John Quincy Adams II (1833 - 1894)

Born 22 Sep 1833 in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Cadwallader (Crowninshield) Adams — married 29 Apr 1861 in Brookline, Mass

Descendants

Died 14 Aug 1894 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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John Quincy Adams II (1833-1894) was the grandson of John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President, a Colonel, Union Army, Civil War. and aMember of Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Biography

John Quincy Adams II was the son of Charles Francis Adams, Charles Adams and Abigail Brown Brooks Abigail Brooks and , the grandson and namesake of President John Quincy Adams and the great-grandson of President John Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1853, studied law, attained admission to the bar, and practiced in Boston. He later established an experimental model farm near Quincy, Massachusetts. Adams married Frances (Fanny) Cadwalader Crowninshield (1839–1911), daughter of George (1812–1857) and Harriet Sears Crowninshield (1809–1873) of the politically powerful Crowninshield family.

Timeline

22 Sep 1833: born in Washington, District of Columbia.

1850: ^[1]

14 Aug 1894: died in Quincy, Massachusetts. ^{[2] [3]}

Research Notes

• His son "George Caspar Adams was a former head coach of the Harvard University football program from 1890 to 1892. From 1890 to 1892, he co-coached with George A. Stewart, another Harvard graduate."
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Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX6M-4X8 : 12 April 2016), John Adams in household of L Gardner, Washington, ward 3, Washington, District of Columbia, United States; citing family 250, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "John Quincy Adams II," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Quincy_Adams_II&oldid=794756997 (accessed September 13, 2017).
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK2-GYK9 : 13 December 2015), John Quincy Adams, 1894; Burial, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States of America, Mount Wollaston Cemetery; citing record ID 46627082, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also: Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings. Philadelphia: Porter & Costes, 1891, ed. 2, pp. 68 – 69. Online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009792428

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Stanley Wood for creating Adams-14403 on 21 Nov 2013.

WikiTree profile Adams-10036 created through the import of Quinn-Bradlee_2012-11-07 copy.ged on Nov 16, 2012 by Quinn Bradlee.

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