Brief Life History of Frank Eli
When Frank Eli Adams was born on 3 September 1892, in New London, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States, his father, Samuel Hancock Adams, was 51 and his mother, Margaret Ann Christie, was 33. He married Maria Regina Harmon on 6 November 1913, in New London, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Washington Point, Norfolk, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Opheim, Valley, Montana, United States in 1930. He died in December 1971, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 79.
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- Frankey Adams, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
- Frank E Adams, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Frank Adams, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1910
Historical Boundaries 1910: Valley, Montana, United States
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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