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Adam graduated from Pass Christian High School and then in 1913, at the age of nineteen, from Millsaps College in the state capital of [[Jackson]]. There he received legal training to pass the state bar examination. He served as a private in the [[United States Army]] in [[France]] during [[World War I]]. Adam practiced law in Gulfport for many years and served on the Mississippi Bar Commission.<ref name=histharr/>
Adam graduated from Pass Christian High School and then in 1913, at the age of nineteen, from Millsaps College in the state capital of [[Jackson]]. There he received legal training to pass the state bar examination. He served as a private in the [[United States Army]] in [[France]] during [[World War I]]. Adam practiced law in Gulfport for many years and served on the Mississippi Bar Commission.<ref name=histharr/>
On February 25, 1920, he married the former Edna Quick (1900-1988), who was an alternate delegate to the 1928 [[Democratic National Convention]], which met in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], to assemble the unsuccessful [[Al Smith|Smith]]-[[Joseph T. Robinson|Robinson]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/female.html|title=Mrs. Bidwell Adam|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> The couple had three sons, Cayton Bidwell Adam, Jr. (1922-1963), Robert Borden Adam, Sr. (1925-1968), and Jack C. Adam (1932-2007).<ref name=histharr/>
On February 25, 1920, he married the former Edna Quick (1900-1988), who was an alternate delegate to the 1928 [[Democratic National Convention]], which met in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], to assemble the unsuccessful [[Al Smith|Smith]]-[[Joseph T. Robinson|Robinson]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/female.A-C.html|title=Mrs. Bidwell Adam|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> The couple had three sons, Cayton Bidwell Adam, Jr. (1922-1963), Robert Borden Adam, Sr. (1925-1968), and Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007).<ref name=histharr/>
In January 1968, Robert Adam, Sr., a lawyer and [[World War II]] veteran, and Robert's two daughters, Mary Canon "Nan" Adam (1949-1968) and Margaret "Peggy" Adam (1959-1968), perished in a house fire. Robert rescued his wife, Ann Bell Adam (1924-1968), but she died five months later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117115373|title=Robert Borden Adam, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Bidwell Adam's grandson, Robert B. "Robin" Adam, Jr. (1947-2001), a former long-term resident of [[California]], died at the age of fifty-four in an automobile accident in [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52374827|title=Robert B. Adam, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>
In January 1968, Robert Adam, Sr., a lawyer and [[World War II]] veteran, and Robert's two daughters, Mary Canon "Nan" Adam (1949-1968) and Margaret "Peggy" Adam (1959-1968), perished in a house fire. Robert rescued his wife, Ann Bell Adam (1924-1968), but she died five months later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117115373|title=Robert Borden Adam, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Bidwell Adam's grandson, Robert B. "Robin" Adam, Jr. (1947-2001), a former long-term resident of [[California]], died at the age of fifty-four in an automobile accident in [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52374827|title=Robert B. Adam, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>