Strachan/Tate Family

Ernest David Button1945

Name
Ernest David Button
Birth
Birth of a son
#1
John Lang Button
22 Oct 1900
Birth of a son
#2
Ernest D. Button Jr.
12 Jul 1904
Death 11 Dec 1945
NameWilliam Carman.FTW
Shared note
[William Carman.FTW] Ernest David His Education, Grad. from public school of Schagiticoke. Pre= General manger of J.P. Lang Engine & Garage Comp. Ithaca, New York. He graduated as a Civil Eng. he worked before Ithaca with the Ill. Central Railroad comp. Freeport, Ill. Albert Lea Minn., building road betweem Lisle and Albert Lea Minn.Effingham Ill as aCivil eng 1900 to Memphis Tenn as Ast. Eng then 1901 to Fulton Ky.,as asst Eng then to Ithaca, with the firm of Lang & Button. In 1907 He is a Pepulblican, 20 Years Fire Commissioner, All wth all the Civic Orgenzations. They belong to the 1st Pfresbyterian Church. She is a very beautfull girl, Her uncle Phillip Ryder noted photopher, took may pictures of her.. Of which I have many they will become part of this project/ All most all of the Buttons in the United States are related to one another and descended from a common ancestor, Mathias Button, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628. Wi have a fairly complete family genealogy. Button Families of America. This book was compiled by R. Glen Nye, edited by Katherine (Watson) Nye, published in 1971, and is cataloged under Library of Congress No; 72-149509. I have heatd that there is also anothe(Much more ancient book called the BOOK OF BUTTON available at the historical society in Boston.