When John Almon Butterfield was born on 10 September 1884, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Butterfield, was 31 and his mother, Lucy Wheadon, was 26. He married Margaret Emma Farmer on 17 August 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 8, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 18 May 1965, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Herriman Cemetery, Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English: habitational name from Butterfield (Yorkshire) or from any of several other minor places with the same name. The name is derived from Old English butere ‘butter’ + feld ‘field’ or ‘open country’.
History: Benjamin Butterfield came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. John Butterfield (1801–69) was born in Berne, NY, and founded an express company that merged with other companies to form the American Express Company (1850).
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