Brief Life History of Alonzo
When Alonzo Button was born on 22 August 1825, in Hiram, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, Joel Button Sr, was 50 and his mother, Lydia Tower, was 42. He married Sally Ann Prosser on 25 February 1852, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Hopkins Township, Allegan, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 26 April 1904, in Hopkins, Hopkins Township, Allegan, Michigan, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Hopkins, Hopkins Township, Allegan, Michigan, United States.
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- Alonzo Button, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alonzo Butters, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Alonzo Button, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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