"Everett Vernon Adams, brother of Mrs. F.C. Carpenter of Fly Creek, died at St. Michaels Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Sunday afternoon, April 10. He had been there as a surgical patient for the past seven weeks following a fall in which he sustained a broken hip near his East Orange home. An Otsego County native, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville J. Adams, and a graduate of Hartwick Seminary, Mr. Adams early identified himself with the then rapidly growing telephone business. From a position at Oneida with the Bell System, he came to Cooperstown in 1902 when the Central New York (Bell) Co. was put into operation that spring. Mr. Adams' progress with the Bell Company was rapid as he was transferred from Cooperstown first to Utica and during the next ten years to Syracuse, La Grange, Indiana; Oklahoma City and St. Louis, Mo. About 1912 he went to New York City and became especially interested in the manufacturing side of the telephone business working at the Bell Laboratories in West Street in that city and participating in a number of important engineering developments in the industry. Later he became especially interested in the planning and developing of railroad signalling and when the manufacturing end was taken over by Western Electric he followed to that company. Later he participated in the formation of the Graybar Co., which was an offshoot of Western Electric Co., for handling sales. He retired as a sales executive with Graybar in 1923 and had lived in East Orange ever since. His work with the railroads took him to all parts of the country and up to the time of his death he had a wide acquaintance in railroad circles. Among many signal systems whose installation he supervised was that of the D&H between Albany and Scranton. He was also one of the original experimenters with radio installations on transcontinental trains. Mr. Adams was married on September 5, 1892, to Miss Grace Saxton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luman Saxton of Milford, where Mr. Saxton operated a jewelry business at the time. Besides his wife, who survives, he leaves three children, Royal Adams of West Orange, New Jersey; Mrs. Paul Camberling and Rodney Adams of Livingston, N.J. There are also four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, all living in New Jersey. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Livingston, New Jersey, with the Rev. Dr. William Kroll of Arlington Ave. Presbyterian Church officiating." [The Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown, NY), Friday, April 15, 1955, Page 5; obituary provided by Find A Grave Member #47018011]