Olive Dutton

Female8 April 1808–28 January 1877

Brief Life History of Olive

When Olive Dutton was born on 8 April 1808, in Stowe, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, her father, Daniel Benedict Dutton, was 34 and her mother, Lorana Smith, was 29. She married William King on 31 December 1838, in McLean, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Summerset Township, Adair, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died on 28 January 1877, in Madison Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mahaska, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

William King
1784–
Olive Dutton
1808–1877
Marriage: 31 December 1838
Catherine L King
1839–1861
Albert A King
1841–1861

Sources (12)

  • Olive King in household of Wm King, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Olive Dutton, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
  • Olive King, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    31 December 1838McLean, Illinois, United States

    • Children (2)

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    Siblings (13)

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    World Events (8)

    1812

    Age 4

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1812 · War of 1812

    Age 4

    Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 22

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    Name Meaning

    English (Cheshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire): habitational name from either Dutton in Cheshire or Dutton in Lancashire. The first is named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; the second from the Old English personal name Dudd(a) (see Dodd 1) + Old English tūn.

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

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