEF, part of Battery B of the Army's 21st Field Artillery. He shipped out of Bayonne, NJ for France in May. As part of the 5th division his battery was in the U.S. Army's first offensive on the Western Front at St Mihiel in September. German shells landed near his position, Earl and a friend escaped the Mustard Gas by crawling into an oven in the Field Kitchen. Mac lost all of the hair on his lower legs.
Upon his return to the States Earl went to work for the Burlington RR as a Station Manager in Guernsey, Wyoming. In Guernsey he met Grace Pulver and they were married in 1921. Two children, Virgina and Earl C, blessed their union in the next 4 years.
In the fall of 1931 Earl took the job of Employment Agent for the Six Companies at the Boulder Dam project in Nevada. "Mac" had the reputation of being a hard boiled man, you could get a job but there were no second chances if you got hurt, missed a shift, or made a mistake. Earl led the VIP tours of the work site, he loved to lean out over the 600 foot drop to the work site with just a flimsy 2X4 rail to hold on to.
From Boulder, Earl and his family moved to Parker Dam and then to Shasta Dam in Redding CA. as Personnel Manager. Earl worked for Morrison Knudson after WWII on Defense Dept building projects in Pine Bluff, AR and Los Alamos, NM.
In 1954 Earl was stricken with cancer and died in Denver, CO.
The affiliations he took most pride in were his family, the Masonic Lodge, Republican Party, and being a WWI Veteran.
Earl Hanford McAdams was survived by his wife; Grace, children; Virginia and Earl C, brother Charles, six Grandsons, three neices, and three nephews.
Earl Hanford McAdams was born in Pike County Missouri in 1896 to Theodore and Virginia McAdams. He and his older brother, Charles, lived the life right out of Huck Finn as they grew up on the Mississippi just south of Hannibal.
World War One took Earl out of small town America in 1918 as he joined the AEF, part of Battery B of the Army's 21st Field Artillery. He shipped out of Bayonne, NJ for France in May. As part of the 5th division his battery was in the U.S. Army's first offensive on the Western Front at St Mihiel in September. German shells landed near his position, Earl and a friend escaped the Mustard Gas by crawling into an oven in the Field Kitchen. Mac lost all of the hair on his lower legs.
Upon his return to the States Earl went to work for the Burlington RR as a Station Manager in Guernsey, Wyoming. In Guernsey he met Grace Pulver and they were married in 1921. Two children, Virgina and Earl C, blessed their union in the next 4 years.
In the fall of 1931 Earl took the job of Employment Agent for the Six Companies at the Boulder Dam project in Nevada. "Mac" had the reputation of being a hard boiled man, you could get a job but there were no second chances if you got hurt, missed a shift, or made a mistake. Earl led the VIP tours of the work site, he loved to lean out over the 600 foot drop to the work site with just a flimsy 2X4 rail to hold on to.
From Boulder, Earl and his family moved to Parker Dam and then to Shasta Dam in Redding CA. as Personnel Manager. Earl worked for Morrison Knudson after WWII on Defense Dept building projects in Pine Bluff, AR and Los Alamos, NM.
In 1954 Earl was stricken with cancer and died in Denver, CO.
The affiliations he took most pride in were his family, the Masonic Lodge, Republican Party, and being a WWI Veteran.
Earl Hanford McAdams was survived by his wife; Grace, children; Virginia and Earl C, brother Charles, six Grandsons, three neices, and three nephews.
World War One took Earl out of small town America in 1918 as he joined the AEF, part of Battery B of the Army's 21st Field Artillery. He shipped out of Bayonne, NJ for France in May. As part of the 5th division his battery was in the U.S. Army's first offensive on the Western Front at St Mihiel in September. German shells landed near his position, Earl and a friend escaped the Mustard Gas by crawling into an oven in the Field Kitchen. Mac lost all of the hair on his lower legs.
Upon his return to the States Earl went to work for the Burlington RR as a Station Manager in Guernsey, Wyoming. In Guernsey he met Grace Pulver and they were married in 1921. Two children, Virgina and Earl C, blessed their union in the next 4 years.
In the fall of 1931 Earl took the job of Employment Agent for the Six Companies at the Boulder Dam project in Nevada. "Mac" had the reputation of being a hard boiled man, you could get a job but there were no second chances if you got hurt, missed a shift, or made a mistake. Earl led the VIP tours of the work site, he loved to lean out over the 600 foot drop to the work site with just a flimsy 2X4 rail to hold on to.
From Boulder, Earl and his family moved to Parker Dam and then to Shasta Dam in Redding CA. as Personnel Manager. Earl worked for Morrison Knudson after WWII on Defense Dept building projects in Pine Bluff, AR and Los Alamos, NM.
In 1954 Earl was stricken with cancer and died in Denver, CO.
The affiliations he took most pride in were his family, the Masonic Lodge, Republican Party, and being a WWI Veteran.
Earl Hanford McAdams was survived by his wife; Grace, children; Virginia and Earl C, brother Charles, six Grandsons, three neices, and three nephews.
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