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Note for: Frank Elliot Adams, 24 May 1889 - Index

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      Frank was born in Kansas City, Mo., graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1906, and attended University of Kansas; was salesman and later Office Manager of Conico Oil Company in Denver, Colorado; was in business in Springfield and later in collector's office of the City of Springfield. He is an excellent contract bridge player; member of Hickory Hills Country Club.
        Frank's father was Frank Xavier Adams (b. Mar. 8, 1860 in Humboldt, Kansas) who was the son of Samuel Adams and Mary Beele.
        Frank's mother was Emma Patton Fry (b. Sept. 19, 1865 in Florence, Alabama), daughter of Thomas Jefferson Fry and Sarah Eleanor Hill (born in Thorne, England). Sarah Eleanor was a cousin of Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - an English administrator, educationalist, author of the Penny Postal System, buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Note for: Raymond P. Low, 16 Dec 1890 - Index

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Raymond was an aviator in World War I.; lived in San Diego.

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Note for: Teresa Kilham, 25 Aug 1898 - Index

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A.B. Vassar 1920, having spent part of the four years at Radcliffe; was in Paris with the family in 1920, studied design in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. In between trips was a freelance designer in various fields as illustration, fashion, textiles, and advertising, mostly in New York but also in Paris. Has traveled in Mexico, Guatemala, North Africa, fourteen countries of Europe, and Central America. Served a year during World War II in the Corps of Engineers, Passive Defense Dept. Then became Architectural Color Designer in her brother Walter's office, mostly in the field of colleges and universities.

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Note for: Walter Harrington Kilham, 29 Apr 1904 - Index

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      Walter, A.B. cum laude Harvard College (1925) m. Arch., School of Architecture, Harvard (1928), student New York University School of Architecture (1929-30), Graduate School of Business Administration (1931). Awarded Wheelright Travelling Fellowship, Harvard 1938 - Moscow to Macchu Picchu.
        He traveled extensively all over the world from 1920 to 1960. See list in "Harvard Travel Club.”
        He was with Rockefeller Center Architects (1929-32) and partner in several architectural firms including Van dergracht & Kilham and O'Conner & Kilham. During World War II was Chief of the Site Planning Section of the New York District of the U. S. Army Engineers. His work included Carroll College Library (Wisconsin), Firestone Library at Princeton, Barnard College Library, National Library of Medicine, New Cadet Barracks U.S. Military Academy (1962), and many educational and military buildings. He has been a trustee on many boards relating to art, architecture, schools, and colleges. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and Academician in the National Academy of Design. See “Who's Who”.

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Note for: Rose Louise Collins, 22 Apr 1921 - Index

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Rose's father was Harry Bruce Collins of Scottish parentage, who received his education as an engineer at McGill University. Her mother's forebears (Guilbault-de Rosier) were French-Canadian through many generations.

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Note for: Peter Houston Kilham, 12 Dec 1906 - Index

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Peter Kilham is an artist and inventor; inventor of computing gun sight for bombers; also of metal forming machines and manufacturer of same in his own company - Curvit Corporation - of which he was president. At one time all Pratt & Whitney jet engines, all Chevrolet cars, and almost all the doll carriages in the United States had parts formed on machines designed and made by his company. The company was sold in 1958 but is still operating.
At present Peter is president of Droll Yankees, Inc., producers of phonograph records of New England; he does all the recording, editing, and art work. The company is first in its limited field. In 1961 one of the jacket designs by Peter was chosen (by the American Institute of Graphic Arts) as one of the two best done in this country.