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Maine Baptist conference and of the western examination committee of the Maine branch of the Northeastern Baptist Educational So- ciety. In 1832 he was appointed president of the Cumberland Baptist American Foreign Missionary Society. On July 25, 1832, Water- ville College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He made numerous ad- dresses at different points in Maine upon the subjects of temperance, and conducted many revival meetings at various points in the south- ern portion of the state. He died July I, 1856, at. Franklin, Ohio. He married, May 31, 18II, at Hanover, Massachusetts, Nancy Payne, daughter of Richard and Jane ( Board- man) Payne, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. She was born April 6, 1788, the eldest of six daughters, and was left an orphan at the age of eighteen years, having the care of her younger sisters. She died April 10, 1857, in Franklin, Ohio. Her father, Richard Payne, was born 1764 and died in Amesbury in 1799 of yellow fever. His wife was born 1769 in Newbury, daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Noyes) Boardman, natives respectively of Chelsea and Newburyport, Massachusetts. The first nine of Rev. John Butler's fourteen children were born in Hanover and the tenth in Ipswich, Massachusetts; they were: John Richard, Almira, Esteria, Anne Judson, Abi- gail, Sarah, Charles, Elizabeth Lewis, Han- nah Heard and Nathaniel. In East Winthrop were born : John Payne, Mary Simons, Sophia B. and Maria S. (twins). Both parents died at the home of their son in Franklin, Ohio. One who knew them in their old age speaks of Rev. John Butler as follows: "A lovely Christian gentleman, with sadness in his eyes and lines in his face as of one whom life had brought many sorrows and disappointments." And his wife as. a "woman of strong char- acter and great capabilities. She had per- formed the varied and trying duties of a minister's wife, and reared a large family of sons and daughters, and seen them one by one go out from the old home to enter a larger world, and now with strength failing, she had laid down the burdens and active duties of life, and was content to leave them in other hands, and with sweet patience and resignation was looking forward to the end of a long and useful life."
(IV) Rev. Nathaniel, third son of Rev. John (3) and Nancy (Payne) Butler, was born October 19, 1824, in Waterville, Maine, and fitted for college at Yarmouth Academy. For three years he was a student at George- town College, Kentucky, and subsequently en-
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tered Waterville (now Colby) College, Maine, where he was graduated in 1842. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Tur- ner, Maine, October 28, 1845. Five years later he was appointed agent for the Ameri- can Baptist Missionary Union of Maine and Eastern Massachusetts. From 1852 to 1855 he was pastor of the church at Eastport, Maine, and in the first five months of 1853 one hun- dred and fifteen new members were added to the church. He retired from this pastorate in 1855 to become secretary to the Baptist So- ciety of Philadelphia. From January, 1856, to October, 1859, he was pastor in Rockland, Maine, and became pastor at Auburn in 1860. In 1865 he was located at Camden, Maine, and in 1869 at Alton, Illinois. In 1872 he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and from 1873 to 1876 was pastor of the Second Baptist Church at Bangor, Maine. For short periods he filled pastorates at Dexter, North Vassal- borough and Hallowell. In 1881 he became associated with the Bodwell Granite Company, through the influence of a parishioner and per- sonal friend, Mr. Bodwell, of Hallowell. From 1861 to 1865 he was private secretary to Han- nibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United States. For many years following 1865 he was a trustee of Colby College, which con- ferred upon him in 1873 the degree of Doc- tor of Divinity. He was the author of numer- ous hymns published in a volume entitled "Baptist Hymn Writers and their Hymns." In 1880 he was a member of the Maine legis- lature. He died April 25, 1894, in Burlington, Wisconsin. His memorable sermon at the funeral of his classmate and friend, Major- General Hiram G. Berry, of Rockland, is spoken of as a notable address ; also his speech at the unveiling of the statue of General Berry, and an address in memory of Rev. Na- thaniel Milton Wood, an associate in the Bap- tist ministry. He married, December 19, 1849, Jennette Loring Emery, of Paris, Maine, the eldest daughter of Hon. Stephen Emery and his second wife Jennette (Loring) Emery. Mrs. Butler was born May 16, 1828, at Paris Hill, Maine, where she resided until her mar- riage. She attended school in Gorham and studied music in Portland. Like all of her family she was passionately fond of music, possessed a kind sense of humor and was fond of the best reading. "She was an ideal pas- tor's wife, of a quiet, modest and refined dis- position and of a singularly winning character which won hosts of friends wherever she went." She survived her husband more than
eight years, being a confined invalid during her last twenty years, and died September 18, 1902, at Augusta, Maine. Her children were : Jeannie, who became the wife of George Wood; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Ellen and Anna ; the last named married Sidney S. Em- ery, of Malden, Massachusetts.
