Button was born in Windsor county, Vermont.

The evidence

• “Button, who has been a resident of Rock county. AYisconsin, nearly half a century, and who ranks among her prosperous and substantial farmers, was born in AYindsor county, Vermont, on June 2, 1841, and is the younger of two children of Noah and Nancy (Wilson) Button, and a grandson of Samuel Button, all of whom were natives of the Green Mountain state. Noah Button, who was a tanner and currier by occupation, settled in Rock county in 1857, and followed his trade and engaged to a limited extent in farming—owning some land—until his decease in 1904, at the advanced age of ninety-three years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 580 / book p. 1064

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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