The following was published in Clio’s Corner, a news letter written by Aristotle George Gazonas, John’s cousin.
John Adams could well be cited as the peripatetic businessman of Montgomery County, he’d been everywhere! But first he came to the United States after serving a youthful apprenticeship as a stone mason in Hellas. According to one shard of evidence John toiled on the structures of the 1st modern Olympiad of 1896 in Athens! Later he departed from Piraeus on the S. S. Geneva as a 15-year old and landed at New York City, Sept. 27, 1906 whence he immediately departed for Manchester, New Hampshire where there were many Kantsikiotoi from his Epirote village. Continue reading