When Joseph William McMurrin was born on 5 September 1858, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph McMurrin Jr, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Leaing, was 32. He married Mary Ellen Hunter on 1 April 1880. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 October 1932, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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.
Irish: variant of McMorran .
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