The Children

Basic Information

Edward Beckley Adams (1870-1937) 
Married Sarah Godman

6 kids, including one who died in infancy

Founded E.B. Adams

Descendants include:

Bowie/Patterson

Ed Adams/Harrison/Foley

Don Adams/Blaylock/Packard

John Haslup Adams (1871-1927) 
Married Lillian Craigen

No kids

Editor of Baltimore Sun; first editor of Evening Sun

Quote from his obituary, written by H.L. Mencken

"He had all the virtues of the Puritan--and, at their best, what virtues they are!  He saw a great modern newspaper as largely, if not mainly, an engine for rectifying injustice."

Thomas Sewell Adams (1873-1933) 

Married Elizabeth Matthews (1873-1941) 

Two daughters

Descendants include:

Jennings

Glennans/Borchert/Watts/Oldham

Charles Edwin Adams (1878-1935) 

Married Rebecca Harding (1882-1982)

No kids, but helped raise Chas and Bob - lived three houses down from them

Beck and Floride (Bob's wife) were sisters; the brothers met the sisters at a tuberculosis clinic

Margaret Adams (1881-1979)

Fiance died of influenza; Marge never married

Marge lived with her brother Will for years

George William Adams (1885-1973)

Uncle Will never married

Robert Newton Adams (1886-1924) 

Married Floride Harding (1887-1965)

Two sons

Bob Adams

Chas Adams