Brief Life History of Burns Martin
When Burns Martin Bolton was born on 1 March 1874, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Alexander Bolton, was 36 and his mother, Theodora Dort, was 34. He married Mary Young on 25 February 1899, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 4 May 1911, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Milton Township, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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- Burns Bolton, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Burns Martin Bolton - birth-name: Burns Martin Bolton
- Burus M. Bolton, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland, from Old English bothl ‘dwelling, house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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