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James Adams collection, 2020-03-02, bulk 1943-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Adams, James, 1925-2001
Extent:
.5 Linear Feet 1 half box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], James Adams collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-12-2004

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to James Adams who served as an infantryman with the 26th "Yankee" Division and later the 87th Infantry regiment, part of General George Patton's 3rd Army. The collection contains letters and postcards from James Adams to family, mostly his mother.

Biographical / historical:

James Adams was born August 1, 1925, the third child of Jacob Adams (1889-1941) and Clara Adams, near Jordan (1893-1965). The parents of both Jacob and Clara immigrated from Germany before the U.S. Civil War. Clara's father, John Jordan (1847-1916), served in the Minnesota 8th Infantry in 1864-65. Following the war, John homesteaded a 360-acre farm in rural Hennepin County (Minneapolis is the county seat) and served as the first clerk of court in Plymouth Township, immediately west of Minneapolis. The farm on which Jacob was born was adjacent to that of John Jordan. Both Jacob Adams and Clara Jordan attended a German-speaking rural Catholic school, though Jacob completed just two grades and Clara six. Jacob and Clara were second cousins and required approval of the Catholic Church to marry. Jacob and Clara, who were married November 12, 1918 in the rural Catholic Church of Holy Name in Medina Township, Minnesota, had six children: Marianne (1919 -); Agnes (1922-1993); James (1925-2001); Rita (1926 -); John (1928-2006) and William (1935 -).

Custodial history:

Check file with the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience.

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], James Adams collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-12-2004

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA