Brief Life History of Margaret Dudley
When Margaret Dudley Adams was born on 30 June 1881, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Eliashib Adams, was 32 and her mother, Lillian Winslow Foster, was 31. She had at least 1 son with Charles McDavid Smith. She lived in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 40 years and Ashby, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1963. She died on 2 December 1963, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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- Margaret D Adams in household of Kate L Adams, "United States Census, 1940"
- Margaret Dudley Adams, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Margaret Dudley Adams, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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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