Brief Life History of William Rufus
When William Rufus Adams was born on 16 November 1871, in Genoa, Mexican Cession, United States, his father, John Quincy Adams, was 39 and his mother, Ellen Walsh Dolan, was 35. He married Katie H. Laverene on 19 February 1901, in Carson City, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Douglas, Nevada, United States in 1950. He died on 10 July 1950, in Genoa, Mexican Cession, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Genoa, Mexican Cession, United States.
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- William R Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
- William R Adams, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
- William R Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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