When Birdie Ella Butts was born on 9 October 1875, in Homer, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, her father, Thomas Montravello Butts, was 29 and her mother, Almyra Fedelia Dickinson, was 27. She married William Casper Hollenbach on 20 April 1897, in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 20 June 1962, at the age of 86, and was buried in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, San Jacinto, Riverside, California, United States.
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The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
After the second state capitol had been destroyed, Michigan Governor Henry P. Baldwin initiated the passing of a bill that would cover the costs for a new building. The bill was adopted and raised over $1 million by a six year state income tax. Architect Elijah E. Myers' design named Tuebor, or I will defend, was selected and he was commissioned to design the new capitol building. The renaissance revival brick and sandstone building soared 267 feet from the ground and was dedicated on January 1, 1879.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.
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