Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.

Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (March 28, 1910 – January 7, 2001) was an American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from 1948 to 1969. Early life Adams was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on March 28, 1910, and grew up in the family home at 8 East 69th Street in Manhattan and at their country home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick. He was the son of Ellen Walters (née Delano) Adams (a first cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Frederick Baldwin Adams. Among his relatives were his sibling Laura Delano Adams (wife of Jack Eastman, Director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture), and daughters Gillian Adams, and Ann Baldwin Adams. Among his large extended family was great-uncle were Henry Walters, the founder of the Walters Art Museum. Adams attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College in 1932, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After Yale, he attended Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England. Career After Cambridge, he worked at the Air Reduction Company, a manufacturer of oxygen, acetylene, and other gasses and oxy-acetylene cutting and welding equipment, founded by his father and uncle, among others. At the company, he researched how New Deal legislation might affect the company.