Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Adams was born on 24 March 1863, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, George Adams, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Marsh, was 23. She married Charles Francis Thompson in April 1888. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Dodge, Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Mantorville, Dodge, Minnesota, United States in 1880. She died on 16 October 1926, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Emma Adams in household of G. Adams, "United States Census, 1880"
- Emma M. Thompson, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Emma M. Adams, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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