Brief Life History of William David
When William David Campbell was born on 25 September 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Campbell, was 38 and his mother, Agnes Brown, was 32. He married Lisadore Amelia Taylor on 24 April 1907, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in McGill, White Pine, Nevada, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 1, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 5 February 1979, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- William David Campbell, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: William David Campbell - Published information: birth-name: William David Campbell
- William D. Campbell, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1890
Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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