History

Spurlins in the historical record.

• Benjamin Spurling of the Cranberry Isles · History mixed
  Benjamin Spurling (1752–1836) was a New Hampshire-born sea captain and Revolutionary War militia corporal. He is described as the first permanent settler of Great Cranberry Island, Maine, founded a long line of Spurlings there, and is buried in the family's Revolutionary War cemetery above Spurling Cove.
• Board of Education v. Spurlin (Colorado, 1960) · History strong
  Board of Education v. Spurlin, 141 Colo. 508 (1960), was a Colorado Supreme Court case against E. T. Spurlin as state controller. The court held that officers of the State Department of Education were exempt from the classified civil service.
• Charles D. Spurlin (historian) · History mixed
  Charles Dennis Spurlin (1932–2013) was a Texas historian and Victoria College professor. He wrote Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War and a history of Waller's 13th Texas Cavalry Battalion, and edited the Civil War diary of Charles A. Leuschner.
• Daniel R. Spurlin (Vietnam War) · History strong
  First Lieutenant Daniel Raymond Spurlin (1942–1968) of Atlanta was a U.S. Army adviser with MACV Advisory Team 92. He was killed by small-arms fire in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, on September 19, 1968, and is buried in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
• Daniel Spurlin (Hardin County, Iowa, pioneer) · History strong
  Daniel Spurlin (1807–1868) was a North Carolina-born blacksmith who settled in Union Township, Hardin County, Iowa, in 1851. He was killed in a sleigh accident on his way home from church meetings, is buried in Hauser Cemetery at Whitten, and county histories and newspapers record his family.
• Emma Spurlin Patman and Wright Patman · History strong
  Emma (Spurlin) Patman was the mother of Wright Patman (1893–1976), a Texas congressman for 47 years, co-author of the Robinson–Patman Act and longtime chairman of the House Banking Committee.
• Federal land patents to Spurlins · History strong
  The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office records list 94 federal land patents to people surnamed Spurlin, issued between 1823 and 1963. Most are for land in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana before the Civil War.
• J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw (1956) · History strong
  J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [1956] EWCA Civ 3 is an English Court of Appeal decision on exclusion clauses, best known for Lord Denning's "red hand rule". The claimant, J. Spurling Ltd, was a London warehousing company; its name uses the related surname Spurling, not Spurlin.
• James M. Spurlin (Georgia Baptist preacher) · History mixed
  Rev. James M. Spurlin (1802–1887) was a Baptist preacher, ordained in Chambers County, Alabama, who served churches in Randolph County, Alabama, and Troup and Fayette counties, Georgia. He is buried at Antioch Baptist Church in Fayette County, Georgia.
• James Utley Spurlin (Kentucky Baptist preacher) · History strong
  Rev. James Utley Spurlin (1824–1909) was a Baptist preacher in western Kentucky for about 65 years and the first pastor of Sinking Fork ("Brick") Baptist Church in Christian County. In 1907 the Hopkinsville Kentuckian called him the second-oldest Baptist preacher in the state. He died near Sinking Fork on 30 October 1909. His son John H. Spurlin and grandson Lindsay Spurlin were also preachers; a great-grandson, J. T. Spurlin, organized a church in Juneau, Alaska, and another grandson, R. P. Spurlin, was a dentist in Berryville, Arkansas.
• John E. Spurlin (Confederate soldier) · History strong
  John E. Spurlin (1841–1861) was a Rutherford County, North Carolina, farmer. He enlisted in the 16th North Carolina Infantry in 1861 and, according to the regimental roster, died of typhoid fever at Warrenton, Virginia, that December; a 1937 county history gives a different date and place.
• People v. Spurlin (1984) · History strong
  People v. Spurlin, 156 Cal. App. 3d 119 (1984), is a California appellate decision holding that heat-of-passion provocation must come from the person killed. A defendant provoked by one person cannot claim it for killing someone who did not provoke him.
