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Buttre, John Chester

engraver, was born June 10, 1821, in Auburn, N. Y.

In his youth he developed a talent for drawing; and in 1841 moved to New York city, and thereafter gave his attention to steel-plate engraving. He arose to the very head of his profession; and he brought out steel engravings of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Jackson, McClellan, Burnside, and other celebrities, of which the aggregate sale amounted to several million copies. He also made a specialty of mezzo-tints, and won considerable reputation through this style of work. He died Dec. 2, 1893, in Ridgewood, N. J.

BUTTS, MRS. MARY FRANCES BAR- BER, author, poet, was born in 1836, in Rhode Island. She is a writer of popular juvenile works; and the author of Three Girls; Lottie; Nellie's New Home; Lizzie and Her Friends; and The Frolic Series. She is also the author of a volume of poems, entitled Cockle Shells and Silver Bells.