When William Robert Turnbull was born on 19 September 1863, in Ada, Township of Ada, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Robert Turnbull, was 24 and his mother, Margaret Winton Taylor, was 21. He married Laura Jane MacNaughton on 6 June 1894, in Ada, Township of Ada, Kent, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Township of Ada, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died in 1907, at the age of 44, and was buried in Township of Ada, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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 .
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