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William Watkins Gunn 1861 - 1935

William Watkins Gunn was born on December 27, 1861 in Cardigan, Ballarat City County, VIC Australia to Donald Gunn and Jane (Surman) Gunn, and had siblings Barbara (Gunn) Padgett, Mary Jane Gunn, Catherine Alexandrina Gunn, Donald Gunn, Hugh Gunn, and John Alexander Gunn. He married Margaret Jane (Balbarrie) Gunn, and had children Violet Helen (Gunn) Wadeson, Edith Mary Gunn, John William Gunn, and Jean Margaret (Gunn) Milner. William Gunn died at age 73 years old on June 24, 1935 in Crossover, Baw Baw Shire County, and was buried at Warragul Cemetery in Warragul.

William Watkins Gunn
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December 27, 1861
Cardigan, Ballarat City County, VIC, 3352, Australia
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Crossover, Baw Baw Shire County, VIC, Australia
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    The Australasian. Melbourne. 1st August 1891. MARRIAGES. GUNN.- BALBARRIE. On the 24th June, at Kinclune, Bloomfield, Gippsland, by the Rev. J. R. Steel, William Watkins, second son of D. Gunn, of Ballarat, to Margaret Jane, eldest daughter of the late John Balbarrie, Bloomfield. The Warragul Guardian. 26th October 1900. DISTRICT NEWS. NEERIM SOUTH. Mr. Gunn, the industrious proprietor of the saw mills at Crossover, purchased a 12 h.p. locomotive, for hauling timber on his tramway from the mill to the station. ( In 1900 there was a request by the Postal Department for Bloomfield to change its name, due to there already being a Bloomfield near Creswick, so after March 1st 1910 Bloomfield was known as Nilma.) Nilma - aboriginal, meaning home of the Gang Gang cockatoo. GUNN'S Sawmill, Crossover Victoria.
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In 1861, in the year that William Watkins Gunn was born, on August 5th, in order to help pay for the Civil War, the Federal government instituted the first income tax in the United States. The Revenue Act of 1861 was rescinded in 1862 but from 1861 through 1862, a flat tax was charged - 3% - on all income over $800, which included only 3% of households. In 1862, a broader tax was enacted.
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In 1885, by the time he was 24 years old, on February 16th, the first Dow Jones Industrial Average was published by Charles Dow, who also founded the Wall Street Journal. The index was 62.76. It represented 12 stocks - American Cotton Oil, American Sugar, American Tobacco, Chicago Gas, Distilling & Cattle Feeding, General Electric, Laclede Gas, National Lead, North American, Tennessee Coal and Iron, U.S. Leather pfd. and U.S. Rubber.
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Gunn, Elizabeth (Born Jan 28, 1842) Gunn, Velva May (Born Apr 1, 1921) Gunn, Jane (Born Nov 21, 1938) Gunn, Sarah (Born Jun 17, 1913) Gunn, Richard (Dec 10, 1907 - Sep 9, 1992) Gunn, Mima (Feb 1, 1890 - Mar 1967) Gunn, Paul (Jan 26, 1915 - Jul 11, 1998) Gunn, Carlan (Jul 24, 1903 - Aug 1985) Gunn, Frances (Sep 19, 1916 - Nov 1975) Gunn, Robert (Feb 6, 1917 - Jan 19, 1994)
Gunn, Theodore (Jan 27, 1886 - Nov 1968) Gunn, Beulah (Jun 4, 1892 - Nov 1975) Gunn, Clayton (Nov 7, 1924 - Dec 18, 1994) Gunn, Barbara (May 17, 1918 - Jan 20, 1997) Gunn, Velma (Oct 11, 1908 - Jan 31, 2007) Gunn, John (Jul 31, 1947 - Nov 13, 1993) Gunn, Gilman (Apr 20, 1923 - Nov 12, 2007) Gunn, Leonard (Oct 1, 1926 - Jul 26, 2005) Gunn, John (Feb 27, 1934 - Dec 23, 2007) Gunn, May (Feb 27, 1902 - Feb 1968)
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