Brief Life History of James
When James Butler was born on 5 February 1847, in Ponca, Dixon, Nebraska, United States, his father, John Lowe Butler I, was 38 and his mother, Caroline Farozine Skeen, was 34. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Topham on 2 March 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 27 March 1900, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- CENSUS: IA, Pottawatomie Co., James Bulter in household of John L Bulter, "United States Census, 1850"
- JAMES BUTLER, "BillionGraves Index"
- James Butler in entry for Bessie Butler Hardy, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula ‘bottle’). In the large households of royalty and the most powerful nobility, the title came to denote an officer of high rank and responsibility, only nominally concerned with the supply of wine, if at all. As well as being widespread in England, this is also the surname of an important Irish family, descended from Theobald FitzWalter, who was appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177. It is Gaelicized as de Buitléir.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English boteler ‘maker of bottles (usually of leather)’, a derivative of Middle English botel, Old French bo(u)teille ‘bottle’ and synonymous with Botelmaker.
Americanized form of French Bouthillier (see Bouteiller ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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In March 1864 a group of 54 families formed the first party of pioneers to settle what is now Panguitch valley, Utah. Widow Caroline Skeen Butler, her 20-year-old son John Lowe Butler II and his four …
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