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].
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 Smith-Robinson ticket [REF].