Herbert Eric Adams (1899 - 1918)

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Shannon L. (Owen) Adams

Shannon L. (Owen) Adams

Minnie A Adams

Elsie Hester (Adams) Keith

Elsie Hester (Adams) Keith

Jeff Adams

wedding of Roslyn to John Woods

Shirley (Mackey) Adams wedding day

William Bobby Adams

Jewelene Clark Adams

Teresa Adams Halcomb Clippard

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In 1899, in the year that Herbert Eric Adams was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

In 1900, at the age of just 1 year old, Herbert was alive when the unemployment rate in the U.S. was 5.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was $0.02. 31% of all workers were employed in the public service sector, 19% of women were employed (1 percent of all lawyers and 6 percent of physicians were women), 6% of the workforce were children, and 14% of the workforce was "non-white."

In 1903, Herbert was merely 4 years old when two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the first powered heavier-than-air plane. They flew 4 times in one day - the longest flight lasting 59 seconds and a little over 852 feet. While the brothers had notified several newspapers of their attempt, only one - a local paper - covered it. After their 4th flight, a gust of wind caught the plane, turned it over, and totaled it.

In 1918, in the year of Herbert Eric Adams's passing, federal spending was $12.68 billion, unemployment was 1.4% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 3 cents.