(V) Nathaniel (2), only son of Nathan- iel (I) and Jennette L. (Emery) Butler, was born May 22, 1853, in Eastport, and received excellent educational advantages. He received the degree of A. B. from Colby University in 1873, and for the succeeding three years was associate principal of Feny Hall Female Col- lege, Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1876 Colby University conferred upon him the degree of A. M., in 1895 that of D. D. and in 1903 LL. D. He was associate principal of High- land Hall College for Women at Highland Park, Illinois, from 1876 to 1879, and master of Yale School for boys in Chicago for the next two years. He was again principal of Highland Hall College, 1880-84, and was or- dained in 1884 to the Baptist ministry, at Highland Park, Illinois. He became profes- sor of rhetoric and English literature in the old University of Chicago in 1884, continuing two years. He was professor of Latin in the University of Illinois, 1886-89, and professor of English language and literature in the same institution for the next three years. He was acting director of the university extension di- vision of the University of Chicago in 1893- 94; delegate of the University of Chicago to the World's Congress on University Exten- sion, London, England, 1894; university ex- tension associate professor of English liter- ature, and director of the university exten- sion division of the same institution, 1894- 95. From 1895 to 1901 he was president of Colby College at Waterville, Maine, and since 1901 has been professor of education and di- rector of co-operative work of the University of Chicago. Since 1905 he has been dean of the college of that institution. Professor Butler married (first) April 28, 1881, Florence Sheppard, born July 9, 1861, died June 21, 1902. Three sons were born of this mar- riage: Sheppard Emery, July, 1883; Albert Nathaniel, January,. 1888; Frederic Hamlin, August, 1892. Married (second) December 21, 1903, Lillian M. Googins, born Decem- ber 3, 1876. Of this marriage there was born Jeanette, January 25, 1909.
Jeanette L. (Emery) Butler, wife of Na- thaniel (I) Butler, and mother of Nathaniel (2) Butler, was a descendant of John Emery (I)
Nathaniel Buster
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through John (2), John (3), John (4), Lieu- tenant John (5), Moses (6), Moses (7), all mentioned elsewhere, and
(8) Stephen, third and youngest son of Moses (2) and Ruth (Bodwell) Emery, was born April 29, 1790, and died in 1863. Much against the will of his father he fitted for col- lege, and by dint of hard work and untiring energy was enabled to graduate from Bow- doin College in 1814; while reciting in college he taught school in the daytime, at the acad- emy at Hallowell, and taught singing school as well. He then taught a year at Portland, Maine, and studied law at this time whenever he could find spare time. He had the good fortune to study law with Governors Parris and Lincoln. Governor Parris was a man of fine character, and was a strong advocate of temperance : Stephen Emery was one of the pioneer temperance workers of the state of Maine. and was an able and enthusiastic worker and speaker in its cause. In June, 1819, he was admitted to the bar, and settled at Paris, Maine; at first he had his office in his house, and helped out his income by teach- ing a school which was located over a store. Soon after this he went to Columbia, Wash- ington county, Maine, but returned to Paris a year later, and continued his residence at that place until his retirement from practice. He was attorney general of Maine under Gov- ernor Fairchild, and chairman of the state board of education, and under Governor Hub- bard served as district judge until the court was abolished by act of the legislature. He was a man of high character, and recognized by all who knew him as upright and honor- able, a man of scholarly and gentlemanly hab- its. He was very fond of music, and by his devotion to it in his younger days, when he was studiously preparing for his admission to the bar, he jeopardized his health and never became physically strong afterwards. His ca- reer was markedly successful, and he was honored by the most prominent men of the state. He married, January 15, 1815, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Stowell, one of the early settlers of Paris, Maine, born March 26, 1792, died November 18, 1822, and they had three children : Sarah Jane, who married Hon. Han- nibal Hamlin, and died April 17, 1855 ; George Freeman, born November 10, 1817, also a lawyer, married Eliza Appleton; and Stephen, born in 1820, died in infancy. Hon. Stephen Emery married (second) February 7, 1825, Jennette, daughter of John and Jennette (Bar- rell) Loring, of Buckfield, born July 25, 1800,
died September 29, 1858, and had three chil- dren : Jennette ; Ellen Vesta, born September 14, 1835, married Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, after the death of her sister; and Stephen Al- bert, born October 14, 1841, professor of mu- sic in New England Conservatory at Boston, one of the foremost teachers in the country of the science of harmony.
