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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This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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.
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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