Darwin Adams

Brief Life History of Darwin

When Darwin Adams was born on 3 August 1880, in Vergennes, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, Pollaus Newell Adams, was 37 and his mother, Eliza Ann Goodrich, was 32. He married Bessie Ellsworth Burrell about 1903, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 2 June 1948, in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 67.

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Darwin Adams
1880–1948
Bessie Ellsworth Burrell
1885–1941
Marriage: about 1903
Mildred Burrell Adams
1903–1904
Adams
1914–1914

Sources (16)

  • Darwin C Adams in household of Frank E Burril, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Darwin C. Adams, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • Darwin Clark Adams, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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World Events (8)

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.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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