Brief Life History of Lorenzo
When Lorenzo Adams was born on 10 May 1857, in Norton in the Moors, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Adams, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Mountford, was 42. He married Lillis Elvira Safford on 16 May 1881, in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 November 1924, in Hinckley, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Meadow Cemetery, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- S Adams in household of Samuel Adams, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lorenzo Adams, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Lorenzo Adams, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Morgan, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Morgan, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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