Butler, Roderick R – Butterworth, Theodore
Butler, Roderick R
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 8, 1827, in Wytheville, Va. He was a justice of the peace; a major of the militia; a postmaster under President Fillmore; served two years in the state assembly and one in the state senate. He was a county judge; was a lieutenant-colonel during the rebellion; and was subsequently judge of the first judicial district of the state, holding the office from 1865 to 1867.
He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Butler, Samson H
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1840 to 1843.
Butler, Simeon
publisher, manufacturer, author, was born in 1770. In 1792 he established the first publishing house in western Massachusetts at Northampton. He printed the earliest American edition of Vattel's Law of Nations, and the first volume of Massachusetts supreme court reports, and brought out Dwight's School Geography. He also engaged in paper-making, and manufactured the first domestic letter paper used by the United States senate. He died in 1847 in Northampton, Mass.
Butler, Thomas
congressman, was born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1818 to 1821. He died Aug. 14, 1847.
Butler, Thomas Belden
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 22, 1806, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a Connecticut jurist whose Philosophy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later in enlarged form as a Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System. He served in the Connecticut state legislature; and was a representative in congress in 1849-51. He died June 8, 1873, in Norwalk, Conn.
Butler, Thomas S
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1855, in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Chester county bar, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Butler, Walt H
congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1852, in Springboro, Pa. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Butler, William
congressman, was born in Columbia, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1841 to 1843.
Butler, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1879 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Butler, William
soldier, physician, state legislator, was born in 1759 in Prince William county, Pa. Soon after the war he was made a brigadier-general, and in 1796 major-general of militia. He was a member of the United States congress from 1801 to 1811. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of South Carolina, and for some years a member of the legislature; and in 1794 he was sheriff, and at one time magistrate. In the war of 1812 he commanded the South Carolina troops for state defense. He died Nov. 15, 1821, in Columbus, S. C.
Butler, William
missionary, author, was born in 1819 in Ireland. He is a methodist missionary, and the author of The Land of the Veda; From Boston to Bareilly and Back; and Mexico in Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and Religious Liberty.
Butler, William Allen
author, poet, was born Feb. 20, 1825, in Albany, N. Y. He is a lawyer of New York city, and has been president of the American bar association. He is well known as a writer of poetical satires, among which Nothing to Wear has long been famous.
Others are, Two Millions; General Average, a satire upon mercantile life; Barnum's Parnassus. His prose writings include Martin Van Buren, a Biography; Mrs. Limber's Raffle, an able attack on the morality of church fairs; Domesticus, a Story; Oberammergau; and The History of the Revision of the Statutes of New York.
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.
Butler, William O
soldier, public official, poet, was born in 1793 in Jessamine county, Ky. He enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812. He was elected a representative in congress from Kentucky in 1839, and re-elected in 1841. During the war with Mexico he obtained such distinction that he was promoted to the position of major-general in the regular army; and a sword was voted to him by congress. In 1848 he was the democratic candidate for vice-president, on the ticket with Lewis Cass for president. He was appointed governor of Nebraska territory, but declined the appointment. He was the author of many fugitive pieces of poetry, several of which possess common merit, and one, entitled The Boat Horn, attained great popularity. un-
Butler, Zebulon
soldier, was born in 1731 in Lyme, Conn. In 1769 he settled at Wyoming, Pa. In the early part of the revolutionary war he was a lieutenantcolonel in the Connecticut line, serving in New Jersey in 1777-78, and became colonel on March 13, 1778. On July 3, 1778, he commanded the weak garrison at Wyoming at the time of the massacre, which he was unable to prevent. He accompanied Sullivan in his Indian expedition in 1779, and served with distinction throughout the war. He died July 28, 1795, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
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.
Butt, Cyrus M
soldier, farmer, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Sept. 30, 1833, in Morgan county, Ohio. He served with distinction during the civil war; and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He is a prominent lawyer of Viroqua, Wis.; has been district attorney for six years; was state senator for two years; county judge for twelve years; and for the past fifteen years has been a member of the board of education. In 1892 he was the people's party candidate for governor of Wisconsin, and for congress in 1894. He has served as president of the farmers' alliance of Wisconsin since its organization, excepting the first term.
Butterfield, Charles Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born May, 1833, in Farmington, Maine. During the war of the rebellion he served under the commission of major and then lieutenant-colonel in an Indiana regiment. He has since held the office of judge of the Vanderburg county circuit court of that state, and of mayor of the city of Evansville.
BUTTERFIELD, CONSUL WILL- SHIRE, educator, author, was born July 28, 1824, in Mexico, N. Y. He is the author of History of Seneca County, Ohio; An Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky in 1782; The History and Biographical Annals of the University of Wisconsin; and History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet. He has edited the Washington-Crawford - Letters; the Washington-Irvine Correspondence; and A Short Biography of John Leith.
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, Daniel
soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Utica, N. Y. He became a merchant in New York city. He was colonel of the twelfth New York militia when the civil war began. Accompanying his regiment to Washington in July, 1861, he led the adinto Virginia over the Long Bridge, joined Gen. Patterson on the upper Potomac, and commanded a brigade. On the enlargement of the regular army, he was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel, and assigned to the twelfth infantry, May 14, 1861; appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861. vance
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.
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.