When John Paul Adamson was born on 17 January 1900, in Lerdala, Västra Götaland, Sweden, his father, Johan August Adamson, was 38 and his mother, Helga Andersson Snygg, was 36. He married Ragnhild Linnéa Margareta Norling on 21 November 1931, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 27 January 1985, in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.
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First Nobel Prize awarded.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name Adam + Middle English son, meaning ‘son of Adam’. The surname is especially common in Scotland, where it is borne by a sept of clan McIntosh. In North America, this surname has absorbed some Polish and possibly also other European patronymics and other derivatives from the personal name Adam. Compare Adams .
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