The Adams - Perry Connection: The Hubbell Sisters

Over a year ago I was researching Georgiana Adams Mills and Mason Tyler Adams, brother and sister. I discovered that Mason's wife Juliette later married a Lewis Perry who has a principal at Exeter Academy - an interesting note that I would want to research further. It caught my eye because Phillips Exeter has the highest of reputations among schools, and here it was, a woman connected to our family had married the principal, a man who held the position for over three decades, and, I would read yesterday, who was responsible for bringing in the Harkness investment that resulted in the Harkness method and seminar tables. (My most brilliant teacher in high school at the Forum School of Rome, and probably college and graduate school too, was an Exeter graduate, Edward Steinberg. He put the school on the map for me.) I didn't know if Mason and Juliette had divorced, or what the circumstances were, but I was very intrigued to see a connection with Exeter.

On a side note, until yesterday, I had not discovered a picture I could identify as Mason. I have photos of his sister Georgiana, including a young one of her in a Persian Lamb duster and muffs from perhaps the 1890s. Yesterday I noticed I had a photo connected with Mason's wife's sister, Margaret Lawrie Hubbell. Turns out she Dr. Lewis Perry's first wife. The photo was taken on their wedding day, 11 Nov 1911. I studied the photo, and triple checked the family tree that was taking shape on MyHeritage.com, then I found it.

I discovered that it was a number of years after Mason's death in 1933 that Juliette married Dr. Perry. Then that Mason had died first, so Juliette was a widow. I wondered how she met Dr. Perry.

Then I saw the photo, this photo. (I don't recall its provenance, but in the interest of family history, if it is not one in my possession, I trust I shall be forgiven.)

Left to right:

Mason Tyler Adams and his wife Juliette Emily Hubbell (b. 1880), and one of their daughters. Ruth Rositer Hubbell (b. 1886), Margaret Lawrie Hubbell (b. 1881) with her husband Dr. Lewis Perry.

First I identified Dr. Perry on the far right, on his wedding day, his bride I knew to be Margaret Lawrie, who I discovered was Juliette's sister. Since there are three young women standing side-by-side in a wedding photo, they might be sisters. The woman holding a baby, would likely be the older sister Juliette, who had two daughters about the age of 1 (tho only one in the photo). The girl in the middle might be the youngest sister, and the man next to Juliette, Mason, her first husband.

Does that sound about right? Reasonable? Perhaps it only became clear after studying dates and histories and the family tree.

A little more research online and I found that a Bishop Perry both married the Perry couple, and baptized Juliette Emily Adams, daughter of Mason and Juliette on the same day, November 11, 1911. (The bishop might have been James De Wolf Perry III. Though he shares Lewis' last name I could not find a ready connection.)

Finding the same day baptism and wedding with Bishop Perry would seem to fully confirm the photo's subjects are as identified.

Dr. Perry and Margaret would have two children together. Mason Adams and Juliette had two girls. So in 1938, when widow ed Juliette marries her sister's widower, the family became a family of six.

Looking for Descendants of Nathaniel Dickinson Adams (1813-1856)

I'm looking for descendants of Nathaniel Dickinson Adams of Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and in particular descendants of Charles Dickinson Adams' son Mason Tyler Adams with an interest in family history.

Family papers travel down strange routes. Families have multiple children so the papers may be split up. Children may have no children, so the papers may end up in the fire, the trash, with a distant or near relative, or at a university or historical society.

Nathaniel Dickinson Adams was one of 14 children of Asa Adams II and Clarissa Eastman Adams.

 1. Nathaniel Dickinson Adams b. 1813, d. 1856 had three sons.

1. Charles Dickinson Adams
2. Henry Martyn Adams
3. Herbert Baxter Adams

(Note. I'm looking for photos or portraits of Nathaniel and Charles Dickinson Adams.)

1.2. Henry Martyn Adams was my great great grandfather, as he is to my three siblings, four Lukens' cousins, and two Sutherland cousins, through his son Herbert Henry and Ida Kingsbury's daughter Margaret "Peggy" Suzanne Adams. I have contact with or have recently been in contact with all of Peggy's descendants in 2018.

1. Anora Sutherland McGaha (1 of 4)
2. Peter Adams Sutherland (1 of 4)
3. Margaret "Peggy" Suzanne Adams (1 of 2)
4. Herbert Henry Adams (1 of 3)
5. Henry Martyn Adams (1 of 3)
6. Nathaniel Dickinson Adams

1.3. Nathaniel's third son, Herbert Baxter Adams was a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His great love was teaching. He did not marry and he left most of his papers with the university. Yet some of his papers came to Arthur E. Sutherland and his wife "Peggy" Sutherland and then to my father Peter, and then his wife Carol after his death in 1994. How they came to be in our home is a question. Perhaps they came to Peggy during her life, before 1958, and lived in one of a dozen trunks in the basement of 12 Berkeley Street. Or, they may have come down through Charles Dickinson Adams' descendants, perhaps through Mary Mills, who did not marry, when she died in NYC in 1963, when Arthur's second wife, Mary Kirk Sutherland, went to her apartment to handle her belongings, after another person whose name we don't know, went there first. Among the things that Mary brought back was jewelry and silver, and trunks of photographs, and I presume papers. However it came to us, we have papers. In time they will end up with Johns Hopkins, if they have interest, to join the collection of Herbert Baxter's papers there.

1.1. It is the descendants of Charles Dickinson Adams that I have particular interest in discovering, the descendants of his son Mason Tyler Adams (named after Charles' best friend).

Charles and Harriet Clark had two children.

1. Georgiana who married Franklin Hubbell Mills
2. Mason who married Juliett Emily Hubbell

(Note. I'm still researching the connection if any between Georgianna's Hubbell husband and Mason's Hubbell wife.)

1.1. Georgiana and Franklin had one daughter Mary Mills, and the line ends here.

1.2. Mason and his wife had two daughters, perhaps twins, if the birth dates we have are correct, 21 Sept 1910.

1. Juliette Emily Adams (named after her mother it seems)
2. Margaret Ruth Adams (named after her mother's two sisters perhaps, Margaret and Ruth)

 1.2.1. Juliette Emily Adams married Howard Buddy and had a number of children with whom I would like to connect to see if any of them have an interest in correspondence of their grandfather, Mason Tyler Adams who had a very close relationship with his sister Georgiana, whose only descendant Mary Mills passed away in 1963.

1. Boy
2. Boy
3. Boy
4. Girl
5. Girl

1.2.2 Margaret Ruth Adams married William Learned Peltz. They also had a number of children, and perhaps one of them might share an interest in their mother's father's family history.

1. Mason Peltz
2. William Hun Peltz m. Neville Johanna Farquharson Bryan
3. Thomas Peltz