Iiams Family Genealogy
- Who Was
Who was John Dorsey Iams?
1920 – 1996
John Dorsey Iams graduated from MIT in 1942 with a Physics degree and a senior thesis on aircraft-cockpit precision instrumentation. He trained at the Army Signal Corps' top-secret radar school at Camp Murphy, Florida, served through the end of the war in occupied Germany, …
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Summary of the will of William Burgess
1622 – 1686
The will of William Burgess is preserved at the National Archives in London, one of only two wills from Anne Arundel colonists found in the English archives. With the assistance of ChatGPT, we transcribe and analyze this will to uncover insights into the life of William Burgess …
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- Who Was
Who was William L. Iams?
1872 – 1896
1872 Born, Greene County, Pa. 1892 Court-martialed at Homestead 1892 Officers indicted, then acquitted 1895 Arrested in Baltimore 1896 Shot at his boarding-house 1896 Died, Maryland University Hospital William L. Iams was nineteen years old, a private in Company K of the Tenth …
- Who Was
Who was Raleigh Brown Ijams?
1858 – 1907
Raleigh Brown Ijams (1858–1907) was the fifth of nine children in an old Maryland mercantile family. He never married, worked in his brother John's New York business circle, and died of tuberculosis at 48. We know him at all because of one brief letter he dictated from a Saranac …