Buttler, Charles Voorhees – Byrum, Almon Coe
Buttler, Charles Voorhees
physician, was born Jan. 18, 1869, in New Brunswick, N. J. He located in Norwich, Conn., and successfully practiced his profession.
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.
Buttz, Charles Wilson
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1837, in Stroudsburg, Pa. He entered the union army in 1861 as second lieutenant, and rose to the rank of brevet major; and in 1863 resigned because of ill-health. He engaged in the practice of law at Norfolk, Va.; and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1864. In 1872 he was elected solicitor of the first judicial circuit of South Carolina for the term of four years; and was elected to fill the vacancy in the fortyfourth congress.
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, Isaac Wingerd
educator, lawyer, was born Dec. 16, 1868, in Chambersburg, Pa. He graduated with honors from the Princeton university, N. J.; and during 1893-94 was professor of mathematics in the Princeton college, Ky. He has served as city attorney of Iron River, Mich.; and as circuit court commissioner of Iron county.
Byers, Samuel Hawkins Mar- Shall
diplomat, author, poet, was born July 23, 1838, in Pulaski, Pa. He was a United States consul at Zurich, subsequently a consulgeneral to Italy, and now a resident of Des Moines. He was the author of Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss: Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; and The Happy Isles, and Other Poems. He is the author of the popular poem entitled Sherman's March to the Sea.
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.
Byington, Horace W
capitalist, was born in December, 1828, in Plymouth, Conn. Since 1849 he has been a resident of California; has been a successful business man of Santa Rosa; and is now a retired capitalist. He has been mayor of Santa Rosa; collector of internal revenue under President Harrison's administration; and was a delegate to the republican national convention held in Chicago in 1888.
Byles, Charles N
banker, public official, was born March 20, 1844, in Louisville, Ky. He is the president of the bank of Montesana, Washington; and has been auditor and treasurer of his county.
Byles, Mather
clergyman, author, was born March 15, 1707, in Boston, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, famous both as preacher and wit.
After forty-three years' ministry in the Hollis Street church, his tory sympathies obliged him to give up his charge in 1776.
He died July 5, 1788, in Boston, Mass.
Bynner, Edwin Lassetter
author, was born in 1842, in New York. His best work is included in the three historical tales, Agnes Surriage; The Begum's Daughter; and Zachary Phips. Of lesser importance are Nimport; Tritons; Damen's Ghost; Penelope's Suitors; and The Chase of the Meteor, a book for boys.
He died in 1893.
Bynum, J. H. T
lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 1, 1856, in North county, Ga. He is a successful lawyer of Live Oak, Fla.; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Florida state senate.
Bynum, Jesse A
state legislator, congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. He served a number of years in the state legislature; and was a member of congress from North Carolina from 1833 to 1841. While in congress he fought a duel with Daniel Jenifer, which terminated harmlessly.
Bynum, William Dallas
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born June 26, 1846, in Newberry, Ind. In 1871-75 he was city attorney of Washington, Ind.; its mayor during 1875-79; and in 1876 he was a democratic elector. He subsequently moved to Indianapolis; was a member of the state legislature in 1882; and elected speaker of the house at the beginning of the session of 1883. He was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty second, and fifty-third congresses as a democrat; and took an active part in important measures. He was instrumental in the organization of the democratic sound money movement.
Byrd, Charles W
jurist, was born in Virginia. In 1803 he was appointed United States judge for the district of Ohio.
Byrd, William
author, was born March 16, 1674, in Westover, Va. He was a colonial Virginian and man of letters, whose journals, first published in 1841, are known as The Westover Manuscripts, from Westover, the family mansion of Byrd. A fuller collection, styled The Byrd Manuscripts, was printed in 1866, edited by T. Wynne. They are well worth reading for their wit, keen observations, and vigorous style. They comprise The Story of the Dividing Line, an account of the expedition to fix the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina; A Progress to the Mines; and A Journey to the Land of Eden. He died Aug. 26, 1744, in Westover, Va.
Byrde, Edward C
journalist, was born July 10, 1874, in Litchfield, Minn.
He is the editor and owner of the Spink County Chronicle of Redfield, S. D.
Byrn, Marcus Lafayette
physician, author. He is the author of Complete Practical plete Practical Brewer; Rattlehead's Travels, or the Recollections of a Backwoodsman; Complete Practical Distiller; Repository of Wit and Humor; Book of Nature, an expositor of the Science of Life and Sexual Physiology; and Family Physician.
Byrne, John
railroad president, was born in Maryland. He is the president of the Central New York and Western railroad.
Byrne, William
soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 10, 1838, in Ireland. He served in the civil war as a confederate; in 1880 he moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where he was engaged in the mercantile business; and also invested largely in phosphate lands, city lots and business blocks. He improves his city property, and has been one of the foremost citizens of Jacksonville in building and beautifying the city.
Byrns, Sam
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 4, 1848, in Jefferson county, Mo. He was elected in 1876 a member of the twenty-ninth general assembly to represent Jefferson county; was elected state senator for the twenty-sixth senatorial district in 1878; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Byrum, Almon Coe
lawyer, jurist, was born March 31, 1861, in Jo Daviess county, Ill. He has attained success as a lawyer of Onida, S. D.; and served with distinction as judge of the county court.