John Quincy Adams

Brief Life History of John Quincy

When John Quincy Adams was born on 22 March 1856, in Sidney Township, Fremont, Iowa, United States, his father, Jerome Jefferson Adams, was 21 and his mother, Mary Angeline Frost, was 20. He married Elizabeth Anne Humphreys on 15 June 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. He lived in Woodrow, Millard, Utah, United States in 1920 and Clark, Nevada, United States in 1930. He died on 2 May 1937, in Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Quincy Adams
1856–1937
Mary Humphreys
1861–1949
Marriage: 9 December 1878
William Adams
1879–1880
Jerome Samuel Adams
1881–1922
Mary Elizabeth Adams
1883–1910
Ella Adams
1886–1905
John Quincy Adams Jr.
1888–1953
Minnie Adams
1891–1979
Ishmael Adams
1894–1905
May Adams
1897–1899
Joseph Henry Adams
1899–1960
Jennie Adams
1902–1992
Dora Adams
1907–1994

Sources (60)

  • John Q. Adams, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: John Quincy Adams - Published information: birth-name: John Quincy Adams
  • John Quincy Adams, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines

The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.

1865

Historical Boundaries: 1865: Pah-Ute, Arizona Territory, United States 1867: Lincoln, Nevada, United States 1909: Clark, Nevada, United States

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.

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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A Story of the John Quincy Adams Family

A STORY OF THE JOHN QUINCY ADAMS FAMILY (Parents of Mary Elizabeth Adams Thayne) By Minnie Adams Jenkins, Sept. 1963 I. THE MOVE TO OLD MEXICO I am writing this history with the thought in view of lea …

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