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Dr. Wilson Harmon Button

Birth
Leavittsburg, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA
Death
12 Dec 1940 (aged 82)
Hubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Hubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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1940 Ohio death, certificate #77901: Dr. Wilson Harmon Button, age 82 years, 10 months, 28 days, married white male. Husband of: Lillian Hartung. Residence: W. Liberty Street. Length of residence: 44 years. Occupation: physician. Years in occupation: 50. Served in U.S. Navy or Army: no. Date of birth: Jan. 14, 1858. Birthplace: Leavittsburg, OH. Father: Alfred Button, born do not know, mother Salina Smith, born do not know. Date of death: Dec. 12, 1940 at 10 a.m. Place of death: Hubbard, Trumbull Co., OH. Principal cause of death: Hypertensive cardiac disease. Contributory cause: diabetes mellitis, onset 1920; arteriosclerosis, onset 1930; chronic nephritis, onset 1940. D. Gross, MD, Hubbard, OH, attended Jan. 10 to Dec. 12, 1940. Burial date: 14 Dec 1940. Burial place: Oakdale. Informant: Alfred T. Button, RD#1, Hubbard, OH.

History of Trumbull County (Ohio), 1909, page 87: One of the most skillful and well known physicians practicing at Hubbard, Trumbull county, is Dr. W.H. Button. He came from an honored pioneer family, his father being Alfred H. Button, who was reared in Warren township, this county. The grandfather was also named Alfred. The father of Dr. Button is still living, aged eighty years. The mother was Salina Smith, a native of Parkman township, Geauga county, Ohio, the daughter of Captain and Nancy Smith. The mother lived to the age of seventy-six years. She was the mother of three daughters and one son. These children were as follows: Dr. W.H., Nancy, deceased; Loverne, deceased; Cora, wife of E.E. Prentice. Dr. W.H. Button was born in Warren township, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 14, 1858. He was educated at Nelson Academy and Hiram College, and taught school a number of years in Nelson township and in Southington. He was early impressed with the idea of becoming a physician, and studied medicine with Dr. E.J. Goodsell, at Nelson, as well as with Dr. Harmon of Warren. He graduated from Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, in 1883, locating at Burghill, Ohio, where he remained in medical practice for four years. There the doctor was postmaster under President Cleveland's first administration. In 1889 he removed to Brookfield, where he practiced five years, and two years at Parkman, Geauga county, from which place he moved to Hubbard in 1896. During his twelve years' practice in Hubbard he was highly successful, and won many friends among the best class of citizens. He is a member of both the State and Trumbull County Medical Societies, and a reader of the latest literature in the science of medicine, which keeps him fully abreast with the time and thoroughly competent to treat in a successful manner all states of diseases which come within his practice. The doctor is a Mason, belonging in the Odd Fellows and Knights Templar orders, of which he is an active member. He has been a member of the school board for eight years, and is now a member of the town council. July 21, 1885, he was married to Lillian Hartung, daughter of Rev. C.F. Hartung of Canton, Ohio. The doctor and his wife are the parents of the following children: Lamont H., Alfred A. and Fred H.
1940 Ohio death, certificate #77901: Dr. Wilson Harmon Button, age 82 years, 10 months, 28 days, married white male. Husband of: Lillian Hartung. Residence: W. Liberty Street. Length of residence: 44 years. Occupation: physician. Years in occupation: 50. Served in U.S. Navy or Army: no. Date of birth: Jan. 14, 1858. Birthplace: Leavittsburg, OH. Father: Alfred Button, born do not know, mother Salina Smith, born do not know. Date of death: Dec. 12, 1940 at 10 a.m. Place of death: Hubbard, Trumbull Co., OH. Principal cause of death: Hypertensive cardiac disease. Contributory cause: diabetes mellitis, onset 1920; arteriosclerosis, onset 1930; chronic nephritis, onset 1940. D. Gross, MD, Hubbard, OH, attended Jan. 10 to Dec. 12, 1940. Burial date: 14 Dec 1940. Burial place: Oakdale. Informant: Alfred T. Button, RD#1, Hubbard, OH.

History of Trumbull County (Ohio), 1909, page 87: One of the most skillful and well known physicians practicing at Hubbard, Trumbull county, is Dr. W.H. Button. He came from an honored pioneer family, his father being Alfred H. Button, who was reared in Warren township, this county. The grandfather was also named Alfred. The father of Dr. Button is still living, aged eighty years. The mother was Salina Smith, a native of Parkman township, Geauga county, Ohio, the daughter of Captain and Nancy Smith. The mother lived to the age of seventy-six years. She was the mother of three daughters and one son. These children were as follows: Dr. W.H., Nancy, deceased; Loverne, deceased; Cora, wife of E.E. Prentice. Dr. W.H. Button was born in Warren township, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 14, 1858. He was educated at Nelson Academy and Hiram College, and taught school a number of years in Nelson township and in Southington. He was early impressed with the idea of becoming a physician, and studied medicine with Dr. E.J. Goodsell, at Nelson, as well as with Dr. Harmon of Warren. He graduated from Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, in 1883, locating at Burghill, Ohio, where he remained in medical practice for four years. There the doctor was postmaster under President Cleveland's first administration. In 1889 he removed to Brookfield, where he practiced five years, and two years at Parkman, Geauga county, from which place he moved to Hubbard in 1896. During his twelve years' practice in Hubbard he was highly successful, and won many friends among the best class of citizens. He is a member of both the State and Trumbull County Medical Societies, and a reader of the latest literature in the science of medicine, which keeps him fully abreast with the time and thoroughly competent to treat in a successful manner all states of diseases which come within his practice. The doctor is a Mason, belonging in the Odd Fellows and Knights Templar orders, of which he is an active member. He has been a member of the school board for eight years, and is now a member of the town council. July 21, 1885, he was married to Lillian Hartung, daughter of Rev. C.F. Hartung of Canton, Ohio. The doctor and his wife are the parents of the following children: Lamont H., Alfred A. and Fred H.


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