When William Edward Boeing Sr. was born on 1 October 1881, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Wilhelm F Böing, was 35 and his mother, Marie M. Ortmann, was 28. He married Bertha Cranston Potter in 1921, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1956 and lived in Fall City, King, Washington, United States in 1956 and Washington, United States in 1956. He died on 28 September 1956, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in British Columbia, Canada.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Belle Isle Park is a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River between Michigan and Ontario. Belle Isle is the largest city-owned island park in the United States, and it is connected to mainland Detroit by the MacArthur Bridge. It's home to the Belle Isle Aquarium, the Belle Isle Conservatory, the Belle Isle Nature Center, the Detroit Boat Club, the James Scott Memorial Fountain, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a municipal golf course, a half-mile swimming beach, and numerous monuments.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
North German (mainly Böing): patronymic from the ancient Germanic personal name Boio (possibly meaning ‘boy’; see Boy 1 and Boye 1).
History: William Boeing (1881–1956), the founder of The Boeing Company, was a son of Wilhelm Böing from Hohenlimburg, Germany, who emigrated to the US in 1868.
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