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A copy of the Ellis Island passenger record and Wall of Honor certificate for John T. Adams.

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When John Adams was around 20 years old he decided that he was going to America to start a new life.
Somehow, I’m not sure of the details, he made his way to the port of Napoli (Naples), Italy and boarded this ship that brought him to the U.S.A.  Continue reading →

Copies of the Europa’s manifest showing John Adamou a.k.a. John Adams sailing from the port of Napoli Italy and arriving in the U..A. on Feb. 20, 1907.

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 →

John Taylor Adams was born in Drosopigi (north east of Ioannina and in Konitsa township)
His birth name was Ioannis Telis tou Adamou which translated means John Telis son of Adam. His surname is certified as Telis from his birth certificate from Kantsikon (Now Drosopigi)

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