Brief Life History of Hugh Leech
When Hugh Leech Adams Jr was born on 23 May 1882, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, his father, Hugh Leech Adams Sr, was 30 and his mother, Juliette Cecelia Bayles, was 22. He married Barbara Ellen Matheson on 4 June 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Parowan Election Precinct, Iron, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 28 November 1957, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Parowan Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States.
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- Hugh L Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
- Hugh L Adams, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Hugh Leech Adams, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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HUGH LEECH ADAMS, HISTORY By Lillian A. Grimshaw The history of Hugh Leech Adams, Jr. was researched and written by his eldest daughter, Lillian. She has spent many, many hours compiling …
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