Professor William Tenney Dutton

Brief Life History of William Tenney

When Professor William Tenney Dutton was born on 7 June 1852, in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Benjamin Dutton, was 28 and his mother, Celina Lane Reed, was 24. He married Laura Melvina Cameron on 17 June 1877, in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. He died on 19 March 1914, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Professor William Tenney Dutton
1852–1914
Laura Melvina Cameron
1854–1937
Marriage: 17 June 1877
Grace Edith Dutton
1878–1892
Bessie May Dutton
1881–1960
Benjamin Dutton
1883–1937
Helen Maria Dutton
1891–1913

Sources (17)

  • Wm.F. Dutton, "United States, Census, 1880"
  • William Tenney Dutton, "Find A Grave Index"
  • William Tenney Dutton in entry for Bess Dutton Utley, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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