When George John Adams was born on 23 April 1874, in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Adams, was 27 and his mother, Martha Ann Field, was 29. He married Temperance May Evans on 7 June 1894, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Old Whittington, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Orem Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 22 September 1948, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1877: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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Possible Related NamesHistory told by Lula May Adams: George was born in Pennsylvania in 1874. His father and mother joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were baptized in England. They came to Americ …
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