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