When Martha Butterfield was born on 21 June 1819, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States, her father, Zachariah Butterfield, was 36 and her mother, Martha Hiscock, was 31. She married Dominicus David Elmore on 3 December 1840, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Freedom Township, Waseca, Minnesota, United States for about 25 years. She died on 9 December 1904, in Janesville, Waseca, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Alma City Cemetery, Alma City, Waseca, Minnesota, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Grant, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Grant, Wisconsin, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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