(9) Jennette, daughter of Hon. Stephen and Jennette (Loring) Emery, was born May 16, 1828, and married, December 19, 1849, Rev. Nathaniel (2) Butler (see Butler IV).
The name of Butler is well- BUTLER known in New England, and several progenitors of large families bearing the name were early found in New England. Researches in Great Britain claim the descent from the famous Duke of Ormond, who was lord lieutenant of Ireland. His descendants are numerous in various por- tions of Great Britain. No definite connec- tion between this family and those found in America has been established, but it is a reasonable supposition that they came of this well-known stock. The family found in this country has been identified with the leading moral, educational and business interests of the country, and is still so known.
(I) James Butler was in Lancaster, Massa- chusetts, as early as 1663. He received lands in the distribution among proprietors, his home being known as No. 39. According to the proprietor's records, he owned five lots consisting of two hundred and sixty-eight acres in Lancaster at the first settlement. In 1664 the town of Lancaster gave "libertie to James Butler to have a Rode of upland, in breadth to set a fence on at the side of the seven acres of Intervale which he bought of Goodman Joslin." In the same year he re- ceived from Rebecca Joslin, widow of Thom- as, certain land east of Still river, Lancaster, recorded 1666, and there his son James lived after the massacre. When the town was abandoned he removed to Woburn and soon after that to Billerica, Massachusetts, where he died March 20, 1681. The Lancaster rec- ords say he died on the 19th. He was taxed in Billerica in 1679, and the oldest record back, in that town, has the following : "20 day 01 1681 James Butler, Irishman, dyed." He had a wife Mary who was mar- ried March 9, 1682, to John Hines. She was the administratrix of James Butler's estate and their children were: James, who lived upon the parental homestead in Lancaster. John,
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mentioned at length in the next paragraph. Mary, born July 11, 1679. Elinor, September 3, 1681, in Billerica.
(II) John, second son of James and Mary Butler, was born July 22, 1677, in Woburn, and lived in that town until 1721, when he removed to that part of the ancient town of Dunstable, now Pelham, New Hampshire, where he died 1756. When he built his house he wished it to remain as long as the tim- bers would hold together, as a monument to his posterity of the "courage, perseverance and endurance of the pioneers of the wilder- ness." The house itself was built of pine logs, hewn and locked or dovetailed at the corners, and around the same he dug a ditch, which was provided with a drawbridge to be let down during the day and drawn up at night. He also provided portholes, through which they might shoot Indians who might prowl around and attack them. This house lasted eighty years, and was used by two generations after him. He was town clerk and selectman, and was styled deacon. His descendants were noted for their honesty, also for being strong and hardy. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pierce) Wilson, of Woburn, born January 28, 1683, and buried beside her husband in Pelham. Their chil- dren, all born in Woburn, were: Elizabeth, John, Samuel, Sarah, died young, Joseph, Phebe, Abigail and Sarah.
(III) Lieutenant Joseph, third son of Deacon John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Butler, was born December 1, 1713, in Woburn, and died in Pelham, New Hampshire, aged nearly one hundred years. He owned a large amount of land in the northwest corner of Pelham and in Nottingham West. He built mills called Butler's Mills, his homestead being op- posite his mills, the common lying between. He married (first) Abigail Nourse, (second) Hannah Gragg, and (third) November 30, 1754, Mary Ladd, of Haverhill, Massachu- setts. His children were: Abigail, Nehemiah, Gideon, Molly, Jesse, Dr. Thaddeus, Hannah, James and Dr. Elijah.
(III) Jacob, fourth son of Deacon John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Butler, was born No- vember 10, 1718, in Woburn, and was about three years of age when the family removed to what is now Pelham. He married Mary Eames and they were the parents of Jacob, Daniel, Mary, Jonathan, died young, Phebe and Jonathan.
(IV) Abigail, first child of Lieutenant Jo- seph and Abigail (Nourse) Butler, was born about 1738, in Pelham, New Hampshire. She
married Joseph Wilson, of Dracut, Massachu- setts, and they were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Joseph, Benjamin (died young), Thaddeus, Nabby, Lydia; Life, David, Polly, Huldah, Benjamin and Cyrus.
