David Edward Adams Bio
Monongalia Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II

pg 199

 David Edward Adams is an expert sanitary engineer, but in recent years a 
broad range of business responsibilities have engaged his service as an able 
executive.  He is general manager of B. M. Chaplin & Company, general 
contractors, and is connected with several other corporations.

Mr. Adams, whose home has been at Morgantown and who grew up at Parkersburg, 
was born at Newark, Ohio, December 9, 1891, son of Charles E. and Josephine 
W. (Allen) Adams.  His grandfather, John Adams was of a Quaker family.  
Charles E. Adams was born at Barnesville, Ohio, and has been connected with 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railway for over forty years.  Since 1903 he has been 
train dispatcher at Parkersburg, West Virginia.  Josephine W. Allen was born 
at Newark, Ohio, daughter of Judge David Allen of the Federal Court.

David E. Adams was reared in Newark until he was about nine years of age, then
 lived for two years with a family at Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1903 
accompanied them to Parkersburg.  He had a public school education, spending 
three years in the Parkersburg High School, and in 1909 graduated from the 
Military Academy at Staunton, Virginia.  He received his Bachelor of Science 
and Civil Engineering degrees from Ohio State University with the class of 
1915.  Mr. Adams paid his own way through university, and while at the Ohio 
State did research work in sewerage and sewage disposal for two years in the 
employ of the City of Columbus.  He continued that work for one year after 
graduating.  For two years he was sanitary engineer for the Ohio State Board 
of Health.

Mr. Adams located at Morgantown in 1917.  He entered the service of B. M. 
Chaplin & Company as secretary and chief engineer, but since then has taken 
the larger responsibilities of general manager and secretary.  He has been 
since its organization a stockholder in the Chaplin Colliers Company, was 
also its purchasing agent one year and since then a director.  He was one of 
the organizers and has since been president and treasurer of the Riverside 
Lumber Company and is general manager of the Maxwell Coal Company, an 
operating corporation.  His financial interests extend to several other 
enterprises.

Mr. Adams is a popular member of Morgantown Lodge No. 411, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks, belongs to the Sigma Psi, , honorary college 
fraternity, the Kiwanis Club, and the First Presbyterian Church.  On August 
3, 1915, he married Miss Flora Tucker, who was born at Glenville, West 
Virginia, daughter of Robert C. and Frances (Smith) Tucker.  Her father was a 
Confederate soldier in the Civil war.  Mr. and Mrs. Adams have a daughter, 
Ruth Lee, born February 7 1918.