Brief Life History of Adam Edward
When Adam Edward Best was born on 19 September 1804, in Virginia, United States, his father, Ezekial Best, was 48 and his mother, Katharine Schoner, was 44. He married Elizabeth Campbell on 3 October 1826, in Greene, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died about 1844, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 41.
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- Adam Best, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
- Adam Best, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1810 · Change of capital city
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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