Brief Life History of Button
When Button was born in 1882, in Dallesport, Klickitat, Washington, United States, his father, Lewis Henry Button, was 33 and his mother, Emiline S Wilson, was 29.
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889 · Washington Becomes a State
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
Name Meaning
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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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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