His father, Wincenty Adamowski, was an artist and music lover, who worked as a civil engineer and an administrator, and settled in Warsaw to a life of public philanthropy.

[2] Upon his arrival in America he traveled as soloist with Maurice Strakosch and Clara Louise Kellogg; with his own troupe he played in a number of larger cities as well.

[6] "[W]hen Timothee Adamowski conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in popular summer concerts, he was referred to in newspaper accounts as the 'Idol of the Pops'".

[5] He also taught at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1885 until 1886, where his students included composer and violinist Elise Fellows White.

He died April 18, 1943, at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachusetts and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.