When John Bittner was born on 21 March 1850, in Milford Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry G Bittner, was 48 and his mother, Magdalena "Mattie" Keefer, was 40. He lived in Northampton Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 21 June 1932, in Summit Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Büttner (see Buettner ). This surname is also found in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary.
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