When Stephen Albert Adams was born on 9 March 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Barnabas Lothrup Adams Jr, was 33 and his mother, Edna Melissa Searle, was 25. He married Iva Viola Johnson on 29 May 1906, in Deep Creek, Uintah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to World in 1939 and lived in United States in 1949 and Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 28 April 1975, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
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