Brief Life History of John Quincy
When John Quincy Adams was born on 15 May 1832, in Burton Township, Adams, Illinois, United States, his father, Elias Adams, was 40 and his mother, Almira Cadwell, was 32. He married Ellen Walsh Dolan on 1 October 1866, in Virginia City, Storey, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Douglas, Nevada, United States in 1880 and Hobart, Douglas, Nevada, United States in 1900. He died on 1 August 1910, in Genoa, Mexican Cession, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Genoa Cemetery, Genoa, Mexican Cession, United States.
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- John Adams in household of Elias Adams, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Quincy Adams, "Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992"
- John Adams, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1861
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Douglas, Nevada Territory, United States 1864: Douglas, Nevada, United States
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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