Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Captain Benjamin Dutton was born on 3 April 1883, in Shippensburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Professor William Tenney Dutton, was 30 and his mother, Laura Melvina Cameron, was 28. He married Hildegarde M. Herwig on 2 March 1912, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States in 1930. He died on 30 November 1937, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, United States.
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- Benjamin Dutton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Benjamin Dutton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Benjamin Dutton, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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