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==Early life== Born in [[East Dover, Vermont]] to [[grocer]] Clyde H. Adams and Winnie Marion Sherman,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0700418 |title=Adams, Sherman Llewelyn |last=Birkner |first=Michael J. |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0700418 |access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref> Adams was educated in public schools in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], graduating from [[Hope High School (Rhode Island)|Hope High School]]. He received an undergraduate degree from [[Dartmouth College]] (1920), having taken time off briefly for a six-month [[World War I]] stint in the [[United States Marine Corps]]. While at Dartmouth, Adams helped found Cabin and Trail,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://outdoors.dartmouth.edu/doc/history.html | title=History of the DOC }}</ref> Dartmouth's influential hiking club, and was a member of the New Hampshire Alpha chapter of the [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dartmouth College Aegis|year=1920|publisher=Dartmouth College|location=Hanover, NH|page=237}}</ref> He then went into the lumber business, first in [[Mount Holly, Vermont|Healdville, Vermont]] (1921), then to a combined lumber and paper business in [[Lincoln, New Hampshire]]. He also was involved in banking.
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