Ellen F. Adams was born in Springfield, Missouri on June 2, 1893 to Charles Darwin Adams, a Greek scholar, and Julia Stevens. She graduated from Hanover High School in 1911. In 1915 she received a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College, and attended the New York State Library School until 1917. She then worked at Skidmore School of Arts. She became the first woman to receive a full professorship at Dartmouth College as Associate Librarian, and worked there until 1959. In 1955 she received an honarary Master's Degree from Dartmouth College. Her brother David worked as a professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College. Ellen F. Adams died on May 31, 1985 in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
From the guide to the Adams papers MS 0501., 1911-1937., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)
