Brief Life History of Christina Elizabeth
When Christina Elizabeth Adams was born in May 1881, in Germany, her father, John F. Adam, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Suzanne Lesnau, was 22. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Frank William Abend. She died on 29 June 1955, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States.
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- Christina E Abend, "United States 1950 Census"
- Christina Elizabeth Adams Abend, "Find A Grave Index"
- Christina Adams in entry for Anthony Francis Kretschmer, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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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.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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