Adams Family Home, Original Site, Saline, Michigan, 1916
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This is the parsonage where well-known newspaper writer George Matthew Adams was born and raised. His father was a Baptist minister in the neighboring First Baptist Church of Saline, Michigan. Henry Ford became acquainted with Adams and, in 1937, moved the parsonage to Greenfield Village--Ford's historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
This is the parsonage where well-known newspaper writer George Matthew Adams was born and raised. His father was a Baptist minister in the neighboring First Baptist Church of Saline, Michigan. Henry Ford became acquainted with Adams and, in 1937, moved the parsonage to Greenfield Village--Ford's historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1916
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
P.188.21580
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in pencil on verso: Baptist Parsonage, Saline, Built 1833 (West Side & Front) Taken 1916. Birthplace, George Matthew Adams, 1878, Editor "Today's Talk" [nationally syndicated newspaper column]. Father, George M. Adams, Baptist Minister, Saline, 1876-1879. Served three years, died in Iowa in 1907. Purchased by Mr. Henry Ford for Greenfield Village June 29th 1937. Moved Sept. 20th to Sept. 25th 1937.
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