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Comtesse Albert Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve of Paris, France, who with
their seven children participated in the unveiling ceremonies of the Statue
of Liberty in Paris in 1884, before France sent her commemorative gift to
the United States of America. The Comte and Comtesse moved to the United
States and settled in Beaumont, Texas, in 1886, having come to this country
in search of de Lesseps, with whom they had invested a large purse for the
building of the Panama Canal. On learning of the failure and bankruptcy
of this first company, together with the uncertainties of the French govern-
ment and their own reduced income, they were persuaded by Judge Pipkin
and Mr. Hal Greer to settle in Beaumont and here bring up their family.
Thus they bought 27 acres of land bordering the Neches River, near the
Greer home. The Countess shared her rich cultural heritage in the arts,
languages, music, and literature with others in Beaumont, and assisted Mrs.
Hal Greer in the founding of the Woman's Reading Club in 1895.
For his early education, Gilbert Adams attended the public schools of
Beaumont and then studied at South Park Junior College (later to develop
into Lamar University), graduating in 1926. He went on to Austin, entered
the University of Texas School of Law, and graduated in 1930 with the L.L.B.
degree (before the J.D.). While a student in law, he was an editor of the
Texas Law Review.
Gilbert Adams was recognized as a distinguished and active trial and
appellate attorney as he practiced law in Beaumont over a period of 54 years.
He was a member of the Texas Bar from 1930 and was admitted to practice
before all courts of the State of Texas, the United States District Courts
in Texas, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh
Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. At the time of his death,
he was associated in the practice of law with his son Gilbert T. Adams, Jr.,
and Richard J. Clarkson.
He was highly successful and outstanding as a plaintiff's lawyer in this
part of Texas, usually representing those who had been physically injured
in one way or another. He was the first lawyer to win a total and perma-
nent verdict for a black man in a workman's compensation case tried in
this part of the state. As early as 1937, the Judges of the 58th and 60th
District Courts of Jefferson County appointed Gilbert T. Adams as chair-
man of a Judicial Commission to stamp out the unauthorized and illegal
practice of law in the county. Under Mr. Adams' leadership, public
scandal was brought to an end and the perpetrators were run out of the
county or sent to prison.
As a memorial to Gilbert T. Adams, the Texas Senate and the House
of Representatives framed a Resolution which was presented to the Adams[Vol. XXI, No. I
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