Bio from Thirty Year Record of the Class of Eighteen Eighty-Six Yale College 1886-1916
John Adams was born in Oakland, California, the son of Edson and Hannah(Jayne)Adams, prominent people of that city. After graduation he took two years at the Harvard Law School. He then returned to Oakland where he became identified with banking and other corporations. He was associated with his brother, Edson F. Adams, and was made secretary of the California Development Company, a company organized to manage his father's estate. He was an officer also of the Oakland Dock Warehouse Company and later he became a director of the the Farmers and Merchants National Bank.
Adams died November 8, 1913, after an operation for appendicitis and a very short illness at the Merritt Hospital at Oakland. He had led a busy and honorable life, devoted to his family and in a brad way to the duties of a citizen. He was particularly known for his high ideal of honor. In both the social and the business world, his genial personality made him much beloved. The Oakland Review headed its account of his death with the words, "Useful Life Ends Too Soon." "John C. Adams was one of the most valuable and unostentatious of the builders of Oakland." These words epitomize the characterisation of him by his fellow citizens by whom he was highly respected. He sought no political office, but was prominent in social affairs. It would have surprised his friends in 1886 if he had not taken a high position in the world.
He was a member of the Bohemian and University clubs of San Francisco, and the Athenian Club of Oakland.
He was married December 16, 1897, to Ernestine Shannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Haines Haskell, of San Francisco. They had five children: Vere de Vere Dudley; Ernestine Haskell; Schatz; John Charles, Jr., and Edson.
John Adams was born in Oakland, California, the son of Edson and Hannah(Jayne)Adams, prominent people of that city. After graduation he took two years at the Harvard Law School. He then returned to Oakland where he became identified with banking and other corporations. He was associated with his brother, Edson F. Adams, and was made secretary of the California Development Company, a company organized to manage his father's estate. He was an officer also of the Oakland Dock Warehouse Company and later he became a director of the the Farmers and Merchants National Bank.
Adams died November 8, 1913, after an operation for appendicitis and a very short illness at the Merritt Hospital at Oakland. He had led a busy and honorable life, devoted to his family and in a brad way to the duties of a citizen. He was particularly known for his high ideal of honor. In both the social and the business world, his genial personality made him much beloved. The Oakland Review headed its account of his death with the words, "Useful Life Ends Too Soon." "John C. Adams was one of the most valuable and unostentatious of the builders of Oakland." These words epitomize the characterisation of him by his fellow citizens by whom he was highly respected. He sought no political office, but was prominent in social affairs. It would have surprised his friends in 1886 if he had not taken a high position in the world.
He was a member of the Bohemian and University clubs of San Francisco, and the Athenian Club of Oakland.
He was married December 16, 1897, to Ernestine Shannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Haines Haskell, of San Francisco. They had five children: Vere de Vere Dudley; Ernestine Haskell; Schatz; John Charles, Jr., and Edson.
Bio from Thirty Year Record of the Class of Eighteen Eighty-Six Yale College 1886-1916
John Adams was born in Oakland, California, the son of Edson and Hannah(Jayne)Adams, prominent people of that city. After graduation he took two years at the Harvard Law School. He then returned to Oakland where he became identified with banking and other corporations. He was associated with his brother, Edson F. Adams, and was made secretary of the California Development Company, a company organized to manage his father's estate. He was an officer also of the Oakland Dock Warehouse Company and later he became a director of the the Farmers and Merchants National Bank.
Adams died November 8, 1913, after an operation for appendicitis and a very short illness at the Merritt Hospital at Oakland. He had led a busy and honorable life, devoted to his family and in a brad way to the duties of a citizen. He was particularly known for his high ideal of honor. In both the social and the business world, his genial personality made him much beloved. The Oakland Review headed its account of his death with the words, "Useful Life Ends Too Soon." "John C. Adams was one of the most valuable and unostentatious of the builders of Oakland." These words epitomize the characterisation of him by his fellow citizens by whom he was highly respected. He sought no political office, but was prominent in social affairs. It would have surprised his friends in 1886 if he had not taken a high position in the world.
He was a member of the Bohemian and University clubs of San Francisco, and the Athenian Club of Oakland.
He was married December 16, 1897, to Ernestine Shannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Haines Haskell, of San Francisco. They had five children: Vere de Vere Dudley; Ernestine Haskell; Schatz; John Charles, Jr., and Edson.
John Adams was born in Oakland, California, the son of Edson and Hannah(Jayne)Adams, prominent people of that city. After graduation he took two years at the Harvard Law School. He then returned to Oakland where he became identified with banking and other corporations. He was associated with his brother, Edson F. Adams, and was made secretary of the California Development Company, a company organized to manage his father's estate. He was an officer also of the Oakland Dock Warehouse Company and later he became a director of the the Farmers and Merchants National Bank.
Adams died November 8, 1913, after an operation for appendicitis and a very short illness at the Merritt Hospital at Oakland. He had led a busy and honorable life, devoted to his family and in a brad way to the duties of a citizen. He was particularly known for his high ideal of honor. In both the social and the business world, his genial personality made him much beloved. The Oakland Review headed its account of his death with the words, "Useful Life Ends Too Soon." "John C. Adams was one of the most valuable and unostentatious of the builders of Oakland." These words epitomize the characterisation of him by his fellow citizens by whom he was highly respected. He sought no political office, but was prominent in social affairs. It would have surprised his friends in 1886 if he had not taken a high position in the world.
He was a member of the Bohemian and University clubs of San Francisco, and the Athenian Club of Oakland.
He was married December 16, 1897, to Ernestine Shannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Haines Haskell, of San Francisco. They had five children: Vere de Vere Dudley; Ernestine Haskell; Schatz; John Charles, Jr., and Edson.
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