Brief Life History of Gerald Joseph
When Gerald Joseph Adams Sr. was born on 22 December 1931, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, his father, John A. Adams, was 39 and his mother, Narcissa Leonard, was 36. He married Ethel Smith about 1952, in Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 28 November 1979, at the age of 47, and was buried in Lafayette Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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- Gerald Adams in household of John Adams, "United States Census, 1940"
- Gerald Adams, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Gerald J Adams in entry for Herman J Adams, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1932
Los Angeles, California, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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