Brief Life History of William Albert
When William Albert Adams was born on 19 December 1874, in Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, William Henry Adams Jr, was 29 and his mother, Melissa Jane Caldwell, was 23. He married Virginia Brann on 1 April 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States for about 20 years and United States in 1949. He died on 4 June 1966, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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- William Albert Adams, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- William Albert Adams, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- William Albert Adams, "Utah, County Marriages, 1903"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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Mission Trip and Travels
This is a poem that Albert himself wrote about his mission, courtesy of my grandpa. I was born in a place called Utah, A state you all know well, Brought up by Mormon parents, So the tru …
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