Edward Dean Adams’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American entrepreneur
Was Businessperson 
From United States of America 
Type Business 
Gender male
Birth 9 April 1846
Death 20 May 1931
(aged 85 years)

Edward Dean Adams (9 April 1846 – 20 May 1931) was an American businessman. He was the president of Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company which built the first hydroelectric power plants in Niagara Falls, Canada. The Adams Power Plant Transformer House is named after him. Adams appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine on May 27, 1929.

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