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Adams entered The University of Georgia in October 1882 as a sophomore. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society and was elected, also as a sophomore, as a class declaimer for graduation ceremonies in 1883. Adams was a “Second Founder” of the re-chartered Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta as a junior and initiated when the chapter was installed on April 26, 1884. Also, in his junior year, he was selected as an orator during the 1884 commencement and later also as a senior, during his own graduation on June 16, 1885, an honor bestowed by the faculty to those with the highest academic standings in the class.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, February 1885, p.185:
Brother P. H. Adams secured two speaker’s places for the junior class commencement, one for class standing and one for composition, and reflected great credit both upon himself and his chapter on that occasion. He was elected by his class to deliver the class tree oration, this being a well-deserved compliment to his excellence as a writer and speaker. His effort fully met all expectations and was highly applauded ...
His senior class poem, “Haec olim meminisse juvabit,” a title taken from the Aeneid, which translates approximately as: ‘It will please (us) one day to remember these things,’ was delivered at the planting of the Senior Class tree on North Campus on December 8, 1884 and was reproduced in its entirety in The Phi Gamma Delta magazine of February 1885, p. 151. In the April 1886 edition of The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, Adams’ six-page essay, “What Will He Do With It?” was published: “Scholarship alone is but a wooden staff. Add to your scholarship pluck and perseverance, and you have the same staff shod with iron, and it will last a lifetime.”
After graduating from Georgia, Adams accepted an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. The University Reporter, University of Georgia, Sunday, October 25, 1885, p. 2: “... Adams will go to West Point.” The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 57: “P. H. Adams has stood his examination for a cadetship at West Point, and will leave for that place sometime in March. He is now at his home in Washington, Ga., engaged in his studies.”
His father was John Quincy Adams (UGA 1859; Demosthenian) - of Wilkes County, Georgia - who served in the Confederate Army in the 63rd Georgia Regiment. He was promoted to Captain. In his reply to the 1901 questionnaire on the occasion of The University of Georgia’s Centennial Anniversary, he wrote of his war experience:
“Was badly wounded in Confederate war - never will get over it or forgive the miserable fools who forced war upon us - the biggest, fool-war ever since the world was created.”
Brother Adams moved to Atlanta after his schooling and joined the law firm of Mason & Hill. He was an attorney in private practice in downtown Atlanta (Marietta Street office) before being appointed federal bankruptcy judge (“referee”), in which position he served for more than 25 years. Lived at 35 Muscogee Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” November 1929, p. 213:
PERCY H. ADAMS
(Georgia ‘85)
One by one the members of old Kappa Deuteron Chapter at the University of Georgia are passing to the stars. The latest name to be written among those ad astra is that of Percy Hoyle Adams (Georgia ‘85), who died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., on July 21, 1929. Brother Adams was ... the son of a distinguished Georgia family whose home occupied the present site of Agnes Scott College. For more than 20 years he was federal referee in bankruptcy for the north Georgia district.
After his death, his widow, Charlotte Greene, married Daniel Burke in 1951, a New York lawyer who became Chairman of the R. T. French Company [French’s mustard, etc.] and was President of the American Bible Society for almost 20 years. Burke, a graduate of Hamilton College (1893), was a trustee for the school and the library there is named in his honor.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, February 1885, p.185:
Brother P. H. Adams secured two speaker’s places for the junior class commencement, one for class standing and one for composition, and reflected great credit both upon himself and his chapter on that occasion. He was elected by his class to deliver the class tree oration, this being a well-deserved compliment to his excellence as a writer and speaker. His effort fully met all expectations and was highly applauded ...
His senior class poem, “Haec olim meminisse juvabit,” a title taken from the Aeneid, which translates approximately as: ‘It will please (us) one day to remember these things,’ was delivered at the planting of the Senior Class tree on North Campus on December 8, 1884 and was reproduced in its entirety in The Phi Gamma Delta magazine of February 1885, p. 151. In the April 1886 edition of The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, Adams’ six-page essay, “What Will He Do With It?” was published: “Scholarship alone is but a wooden staff. Add to your scholarship pluck and perseverance, and you have the same staff shod with iron, and it will last a lifetime.”
After graduating from Georgia, Adams accepted an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. The University Reporter, University of Georgia, Sunday, October 25, 1885, p. 2: “... Adams will go to West Point.” The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, January 1886, p. 57: “P. H. Adams has stood his examination for a cadetship at West Point, and will leave for that place sometime in March. He is now at his home in Washington, Ga., engaged in his studies.”
His father was John Quincy Adams (UGA 1859; Demosthenian) - of Wilkes County, Georgia - who served in the Confederate Army in the 63rd Georgia Regiment. He was promoted to Captain. In his reply to the 1901 questionnaire on the occasion of The University of Georgia’s Centennial Anniversary, he wrote of his war experience:
“Was badly wounded in Confederate war - never will get over it or forgive the miserable fools who forced war upon us - the biggest, fool-war ever since the world was created.”
Brother Adams moved to Atlanta after his schooling and joined the law firm of Mason & Hill. He was an attorney in private practice in downtown Atlanta (Marietta Street office) before being appointed federal bankruptcy judge (“referee”), in which position he served for more than 25 years. Lived at 35 Muscogee Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
The Phi Gamma Delta magazine, “Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nuc Ad Astra,” November 1929, p. 213:
PERCY H. ADAMS
(Georgia ‘85)
One by one the members of old Kappa Deuteron Chapter at the University of Georgia are passing to the stars. The latest name to be written among those ad astra is that of Percy Hoyle Adams (Georgia ‘85), who died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., on July 21, 1929. Brother Adams was ... the son of a distinguished Georgia family whose home occupied the present site of Agnes Scott College. For more than 20 years he was federal referee in bankruptcy for the north Georgia district.
After his death, his widow, Charlotte Greene, married Daniel Burke in 1951, a New York lawyer who became Chairman of the R. T. French Company [French’s mustard, etc.] and was President of the American Bible Society for almost 20 years. Burke, a graduate of Hamilton College (1893), was a trustee for the school and the library there is named in his honor.
