Early Life, Education, and Family
The son of Randolph G. Adams and Helen Spiller Adams, he was born in Durham, North Carolina, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father was Librarian of the William L. Clements Library, part of the University of Michigan Library system. Adams served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1944. He received an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949. In 1951, he married Virginia Matzke Adams, with whom he had three daughters: Virginia Hedges Adams, Josephine Lippincott Adams, and Eliza Stokes Adams.
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