Guide to the Charles C. Adams correspondence

Biographical History

Charles Christopher Adams was born on July 23, 1873 in Clinton, Illinois. He was the son of William Henry Harrison Adams and Hannah Westfall (Conklin) Adams. Adams earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1895 at Wesleyan University and a Masters degree at Harvard University in 1899. H received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1908 and was conferred an Honorary Sc.D. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1920. In 1908, he married Alice Luthera Norton and the couple had one daughter, Harriet Dyer Adams. Adams worked as assistant entomologist at Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History from 1896-1898. In 1903, he was appointed curator of the University of Michigan Museum. In 1906, he was named the director of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Adams was appointed associate professor at the University of Illinois in 1908. He became an assistant professor o Forest Zoology at the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University in 1914 and was subsequently appointed to a full professorship in 1916. In 1919, Adams became the first director of the Roosevelt Wild life Experimental Station (part of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University) located in the Adirondack Mountains. He left the Roosevelt Wild life Experimental Station in 1926 to accept the position of director of the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y. Adams held this position until his retirement in 1943. Adams wrote several books and articles on animal ecology and zoology. He was a member of the American Association of Museums and was a founding member of t following organizations: the American Ecological Society, the American Society of Naturalists, the Association of American Geographers, the History Science Society, and Sigma Xi. Adams died in Albany on May 22, 1955.