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Butler, William Joseph

lawyer, legislator, was born May 13, 1868, in Springfield, Ill. He has attained distinction as a lawyer, and in 1895-96 was a member of the thirty-ninth general assembly of Illinois.

Butman, Samuel

congressman, United States senator. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1822, 1826 and 1827, and was a representative in congress from Penobscot county, Maine, from 1827 to 1831. In 1853 he was again elected to the legislature, and made president of the senate. He died in 1864.

Butterfield, Martin

congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress.

Butters, Mary E

poet, was born in Exeter, Maine. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Harp of Hesper.

Butterworth, Benjamin

state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1837, in Warren county, Ohio. He was a state senator in 1873 and 1874; was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; and in 1884 was appointed commissioner of patents in the department of the interior. He was again elected a representative in the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses.

Butterworth, Theodore

publisher, was born July 7, 1844, in Shelby county, Mo. He is the editor and proprietor of The Western Agriculturalist, of Chicago, Ill.; and has always been identified with the improvement of live stock. He was chairman of good roads congress during the World's Fair.

BUTTLER, CHARLES VOORHEES, physician, was born Jan. 18, 1869, in New Brunswick, N. J. He located in Norwich, Conn., and successfully practiced his profession.

Byerly, William Ellwood

educator, author, was born Dec. 13, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of mathematics at Harvard university; and the author of Elements of Differential Calculus; and Elements of Integral Calculus.

Byers, William Newton

civil engineer, journalist, state legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1831, in Madison county, Ohio. He has been United States deputy surveyor in Iowa, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska and Colorado. He was a member of the first Nebraska state legislature; of the first Colorado constitutional convention; and postmaster of Denver in 1864-66 and 1879-83. He founded The Rocky Mountain News in 1859, of which he was editor and publisher for twenty years.

Byfield, Nathaniel

jurist, author, was born in 1653, in England. He was a jurist of note in Massachusetts in the colonial period; and the author of Account of the Late War in England, 1689. He died June 6, 1733, in Boston, Mass.

Byford, Henry T

educator, physician, was born Nov. 12, 1853, in Evansville, Ind. He is a professor of gynæcology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical school and professor of clinical gynæcology in the Woman's Medical college. He is gynæcologist to St. Luke's hospital; and surgeon to the Woman's hospital of Chicago, Ill.

Byford, William Heath

physician, author, was born March 20, 1817, in Eaton, Ohio. He was a physician of prominence in Chicago; and the author of Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to Diseases and Accidents Peculiar to Women; Theory and Practice of Oband Philosophy of Domestic stetrics; Life. He died in 1890.

Byington, Ezra Hoyt

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Hinesburgh, Vt. He graduated from the university of Vermont in 1852, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1857. He was librarian at the New England Historical and Genealogical society, and has filled pastorates in various cities. He is the author of The Puritan in England and New England, and a large number of local histories.