When Ella Pearl Turnbull was born on 19 November 1866, in Jefferson, Iowa, United States, her father, John Turnbull, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Jane Ruggles, was 25. She married Ephraim Clay McCleary on 3 December 1884, in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Black Hawk Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Locust Grove Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died on 18 October 1926, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Fell Cemetery, Libertyville, Jefferson, Iowa, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (Durham and Northumberland) and Scottish: occupational name for one who herds bulls, from Middle English turne-bole, a compound of Middle English t(o)urnen ‘turn, direct, steer’ + bul(l)e ‘bull’. Compare Bulman and Bullard.
Scottish (Roxburghshire): in the Scottish borderlands the name was either confused with or derived from Trumble .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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