Osmond Button

Osmond Button located on section 6, Burr Oak township, in 1866. His farm is in a finely improved state, and contains 320 acres. Mr. Button was born in Rutland Co., Vt., March 12, 1821, and is a son of Joseph and Mary Button. his parents went, in 1833, to Chautauqua Co., N.Y., where he remained until the age of twenty-one, when he went to Wisconsin. Five years later he went back to New York and, April 27, 1847, was married to Eveline, daughter of Vincent and Mary Jenks, born in Niagara Co., N.Y.

They resided in New York six years, and went to Wisconsin, where Mr. Button was engaged in agriculture in Fond du Lac county. He went to California in 1860, where he spent four and a half years and returned to Wisconsin.

His next move was to Mitchell county. After a brief stay in Osage township, he purchased and occupied his farm in Burr Oak. Mr. and Mrs. Button had five children - M. Arrilla is the wife of L.O. Smally of Dakota; Albert R. married Abbie F. Bush and resides in Osage City; Lucretia J. died at the age of nineteen; Cyrus J. married Carrie Case, and lives on the homestead; Evelyn, youngest child, resides with her parents. Mr. Button is a Republican.