Adams, Alvin
founder of the Adams Express company, was born June 16, 1804. In 1840 Alvin Adams engaged in the then novel specialty of forwarding parcels, money, and valuable merchandise between Boston and New York by way of Worcester, Norwich and New London, beginning in a little store in Boston.
Later he formed the partnership of Adams and Co., with Ephraim Farnsworth, the latter taking charge of the New York office, and being succeeded at his death soon afterwards by William B. Dinsmore.
In 1854 Mr. Adams effected a union of four concerns under the name of The Adams Express Co., and became president of the organization. He died Sept. 2, 1877, in Watertown, Mass.