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Butterworth, Hezekiah

author, poet, was born Dec. 22, 1839, in Warren, R. I. In 1870 he became connected with the Youth's Companion as assistant editor, a position which he filled for a quarter of a century. He is best known as the author of Zigzag Journeys, of which nearly half a million copies have been sold. Besides publishing several volumes of Zigzag Journeys, Great Composers, The Knight of Liberty, In the Boyhood of Lincoln, The Patriot Schoolmaster, and other popular juvenile books, he is the author of two collections of musical verse, Songs of History; Poems for Christmas, Easter, and New Year's.