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==Family background==

==Family background==

'''Cayton''' (some sources erroneously state his given name as "Clayton") '''Bidwell''' (his preferred name of address) '''Adam''' (some sources misspell his name as "Adams") was born in [[Mobile, Alabama]], but reared on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Pass Christian (pronounced CHRIS TEE ANN) east of [[New Orleans]],  [[Louisiana]].<ref name=histharr/> There his father, Emile J. Adam, Sr. (1864–1942), was for a time the [[mayor]] and also the editor of ''The Coastal Beacon,'' later the ''Tarpon-Beacon,'' the newspaper of western Harrison County. Adam's older brother, Emile J. Adam, Jr. (1891–1968), was a lawyer, alderman, and the city attorney for Pass Christian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://city.passchristian.net/inn_at_the_pass.htm|title=City of Pass Christian: The Inn at the Pass|publisher=city.passchristian.net|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Adam's mother was the former Mattie G. Capers (1866-1954).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47220923|title=Emile Adam, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>​

'''Cayton''' (some sources erroneously state his given name as "Clayton") '''Bidwell''' (his preferred name of address) '''Adam''' (some sources misspell his name as "Adams") was born in [[Mobile, Alabama]], but reared on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Pass Christian (pronounced CHRIS TEE ANN) east of [[New Orleans]],  [[Louisiana]].<ref name=histharr/> There his father, Emile J. Adam, Sr. (1864–1942), was for a time the [[mayor]] and also the editor of ''The Coastal Beacon,'' later the ''Tarpon-Beacon,'' the newspaper of western Harrison County. Adam's older brother, Emile J. Adam, Jr. (1891–1968), was a lawyer, alderman, and the city attorney for Pass Christian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://city.passchristian.net/inn_at_the_pass.htm|title=City of Pass Christian: The Inn at the Pass|publisher=city.passchristian.net|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Adam's mother was the former Mattie G. Capers (1866–1954).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47220923|title=Emile Adam, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>​

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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]], 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/>​

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]], 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>​

Jack Capers Adam, the youngest son of Bidwell and Edna Adam, was stricken with asthma as a boy and sent from Pass Christian to Phoenix, where he was educated at the Southern Arizona School for Boys and became thereafter an [[Episcopalian]] priest. He worked to establish St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, [[Nevada]], with financial help from such luminaries as the comedians [[Bob Hope]] and Jack Benny (1894–1974) and the newspaper publisher Hank Greenspun. Known as "Father Jack" he subsequently left the Episcopal Church because of his opposition to the ordination of women, a policy implemented in 1976. He then became a [[Roman Catholic]]. He relocated to Mesa, Arizona to operate a jewelry store and continued mostly anonymous contributions to St. Jude's Ranch and youth causes. He died three days before his 75th birthday and is interred at Boulder City Cemetery. Jack Adam was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, Ranelle Adam, and a daughter, Nancy A. Porter, both of Boulder City. A second daughter as well as his two brothers predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/oct/09/capers-adam-1932-2007/|title=Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007)|date-October 9, 2007|publisher=''The Las Vegas Sun''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>​

Jack Capers Adam, the youngest son of Bidwell and Edna Adam, was stricken with asthma as a boy and sent from Pass Christian to Phoenix, where he was educated at the Southern Arizona School for Boys and became thereafter an [[Episcopalian]] priest. He worked to establish St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, [[Nevada]], with financial help from such luminaries as the comedians [[Bob Hope]] and Jack Benny (1894–1974) and the newspaper publisher Hank Greenspun. Known as "Father Jack" he subsequently left the Episcopal Church because of his opposition to the ordination of women, a policy implemented in 1976. He then became a [[Roman Catholic]]. He relocated to Mesa, Arizona to operate a jewelry store and continued mostly anonymous contributions to St. Jude's Ranch and youth causes. He died three days before his 75th birthday and is interred at Boulder City Cemetery. Jack Adam was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, Ranelle Adam, and a daughter, Nancy A. Porter, both of Boulder City. A second daughter as well as his two brothers predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2007/oct/09/capers-adam-1932-2007/|title=Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007)|date-October 9, 2007|publisher=''The Las Vegas Sun''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>​