In memory of Robert Borthwick Adam, Feb. 4, 1833-June 30, 1904 : scrapbook, June-July 1904.

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In memory of Robert Borthwick Adam, Feb. 4, 1833-June 30, 1904 : scrapbook, June-July 1904.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52820089

Contains obituaries, tributes, and articles about his estate, from various Buffalo newspapers.

(0.25 linear ft.)

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7659442

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Adam, Robert B. (Robert Borthwick), 1833-1904

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Robert Borthwick Adam (February 4, 1833 – June 30, 1904) was a retailer and book collector from Buffalo, New York. In 1867, Adam co-founded the department store Adam, Meldrum & Whiting. Adam's home at 448 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, built in 1876, still stands. Adam was born in Peebles, Scotland, on February 4, 1833, to Rev. Thomas Adam and Isabella Borthwick. He left school at the age of 10 and went to work in Edinburgh, where he lived until 1857. In 1855, he married Grace Harriet Michie. I...