(IV) Daniel, second son of Jacob and Mary (Eames) Butler, was born October 23, 1748. He married Molly Tenney and had children as follows: Dole, married Delilah Butler ; Polly, married Daniel Varnum; Phebe, died young ; Nabby, married Jacob Butler ; Daniel ; Phebe, married Amos Hazelton; Manly, mar- ried Sarah Hamblett; Betty, died young ; Betty (2nd), died young; Olivia, married Noyes Tenney ; Belinda, married Samuel P. Hadley; Thomas J. and Joseph B. (twins), who died young.
(V) Manly, seventh child and third son of Daniel and Molly (Tenney) Butler, was born at Pelham, New Hampshire, March 25, 1792. He married, April 1, 1817, Sarah, daughter of David and Sarah (Wyman) Hamblet, and their children were: I. Manly Orville, born July 19, 1812. 2. Sarah Carsina, August 29, 1813, died December 30, 1813. 3. David Hamblet, September 12, 1814, married (first) Eliza Trull, and (second) Susan Cutler. 4. Daniel Jefferson, February 17, 1817, died January 5, 1827. 5. George Washington, De- cember 22, 1818, died October 25, 1822. 6. Charles Varnum, June 25, 1820, married Laura Jewett, of New London, New Hampshire. 7. Sarah Carsina, February 21, 1822, married William Henry Rook, of London, England. 8. Louisa Marie, July 3, 1823, married Stephen Sawyer, of Saco, Maine. 9. Mary Tenney, July 14, 1828, married John Trowbridge, of Detroit, Michigan. 10. Catherine Augusta, July 17, 1830, married Daniel Webster, of Boston; she died December 26, 1872. II. Daniel George, December 15, 1831, died Au- gust 6, 1833. 12. Phebe Ann, February 10, 1833, married Austin Waite Perry, of Upton, Massachusetts. 13. Henry Clay, December 26, 1835, died January 13, 1838. The first two children were born at Lyndsboro, New Hamp- shire, the third at Pembroke, New Hampshire, and the others at Pelham, New Hampshire.
(VI) Manly Orville, eldest child of Manly and Sarah (Hamblet) Butler, was born July 19, 1812, died in 1902. He was then engaged in the retail grocery business. He married (first) March 17, 1836, at Boston, Massachu- setts, Elizabeth Howe; she was born in 1815 at Kittery, Maine, and died in 1869, at Charles- town, Massachusetts. He married (second) June 24, 1870, Julia Mendum. He had eight children, all by first wife, as follows: I. Or-
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ville Washington, born February 22, 1837, see forward. 2. George Henry, December I, 1839, see forward. 3. Arthur Caverbo, 1842, died March 24, 1844. 4. Charles Hamblet, April 30, 1845, see forward. 5. Frank Fair- field, February 4, 1848, died unmarried May 24, 1875. 6. Sarah Elizabeth, February 29, 1852, married John Henry Wilson, and had no children; she died October 20, 1906. 7. Edward Burgess, December 16, 1853, see for- ward. 8. Olivia Annette, November 13, 1857, married Charles C. Lloyd, of Cleveland, Ohio. The first two children were born at Charles- town, the third, fourth and fifth at Rox- bury, Massachusetts, and the last three at Lewiston, Maine.
(VII) Orville Washington, eldest child of Manly Orville and Elizabeth (Howe) Butler, was born February 22, 1837, at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He married, February 20, 1879, Edith M. Estes, of Sandwich, and they had three children: I. Frank Orville, born January 25, 1880, graduated from Harvard College in 1903. 2. Elva Lena, September 7, 1882. 3. Charles Edward, May 22, 1884, died October 12, 1884.
(VII) George Henry, second son of Manly Orville and Elizabeth (Howe) Butler, was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, December I, 1839, and died March 5, 1880. He mar- ried Harriet Winn, September 3, 1866, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and among their eight children were: Alice Hays, born July 20, 1867, died July 15, 1869. George Manly, January 26, 1870; he graduated from Amherst College in 1896, and entered Yale Theological School the same year.
