Thursday 3 March 2016

Houston’s Devoted Jeffrey Adamson Educated in Mississippi

Jeffrey Adamson Houston is originally from Dallas, Texas, ranking ninth in size in the United States and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio.   Dallas has historically been known for its oil, cattle and cotton industry and its prominent position as a hub for numerous railroad lines throughout the Southwest.  Today, Dallas is the fourth largest employment center among the nation’s cities, and has the third-largest number of Fortune 500 companies.  Dallas’ economy is diversified in the fields of banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research, and transportation and logistics.



From the large urban center of Dallas, with a population of over 7 million in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metroplex, future Houston resident Jeffrey Adamson moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi after his parents’ divorce.  With a population of around 47,000, Adamson’s final two years of high school would be much different from the other years of his early schooling.  Hattiesburg, though, became Jeffrey Adamson’s hometown, and he embraced the town and the state of Mississippi, forming an affinity for the state which resulted in his return to attend Mississippi State University in Starkville.

Mississippi State University, or MSU, in Starkville, Mississippi, enrolls over 20,000 undergraduate students, 4,000 graduate students, and at least 1,300 in staff, making the University the largest employer in the region.  Jeffrey Adamson of Houston today was enrolled at MSU in 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina.  Starkville, Mississippi, although nearly 200 miles inland, sustained an estimated 18 million dollars of damage from Katrina, with recorded 76 mph wind gusts as Katrina passed northward into the Tennessee Valley.