Brief Life History of Charles Hitchcock
When Charles Hitchcock Adams was born on 25 May 1868, in San Mateo, California, United States, his father, William James Adams, was 38 and his mother, Cassandra Hills, was 31. He married Olive Bray on 10 July 1896, in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Menlo Park, San Mateo, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 August 1951, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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- Charles H Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles Hitchcock Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
- Chas H Adams in entry for Ansel Easton Adams, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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