(VII) Charles Hamblet, fourth son and child of Manly Orville and Elizabeth (Howe) Butler, was born April 30, 1845, died in Sep- tember, 1889. He married Adelaide L. Col- lins, February 4, 1868, and they had one child, Charles Lloyd, who died in June, 1895. They adopted a child, Edward K.
and was therefore very wide in the range of articles covered. As the enterprise grew and flourished, they enlarged the business by open- ing branches in other cities, and are now carrying on very large wholesale general mer- chandise houses in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis, besides having sample houses in Baltimore, Dallas, Omaha, San Fran- cisco and Seattle. In 1887 this business was incorporated and is now the largest establish- ment of its kind in America. Edward B. But- ler is its president, and the only one living of the original firm. He is one of the most progressive citizens of Chicago and is well known for his public spirit, having served as director of many institutions. In 1892 he was appointed chairman of the ways and means committee, and also of the department of ad- missions and collections of the World's Colum- bian Exposition at Chicago. For many years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Illinois Manual Training School Farm at Glenwood, Illinois, and has also been trus- tee of Hull House Social Settlement of Chi- cago, of the Chicago Orphan Asylum, The Girls' Refuge and the First State Pawner's Society of Chicago. He has sustained the same relation to Rockford College, the Bu- reau of Associated Charities of Chicago, and is now chairman of the committees on Lake Shore Parks of that city. He is a director of the Corn Exchange Bank of Chicago, and is widely known in commercial and financial circles throughout the country. He is identi- fied with many clubs, including the University Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, Union League, City, South Shore, Midlothian and Commercial, being the ex-president of the last named. He is a trustee of the Central Church, of which Dr. Gunsaulus is the minister. Mr. Butler was married in 1880 at Norwalk, Connecticut, to Jane, daughter of William Henry and Esther (Pratt) Holley.
(VII) Edward Burgess, sixth son of Manly Orville and Elizabeth (Howe) Butler, was BUTLER The Butler family was early identified with the settlement of what is now Maine, and has continuously borne an active part in the de- velopment of its resources and the progress of its intellectual and moral interests. It has always been prominent in large financial opera- tions down to the present time, and its mem- bers have been respected for upright char- acter and conscientious devotion to duty. born December 16, 1853, in Lewiston, Maine, and received his education in the public schools of Boston, in which city he was employed after leaving school by a wholesale drygoods firm. After several years of experience in this es- tablishment and having become thoroughly ac- quainted with the business, he became asso- ciated with his elder brother, George H. But- ler, in founding the firm of Butler Brothers, (I) The first of record in this country was doubtedly in England, and of the ancient stock of Ormond. He appears in Berwick, now at Boston. One year later they were joined , Thomas Butler, who was born about 1674, un- by another brother, Charles H. Their busi- ness was that of supplying department stores,
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Maine, in 1695, when he witnessed a deed, and was married there about 1697 to Eliza- beth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ab- bott, and granddaughter of Walter Abbott, a pioneer settler of that region. He must have been better educated than the mass of early residents of the colony, as shown by the fact that he was appointed in 1716 to teach the local school until some other who could teach Latin could be secured, and continued as its head nearly a year. A leading citizen, he was prominent in the management of town affairs for a quarter of a century, and was selectman and surveyor of lands at the same time he was teacher. He was possessed of means, as well as education, and was the intimate friend of such distinguished citizens as Governor Wentworth, Sir William Pepperell, Hon. John Hill, Captain Ichabod Plaistow, and others. On May 24, 1699, he was granted twenty-one acres of land by the town of Kittery, at what is now South Berwick, but did not live on it. Soon after he purchased a large tract east of what is now South Berwick, on which he built a large and handsome residence, at the foot of Butler's Hill. The village of South Ber- wick now occupies part of this tract, which also embraced the academy grounds, Butler's Hill and lands until recently occupied by his descendants. Here he exercised a generous hospitality, his house being a double, two- story structure, and here he passed the re- mainder of his life. Beside being a large landholder, he was a proprietor of mills at Quamphegan. In 1720 he served on a com- mittee to settle disputes about land boundaries between Kittery and Berwick. Although the latter town became a separate parish in 1701, it was not incorporated as a town until 1715; at the first town meeting, held March 22, 1715, he was chosen a selectman, and the next year was a grand juror, in addition to the offices previously mentioned. With the exception of the years 1717-18 and 1722, he continued to serve as selectman until 1727. From 1713 to 1736 he was surveyor of lands, and was suc- ceeded by his sons, and his parchment records of surveys were preserved until recently by a great-grandson. They were loaned to aid in the settlement of a land boundary and never returned. He was elected to office more than thirty-five times, and last appears in the rec- ords in 1736, when he was serving in official capacity. He became a member of the church September 2, 1727, but was active in its sup- port long before that, having served on a com- . mittee to deal with a minister, and gave of time and money for the promotion of schools
and the improvement of the river. In 1730-31 he was one of a few citizens to advance money to secure a representative of the colony at the court of Great Britain. No record appears of his death. His wife died December 2, 1728. Children : Thomas, Elizabeth, Moses, Abigail and Love.
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