Adda May Hughes

FemaleOctober 1869–14 April 1925

Brief Life History of Adda May

When Adda May Hughes was born in October 1869, in Darke, Ohio, United States, her father, Richard Thomas Hughes, was 22 and her mother, Nancy Clover, was 23. She married James Francis Sowers on 29 November 1888, in Darke, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 14 April 1925, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Francis Sowers
1868–1960
Adda May Hughes
1869–1925
Marriage: 29 November 1888
Ralph Morrison Sowers
1889–1956
Hazel Sowers
1890–1972
Robert Ward Sowers
1892–1974

Sources (14)

  • Ada Lowers in household of James F Lowers, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Addie M. Hughes, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Adda M. Hughes, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    29 November 1888Darke, Ohio, United States
  • Children (3)

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    Siblings (8)

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    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1872 · Montgomery Ward Inc.

    Age 3

    Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide. 

    1885 · The First Skyscraper

    Age 16

    The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

    Name Meaning

    English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.

    Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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