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Samuel Adams grave marker in the Granary Burying Ground. Samuel Adams is a controversial figure in American history. Disagreement about his significance and reputation began before his death and continues to the present. [288] [289] Adams's contemporaries, both friends and foes, regarded him as one of the foremost leaders of the American ...
Margaret Kemble was born in New Brunswick, Province of New Jersey, and lived in East Brunswick Township. [1] [2] [3] She was the daughter of Peter Kemble, a wealthy New Jersey businessman and politician, and Gertrude Bayard; the granddaughter of Judge Samuel Bayard (b. 1669) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (b. 1674); and the great-granddaughter of Mayor of New York City Stephanus Van Cortlandt ...
Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
Charles James Koch (/ k ʊ k / KUUK; born May 27, 1949) [1] [2] [3] is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and the co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company, the producers of Samuel Adams beer. Koch is widely considered to be a founding father of the American craft brewing movement. [4]
His health failing, Hancock spent his final few years as essentially a figurehead governor. With his wife at his side, he died in bed on October 8, 1793, at age 56. [201] [202] By order of acting governor Samuel Adams, the day of Hancock's burial was a state holiday; the lavish funeral was perhaps the grandest given to an American up to that time.
“The ‘Brewing the American Dream’ program was created 10 years ago by Jim Koch — brewer and founder of Samuel Adams. When Jim Koch started Boston Beer Company and Samuel Adams almost 35 ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Samuel Adams (1722–1803), revolutionary, delegate to the Continental Congress and governor of Massachusetts, John Adams's second cousin. Samuel A. Adams (1934–1988), historian and CIA analyst. John Donley Adams (born 1973), American politician and lawyer.