Lafayette Adams

Brief Life History of Lafayette

When Lafayette Adams was born on 19 June 1854, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, George Walter Adams, was 33 and his mother, Mary Polly Ann Kesler, was 30. He died on 17 January 1930, in Major, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Major, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Walter Adams
1821–1863
Mary Polly Ann Kesler
1823–1902
Adams
1841–1841
Sarah Ann Adams
1842–1905
Jacob Adams
1846–1846
Nathan Adams
1844–1930
George Washington Adams
1848–1938
William Walter "Bill" Adams
1850–1918
Lewis K Adams
1852–1942
Lafayette Adams
1854–1930
Cornelious W Adams
1856–
Estelle Salinde Adams
1858–1922
Frederick Adams
1861–1918
John Martin Adams
1863–1928

Sources (5)

  • Lafayette Adams in household of Polly Adams, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Lafayette Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Layfette Adams, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (8)

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

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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