When Alice Maud Gorman was born on 15 July 1879, in Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Henry Gorman, was 26 and her mother, Lorance Yerxa, was 25. She married David Stanley Turnbull on 29 June 1898, in Williamsburg, Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in York, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years and Cross Creek, Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada in 1931. She died on 17 July 1965, in Greenville, Piscataquis, Maine, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Williamsburg, Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada.
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On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Irish (Munster): from Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue, noble’.
Americanized form of German Görmann: variant of Germann .
Americanized form of German Görmann: of Slavic origin, an occupational name for a miner, from Slavic gora ‘mountain’ + Middle High German man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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