New York Stock Brokers in Caricature: Frederick T. Adams

 

F. T. ADAMS & CO.

NOV

4

1901

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Frederick T. Adams ran his own firm as a member of the New York Stock Exchange.  Like many other wealthy brokers, he seemed to pass much of his free time at his yacht club and on his own yachts.  Adams' yacht club, The Atlantic Yacht Club, was so significant that it had write-up in The New York Times in 1898, with a brief bio of Adams and his involvement:

The Commodore of the club this year is Frederick T. Adams, and the flagship is the famous schooner Sachem.  Commodore Adams has been a member of the club for several years, and has worked hard to make it successful.  For three years he was Vice Commodore, and for two out of those three years was Acting Commodore while George J. Gould was in Europe.  When the new clubhouse was proposed, Commodore Adams entered heart and soul in the new undertaking, and it was largely through his efforts that the scheme was carried out so successfully.  Commodore Adams is a member of the Stock Exchange, a Governor of the New York Club, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the New York Athletic Club, and of several other yacht clubs.

Frederick T. Adams, from The Stock Exchange in Caricature, 1904:

From The New York Times, September 18, 1898:

Adams is the gentleman with the cap at the center left of the page