Brief Life History of George Jefferson
When George Jefferson Butterfield was born on 11 June 1888, in Herriman, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Butterfield, was 35 and his mother, Lucy Wheadon, was 30. He married Ellen Sarah Gustava Lundell on 30 August 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 9 May 1965, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- George J Butterfield, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Jefferson Butterfield, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- George J. Butterfield, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
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.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
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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