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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Wytheville, Va. He was a justice of the peace; a major of the militia; and served six years in the state assembly; and eleven sessions to 1901 in the state senate. He was a county judge; was lieutenant-colonel of the thirteenth cavalry during the civil war; and was judge of the first judicial district of the state in 1865-67. In 1867-75 and 1887-89 he was a representative from Tennessee to the fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, fortythird ari fiftieth congresses as a republican, iae

died Aug. 19, 1903, in

Mountain

City,

Tenn.

Samson H., congressman, was born South Carolina. In 1839-42 he was a representative from South Carolina to the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh congresses. He died in South Carolina. Butler,

in

Butler, Scot, soldier, educator, college preswas born Feb. 9, 1844, in Indianapolis, Ind. He served in the civil war. In 186970 he was an instructor in the university of Indiana. Since 1891 he has been president of

ident,

Butler college. Butler, Simeon, publisher, manufacturer, author, was born in 1770. In 1793 he established the first publishing house in western Massachusetts at Northampton; and 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, soldier, was born in 1854 in Pennsylvania, in. 1776 he joined the aVmy, soon obtained a company, and was in almost every action in the middle states during the revolution. In 1797 he was ordered by President Washington to expel settlers from Indian lands in Tennessee; and made several treaties with the Indians while in that country. He died Sept. 7, 1805, in New Orleans, La. Butler, Thomas, congressman, was born in Carlisle, Pa. In 1818-21 he was a representative from Louisiana to the fifteenth and sixteenth congresses. He died Aug. 14, 1847 in Louisiana. Butlei, Thomas Ambrose, clergyman, author, poet, was born March 21, 1837, in Dublin, Ireland. He was engaged in missionary work in Kansas in 1867-75; and later was appointed pastor of St. James' church at St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of The Irish on the Prairies and Other Poems; and Kansas

and Irish Immigration.

Thomas

Belden, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was bom. Aug. 22, 1806, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a Connecticut jurist; and in 1856 published Philosophy of the Weather; which appeared later in enlarged form as a Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System. He served in the Connecticut state legislature; in 1849-51 he was a representative Butler,

to the thirty-first congress. 1873, in Norwalk, Conn.

He

519

died June

8,

Butler, Thomas Harvey, soldier, was born in Indiana. In 1862 he was captain in the

seventy-sixth regiment Indiana infantry; in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general

and

of volunteers.

Butler,

Thomas

lawyer, jurist, congress1855 in Chester counwas judge of the fifteenth judiS.,

man, was born Nov.

4,

ty. Pa. He cial district

of Pennsylvania for several years. In 1897-1911 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-fifth, fiftyseventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican.

Butler, Walt H., congressman, was bom Feb. 13, 1853, in Springboro, Pa. In 1891-93 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. Butler, William, soldier, physician, state was born in 1759 in Prince William county. Pa. Soon after the war he was made a brigadier-general; and in 1796 was made major-general of militia. In 1801-13 he was a United States senator. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of South Carolina; and for some years was a member of the state legislature. In the war of 1813 he commanded the South Carolina troops for state defense. He died Nov. 15, 1821, in Columbia, S.C. Butler, William, congressman, was bom in Columbia, S.C. In 1841-43 he was a representative to the twenty-seventh congress from South Carolina. He died in South Carolegislator,

lina.

Butler, William, lawyer, jurist, was bom Dec. 22, 1833 in Chester county. Pa. In 187999 he was United States district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Butler, William, missionary, author, was bom in 1818 in Ireland. He was 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. He died Aug. 15, 1899, in Old Orchard, Maine. Butler, William Allen, author, poet, was bom Feb. 30, 1825, in Albany, N.Y. He is a lawyer of New York City; and was president of the American bar association. He became well known as a writter of poetical satires,

among which Nothing to Wear has long been famous. Others are The

Two

Millions; General Average, a satire upon mercantile life and Barnum's Parnassus. He was also the author of 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