Brief Life History of Kenneth Dwight
When Kenneth Dwight Adams was born in 1931, in South Dakota, United States, his father, Edward Edwin Adams, was 52 and his mother, Caroline Cecelia Stoltenberg, was 46. He lived in Stewart Township, Tripp, South Dakota, United States for about 5 years. He died on 14 March 2012, in South Dakota, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Gregory, Gregory, South Dakota, United States.
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- Kenneth D Adams, "South Dakota State Census, 1945"
- Kenneth Adams, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016"
- Kenneth D Adams, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
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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