Druggist-Journalist Achieves Success in Banking Business Also

W.D. Adams Named Head of Bank in Forney

Pioneer Businessman Fills Place Vacated by J.C. Reagan’s Death

Dallas Morning News
Sunday, 1 October 1939
Section 4, Page 6

Special to The News

FORNEY, Texas, Sept. 30 – At the age of 67, Walter D. Adams, pioneer businessman of this city, added a third field to his two man commercial interests Saturday when he was elected president of the Forney State Bank.

Throughout his adult life Mr. Adams has been known over a wide area as a druggist and a journalist. His election Saturday added banking to his career.

He worked in the drugstore of his brother, S.N. Adams, at Kaufman, while attending public school. Later he served his apprenticeship in the print shop of the Kaufman Sun. In 1887, when he moved to Forney, he combined the two fields by working in a drugstore and serving as correspondent for The Dallas News, a duty he still performs. Later he founded the Forney Tribune, then sold his interests, attended Texas A&M, returned to Forney and eventually became the sole owner of his pharmacy there.

Active in Masonic circles, a past president of the National Pharmaceutical Association and a guiding spirit for many years in the operation of the Forney Sanitarium, Mr. Adams is a familiar figure to settlers for many miles around Forney, of which city he once was Mayor,

As president of the Forney bank, he succeeds the late J.C. Reagan [Reagin].