When Phelps Button was born on 24 August 1834, in Ames, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Matthias Button, was 34 and his mother, Amanda Phelps, was 33. He married Margaret Ann Voorhees on 29 December 1857, in Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Canajoharie, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States for about 55 years. He died on 2 August 1911, in Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ames, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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