• Spurlin Family History in America · History mixed
  An overview of Spurlin and Spurling families in America, from colonial Virginia and New England through southern and western migration, Civil War service, and published genealogies.
• Spurlin historical markers · History strong
  Nine markers and memorials transcribed in the Historical Marker Database name a Spurlin, from a Georgia church founder of 1842 and an Alabama Masonic officer of 1852 to veterans on Confederate, World War I and Vietnam War memorials.
• Spurlin in American case law · History strong
  A guide to published American appellate decisions with a party named Spurlin, from an 1818 North Carolina dispute over a whiskey still to 21st-century cases on public records, county government and bankruptcy crime. Each summary is drawn from the opinion's own text.
• Spurlin v. General Motors Corp. · History strong
  Spurlin v. General Motors Corp., 528 F.2d 612 (5th Cir. 1976), arose from a 1968 school-bus brake failure in Morgan County, Alabama. The Fifth Circuit reinstated a jury verdict for the plaintiffs, and the case is taught as an example of the standard for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
• Spurlins in Historic American Newspapers · History strong
  The Library of Congress's Chronicling America collection returns thousands of newspaper pages for the Spurlin name, from Louisiana politics in 1886 and an Indiana 'ghost' lawsuit in 1897 to a Texas railroad town named for John L. Spurlin and a runaway locomotive in 1935.
• Spurlins in the American Civil War · History strong
  Spurlins served on both sides of the Civil War. They included Confederates from North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee and Union soldiers from New Hampshire, Iowa, Indiana and Tennessee. This roundup collects service-index records, rosters, pension, pardon and soldiers' home records, and county-history accounts.
• Spurlins in the Congressional Record · History strong
  Federal congressional publications mention the Spurlin name in modern tributes and Senate nomination lists, in private pension acts for two Indiana Civil War veterans (1910 and 1914), and in 19th-century printed lists of voters, pensioners, pardons, claims and land entries.
• Spurlins in the World Wars · History strong
  Five Army soldiers surnamed Spurlin, from Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas, appear on the War Department's 1946 lists of World War II dead. Two are buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Italy and the Philippines.
• Spurlins of Hamilton County, Texas · History strong
  John L. Spurlin (1853–1935), a Hamilton merchant, banker and railroad promoter and a nephew of John H. Reagan, was a founding director of the Hamilton National Bank in 1890 and gave his name to the railroad town of Spurlin in northwestern Hamilton County.
• United States v. Spurlin (2011) · History strong
  United States v. Spurlin, 664 F.3d 954 (5th Cir. 2011), is a Fifth Circuit bankruptcy-crimes decision. It held that a general power of attorney can be used to file a bankruptcy petition for someone else, reversed one false-oath conviction for insufficient evidence, and affirmed convictions for concealing estate assets and for bankruptcy fraud.
• W. F. Spurlin (Camden, Alabama jeweler) · History strong
  William F. Spurlin (c. 1823–1915) was a jeweler in Camden, Alabama, and a Confederate veteran of the 53rd Alabama Partisan Rangers. His 1913 Confederate Veteran account of the last issue of Confederate treasury notes is still discussed by currency historians.
• W. H. Spurlin (Tipton County, Indiana, preacher) · History mixed
  Rev. Wilford H. Spurlin (1833–1919) was an Ohio-born farmer and Separate Baptist preacher who cleared a homestead in Tipton County, Indiana, after 1872. He is profiled in an 1898 county biographical history, and 1915 and 1919 obituaries tie him to the Spurlins of Shelby County, where his brother Ithamar was sheriff.
• William Dexter Spurlin (Presbyterian minister) · History strong
  Rev. William Dexter Spurlin (1860–1935), an Alabama-born Southern Presbyterian minister, served churches at Cleveland, Tennessee, Demopolis, Alabama, Monroe, Louisiana, and Laurel, Mississippi.