When George Washington Turpin was born on 16 March 1852, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William Turpin, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Tidswell, was 36. He married Ellen Booth on 16 February 1881, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in North Jordan Precinct, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 February 1926, in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in West Jordan City Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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French and English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Turpin, representing the falling together of the Old Norse name Thórfinnr (composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology + the ethnic name Finnr ‘Finn’; compare Turvin ) and of the Latin name Turpinus (from Latin turpis ‘ugly, base’), one of the self-abasing names adopted as a mark of humility by the early Christians (it was borne by the archbishop of Rheims in the Charlemagne legend), and of the Old French and Middle English form.
History: Alexandre Turpin from France married Marie-Charlotte Beauvais in Montreal, QC, in 1684.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names(written by his daughter, Effie Ellen Turpin) My father always had milk cows and my brothers would milk them so we always had plenty of milk and cream. We had a gallon freezer and my father stored ic …
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