When Almyra Fedelia Dickinson was born on 20 February 1848, in Cambridge, Washington, New York, United States, her father, Reuben Dickinson, was 42 and her mother, Mary Ann Doxtader, was 29. She married Thomas Montravello Butts in 1867, in Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 7 July 1929, in Coldwater, Branch, Michigan, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Burlington, Burlington Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: variant of Dickenson , a patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dicun a pet form of Richard (see Dicken ) + son.
History: Jonathan Dickinson, the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), was born in Hatfield, MA, in 1688. Both his parents came from pioneer Connecticut Valley stock.
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