Edward Dean Adams

Edward Dean Adams
BornApril 9, 1846 
Boston 
DiedMay 20, 1931  (aged 85)
New York City 
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Norwich University
Spouse(s)Frances Amelia Gutterson 
Awards

Edward Dean Adams (April 9, 1846 – May 20, 1931) was an American businessman, banker, philanthropist, and numismatist.

He was the president of Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company which built the first hydroelectric power plants in Niagara Falls, New York. The Adams Power Plant Transformer House is named after him. He was "conspicuously successful in corporate reorganizations".

He also had wide cultural interests, including numismatics, and he played a leading role at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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