Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Bottorff was born on 7 April 1863, in Tyrone, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Henry Bottorff, was 29 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Bateman, was 22. He married Margaret Jane Morgan on 30 December 1886, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Sterling, Woodward, Decatur Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Cheswick, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 14 December 1966, in Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States, at the age of 103, and was buried in Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- William Bottorff in household of John Bottorff, "United States Census, 1870"
- William H. Bottorff, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- William Henry Bottorff, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1878 · St. Mary's Episcopal Church is Built
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida organized a mission church in 1878 to provide a location that could serve seasonal guests. Visitors and residents from Green Cove Springs raised over $1000 to build the church. On March 10, 1879, the Church held its first service. This location is notable because it would eventually be added to U.S. National Register of Historic Places (February 17, 1978).
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Badorf: habitational name from Badorf, a place in the Rhineland, now part of the town of Brühl. Compare Batdorf , Botdorf , Bottorf , Buttorff , and Pottorff .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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