Researching John Thurston
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2114 people with the Thurston surname? In that year Thurston was ranked number 1765 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Thurston on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Thurston and the Thurston Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thurston Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Thurston family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 3002 people with the Thurston surname in the UK? Thurston is now ranked number 1808 for popularity in the UK. |
Thurston Family Tree Databases
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Thurston Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 18229 people with the Thurston surname in the USA? Thurston is ranked number 151 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Thurston Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on John Thurston. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Thurston
John Mellen Thurston
John Mellen Thurston (August 21, 1847 – August 9, 1916) was a United States Senator from Nebraska.
Thurston was born in Montpelier, Vermont, the son of Daniel Sylvester Thurston and Ruth (née Mellen). He moved with his parents to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1854 and two years later to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He attended the public schools and graduated from Wayland University in Beaver Dam, where he studied law. Thurston was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a city councilman from 1872 to 1874 and the city attorney of Omaha from 1874 to 1877. Thurston then served in the Nebraska House of Representatives from 1875 to 1877.
He married Martha L. Poland (1849–1898) in 1872. After her death in 1898, he married Leodora "Lola" Purman in 1899.
He was appointed assistant attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1877 and general solicitor in 1888. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1880. In 1893, Thurston was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for United States Senator; he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate two years later and served from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901. During his term, Thurston served as the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (Fifty-sixth Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1901. He was appointed as the United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1901. He moved to Washington, D.C., and resumed the practice of law; then in 1915, Thurston returned to Omaha and joined Edwin T. Morrison and Joseph Crow in the law firm of Thurston, Crow & Morrison. He practiced law in Omaha until his death there on from heat prostration on August 9, 1916. His remains were cremated at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha and the ashes were interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Between 1885 and 1890, his portrait was painted in Omaha by artist Herbert A. Collins.
Thurston County, Nebraska is named after him.
John Thurston (artist)
John Thurston — born, Scarborough 1774, — died London 1822, was a British printmaker and illustrator.
He began his artistic career as a copper plate engraver, working for James Heath. Then he took up book illustration, and soon totally devoted himself to it. Most of his illustrations were engraved on block, not plate; a writer in the Polytechnic Journal was later to describe him as "at that time the principal, and indeed almost only artist of any talent in London who made drawings on the block for wood engravers".
His illustrations include those for James Thomson's Seasons and William Somervile's Rural Sports, as well as Shakespeare's works. He was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1794 to 1812.
He died in London, in 1822.
Source: John Thurston (artist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Thurston (basketball)
John Thurston (born April 17, 1948) is an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the St. Francis College women's basketball team from 2012 to 2018. Thurston was born in the Bronx, New York and is an alumnus of Archbishop Molloy High School and Seton Hall University. Through both high school and college, Thurston was a two sport player playing baseball and basketball. After graduating high school in 1966, Thurston was drafted by Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1966 MLB Amateur Draft.
Source: John Thurston (basketball), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Jabez Thurston
John Jabez Thurston (11 October 1888 – 8 January 1960) was an independent member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Fenelon Township, Ontario and became a farmer.
He was elected to Parliament at the Victoria, Ontario riding in the 1921 general election. After serving his only term, the 14th Canadian Parliament, Thurston did not seek re-election in the 1925 vote and was succeeded by Thomas Hubert Stinson of the Conservatives. In the 1926 election, Thurston campaigned at Victoria riding under the Progressive party but was defeated by Stinson.
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