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William Duncan S.S.C., J.P.

1839 - 16 May 1904

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William Duncan S.S.C., J.P.

1839 - 16 May 1904
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Grave site information of William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. (1839 - 16 May 1904) at Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom from BillionGraves
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Grange Cemetery
Beaufort Rd
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
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William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. is buried in the Grange Cemetery at the location displayed on the map below. This GPS information is ONLY available at BillionGraves. Our technology can help you find the gravesite and other family members buried nearby.

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Grange Cemetery

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grange,_Edinburgh#Grange_Cemetery
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Beaufort Rd
Edinburgh,City of Edinburgh,Scotland
United Kingdom
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Life timeline of William Duncan S.S.C., J.P.

1839
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was born in 1839
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 1 years old when Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 20 years old when Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface. It is commonly refined into various types of fuels. Components of petroleum are separated using a technique called fractional distillation, i.e. separation of a liquid mixture into fractions differing in boiling point by means of distillation, typically using a fractionating column.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 21 years old when Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States. Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 40 years old when Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 46 years old when Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. was 56 years old when George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
William Duncan S.S.C., J.P. died on 16 May 1904 at the age of 65
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