Brief Life History of Hugh LeRoy
When Hugh LeRoy Adams was born on 26 June 1914, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, his father, Hugh Leech Adams Jr, was 32 and his mother, Barbara Ellen Matheson, was 31. He married Elaine Sandberg on 4 November 1944, in St. George Utah Temple, St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. He immigrated to World in 1940. He died on 22 October 1964, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Parowan Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States.
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- H LeRoy Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
- Adams, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
- Hugh Leroy Adams, "Utah Marriages, 1887-1935"
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1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a park that contains over 800 paleontological sites and fossils. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1928 · Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon, being named after Ebenezer Bryce, was designated first as a national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 but was re-designated as a nation park in 1928 by Congress.
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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