Edward Dean Adams

Edward Dean Adams
Born9 April 1846 Edit this on Wikidata
Boston Edit this on Wikidata
Died20 May 1931 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 85)
New York City Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
Spouse(s)Frances Amelia Gutterson Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Edward Dean Adams (April 9, 1846 – May 20, 1931)[1] was an American businessman, banker, power broker and numismatist. He was the president of Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company which built the first hydroelectric power plants in Niagara Falls, New York. The Adams Power Plant Transformer House is named after him.[2] He was "conspicuously successful in corporate reorganizations".[3] Adams appeared on the cover of Time magazine on May 27, 1929.[4]

He also had wide cultural interests, including numismatics.[5]

  1. ^ "Edward Dean Adams". Transactions of the Electrochemical Society. 59. 1931. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "Edward Dean Adams Power Plant". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  3. ^ "In Memoriam: Edward Dean Adams". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 26 (7): 163–162. 1931. JSTOR 3256103.
  4. ^ "Edward Dean Adams". Time. May 27, 1929. cover.
  5. ^ Edward Dean Adams, biography by John N. Lupia III, Numismatic Biographies https://sites.google.com/site/numismaticmallcom/encyclopedic-dictionary-of-numismatic-biographies/adams-edward-dean Archived October 23, 2020, at the Wayback Machine