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Rh of lines in the western states, converging at St. Louis. After the presidential election of 1852 he returned to journalism by the purchase of a half- interest in the Kochester daily '.' Union," which had been established in August of that year to support the Democratic candidates, Pierce and King. In 1857 the daily " Advertiser " was joined with the " Union," and Mr. Butts continued as edi- tor until December, 1864, when he permanently re- tired. About the beginning of this last period of editorial service there was a consolidation of tele- graphic lines and interests by the incorporation of the Western Union Telegraph Company, of which Mr. Butts was one of the organizers and for many years one of the managers. Mr. Butts never held any public position beyond acting as a delegate for his party in several state and national conven- tions. He was elected a delegate at large to the New York constitutional convention of 1866, but declined to serve. He was a man of marked talent, both natural and acquired. Possessed of an ana- lytical and logical mind, he was' a powerful con- troversialist ; and he has left brochures on finance, protection, free-trade, and other subjects, that are remarkable for originality and force. His volume on " Protection and Free-Trade," with a memoii', was published posthumously (New York, 1875).

BUXTON, Jarvis Barry, clergyman, b. in Newbern, N. C, 17 Jan., 1792; d. in Fayetteville, N. C, 'SO May, 1851, He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church at Elizabeth City, N. C, in 1827, and in 1831 he i-emoved to Fayette- ville and was rector there vintil his death, sustain- ing a high reputation for zeal and devotion, A memoir by his son. Rev, Jarvis Buxton, accom- panies a volume of his discourses (Raleigh, 1853),

BYERLY, William Elwood, mathematician, b, in Philadelphia, Pa., 13 Dec, 1849. He was gi-aduated at Harvard in 1871, was assistant pro- fessor of mathematics at Cornell university in 1873-6, was employed in the same capacity at Harvard in 1876-'81, and appointed full professor in 1881, He has published " Elements of Differen- tial Calculus " (Boston, 1879) ; " Elements of Inte- gral Calculus " (1881); syllabi of the Harvard courses in plane trigonometry, analytical geometry, equa- tions, and methods in analytic geometry,

BYFIELD, Nathaniel, jurist, b. in Long Ditten, Surrey, England, in 1653 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 6 June, 1733. Richard, his father, was one of the Westminster assembly divines, his mother a sister of Bishop Juxon. He arrived in Boston in 1764, became a merchant, and soon after King Philip's war one of the four proprietors and the principal settler of the town of Bristol, R. I. He returned to Boston in 1724. He was at one time speaker of the house of representatives, was for thirty-eight years judge of the court of common pleas in Bristol, and for two years in Suffolk co., for many years a member of the council, and judge of the vice-admiralty in 1704-'15 and in 1729. He pub- lished an " Account of the late Revolution in New England" (1689).

BYFORD, William Heath, physician, b. in Eaton, Preble co., Ohio, 20 March, 1817, He was graduated at the Ohio medical college in 1844, be- came professor of anatomy in Evansville medical college in 1850, and of the theory and practice of medicine in 1852. In 1857 he went to Chicago as professor of obstetrics in the Rush medical college, and in 1857 took the same chair in the Chicago medical college. In 1862 he became president and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in the Woman's medical college, Chicago, and in 1880 professor of gynaecology in Rush medical college. He has published " Chronic Inflammation of the Cervix" (Philadelphia, 1864); "Treatise on the Chronic Infiammation and Displacements of the Uterus" (1864; new ed., 1871); "Practice of Medi- cine and Surgery applied to Diseases of Women " (1865; revised ed., 1871) ; " Philosophy of Domestic Life " (Boston, 1868) ; and " Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Obstetrics" (New York, 1870).

BYINGTON, Cyrus, missionary, b, in Stock- bridge, Mass., 11 March, 1793; d. In Belpre, Ohio, 31 Dec, 1868. He studied theology at Andover, where he was graduated in 1819 ; and, after being for some months in the employ of the prudential committee of the American board of missions, was sent by them as a missionary to the ChoctaM^s, then in the southern states. He remained at the EHot station from 1821 till the Choctaws, by the treaty of 1830, were compelled to remove to the present Indian territory, and accompanied them thither, remaining at the new station, Stockbridge, till about 1866, when failing health compelled him to relinquish work, and he removed to Ohio. He pre- pared severjd religious books for the Indians, and translated p(irt inns of the Bible into their language.

BYLES, Mather, clergyman, b. in Boston, 15 March, 1707 ; d. there, 5 July, 1788. He was graduated at Harvard in 1725, ordained and took charge of the Congregational church in Hollls street, Boston, on 20 Dec, 1733. He was especially distinguished among his contemporaries for his wit and conversational powers. He possessed literary taste and solid learning, was a correspondent of Pope and Swift, and published a "Poem on the Death of George I." (1727), a "Poetical Epistle to Gov. Belcher on the Death of his Lady " (1736), and "Miscellaneous Poems" (1744). He had just claims to regard as a pulpit orator ; and his published sermons evince a fine imagination and great command of language, combined with terseness of expression. He maintained his loyalty during the troubled ante-revolutionary period in Boston, In August, 1776, at the age of seventy, his connection with his parish was dissolved on this account. The next year, in May, he was denounced in town-meet- ing as an enemy to the country, tried, and con- demned to imprisonment in a guard-ship, and to be sent with his family to England within forty days ; but this sentence was afterward commuted to confinement in his own house, from which he was soon released. He continued to reside in Bos- ton imtil his death, but held no pastoral charge from that time. His two daughters, the last of whom died in 1837, remained staunch loyalists to the end of their days. — His son, Mather, clergyman, b. 12 Jan., 1735 ; d. in St. John, New Brunswick, 12 March, 1814, was graduated at Harvard in 1751, ordained a Congregationalist minister, and for some time pastor of a church in New London, Conn. In 1768 he became an Episcopalian, and was called to Boston as rector of Christ church, which charge he held until the expulsion of the tories. A few years after St. John was founded by the expelled loyalists he became rector of the parish, which charge he held at the opening of Trinity church in 1791, and until his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Oxford.

BYLLYNGE, Edward, colonial proprietary, d. in England in 1687. He was associated with John Fenwicke in the purchase of a large tract of land in New Jersey, embracing, in general terms, all the province north of a line drawn from Barnegat to Burlington. The partners were Quakers, but had a falling out regarding the division of the property; and William Penn, being called upon to arbitrate, assigned nine tenths of the tract to Byllynge.