Franklin Montravello Butts

Brief Life History of Franklin Montravello

When Franklin Montravello Butts was born on 16 February 1888, in Homer, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, his father, Thomas Montravello Butts, was 42 and his mother, Almyra Fedelia Dickinson, was 39. He married Martha B Dickinson on 19 October 1935, in Vermontville, Vermontville Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died in 1942, at the age of 54, and was buried in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.

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Franklin Montravello Butts
1888–1942
Martha B Dickinson
1899–1979
Marriage: 19 October 1935
Thomas Montraville Butts
1936–1998

Sources (16)

  • Franklin M Butts, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Franklin M Butts, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
  • <Unknown>, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"

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1890 · Woman's Suffrage

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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

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.

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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