Antonina (Antoinette) Szumowska-Adamowska was born February 22, 1868 in Lublin, Poland (died August 18, 1938 in Rumson, NJ). After studying piano in Poland she became a pupil of Ignacy Paderewski in Paris between 1890 and 1895, when she went to America. Joseph Adamowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on July 4, 1862 (died May 8, 1930, in Cambridge, MA). He was a cellist and a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Antonina and Josef were married in Warsaw on 1 September 1895 and took up permanent residence in the U.S. before 1900. They became naturalized citizens in 1929. See "Concise Biographical Dictionary of Noted Musicians Born in Poland," Etude Magazine, February 1915. [Retrieved online 6 March 2011]
