York. Ruth, a writer and editor, was the daughter of Roderick Potter and Eleanor (née Hotchkiss) Potter, and the attendees at the wedding included Sara Delano Roosevelt, the president's mother. Before their divorce on August 5, 1940, they were the parents of: Gillian Adams (1934–2016), who married Jerry Thomas Bidlack, Kurt Heinzelman, and Warner Barnes, was a teacher at the Buxton School in Williamstown and editor and publisher of Children's Literature Abstracts for the International Federation of Library Associations. Anne Baldwin Adams (1937–2017), who married Carl Avery Bross in 1959. In 1992 she married Durno Chambers Jr. (1933–2004). After their divorce, Ruth immediately remarried to Francis W. LaFarge in Reno, Nevada. Francis was the son of architect Christopher Grant LaFarge and the brother of writer Oliver La Farge and poet Christopher La Farge. They divorced in 1945 and she married Charles Halliwell Duell of Riverside, Connecticut, a founder of the publishing company Duell, Sloan and Pearce who was himself divorced in 1945. In 1941, Adams remarried to Betty Abbott (1917–2012), the daughter of Hunt Abbott of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Together, they were the parents of two more daughters: Judith Adams. Lauren Adams, who married Hubert C. Fortmiller Jr. in 1967. He married his third wife, the Swedish princess Marie-Luise, Princess von Croÿ (b. 1919), on July 23, 1969. Marie-Luise was the daughter of Karl von Croÿ, 13th Duke of Croÿ, and the former Nancy Louise Leishman (daughter of John George Alexander Leishman, a Carnegie Steel executive who served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland, Turkey, Germany and Italy). Her father was a nephew of Princess Isabella of Croÿ, wife of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (who opposed her parents morganatic marriage in 1913) and Marie-Louise was married in 1941 (and divorced in 1949) from Richard E. Metz (son of Herman A. Metz), and widowed from Horatio Nelson Slater III. He died on January 8, 2001, at his home in Chisseaux, Indre-et-Loire in France. Honors Adams was awarded honorary degrees from his alma mater Yale, Williams College, Union College, Hofstra University, and New York University. Works Radical Literature in America: An Address by Frederick B. Adams Jr., to which is Appended a Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club in New York City Overbrook Press, 1939, 61 pages An Introduction to the Pierpont Morgan Library. 1964. Homage to the Book, written with Leonard Baskin. Westvaco Press. 1968 References External