Brief Life History of Joseph Smith
When Joseph Smith Adams was born on 14 December 1846, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Arza Matson Adams, was 42 and his mother, Sabina Clark, was 34. He married Karen Caroline Hansen on 8 March 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 July 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Joseph Adams, "United States Census, 1870"
- Joseph Adams, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Joseph Adams, "Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966"
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1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
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When Joseph Smith Adams was born on 14 December 1846, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Arza Matson Adams, was 42 and his mother, Sabina Clark, was 34. He married Karen Caroline Han …
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