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TJie Story of the Notable Prai/ers of Christian History (1880); Youitg Folks' History of America (1881); Yoiiug Folks' History of Boston (1883); The Great Composers (1884, rev. and enl.. 189-1): Poems for Christmas, Easter end New Year (1884); Wonderful C'hristmases, of Old (1885); Ballads and Stoi'ies for Readings, trith Musical Accompaniments for Public Entertain- ments (1886); Songs of History (1887); TJie Story of the Tunes (1890): The Log Schoolhouse on the Columbia (1890): In the Boyhood of Lincoln (1892); Little Arthur's History of Rome, from the Golden Age to Constantine (\S92): The Parson's Miracle, and Jhf Grandmother's Grandmother's Christ- inas Candle (1894); The Patriot Schoolmaster (1894); In Old New England: the Romance of a Colonial Fire-side (1895); The Knight of Liberty: A Tale of the Fortunes of LaFay- ette (1895); The Wamjoum Belt (1896); and Zig-Zag Journeys in all parts of the world, in fifteen volumes, from 1880 to 1894. Of the Zig-Zag Journeys more than five liundred tliou- sand volumes were sold. He also wrote libret- tos for several successful cantatas, includ- ing Under the Palms, Faith, and Faith Tri- vmphant.

BUTTRE, John Chester, engraver, was born at Auburn, N.Y., June 10, 1821. He received an academical education, studied portrait-paint- ing, but abandoned it for wood-engraving, and removed to New York city in 1841, where he later applied himself wholly to engraving on steel. A unique method in the treatment of portraits by which he secured life-like ex- pression brought him into prominence, and after his notable engraving of President Buchanan many orders came to him unsolicited. He ex- ecuted a fine portrait of Lincoln, and a full length of Martha Washington. His work was in great demand for standard illustrated pub- lications. He engraved a number of large plates for popular sale, notablj' Only a Little Book, Welcome Home. The First Step, Tlie Empty Sleeve. The Old Oaken Bucket, and Prayer in Camp. His last engraving was a vignette of Grant, published after the gen- eral's death. He also published the American Art Gallery in 3 vols., containing the portraits of two hundred and fifty eminent persons in the United States, with letter-press by his daughter Lillian C. Buttre. He possessed a very large collection of steel-engraved portraits, daguerreotypes and photographs. He died at Ridgewood. N. J.. Dec. 2, 1893.

BUTTS, Isaac, journalist, was born in Wash- ington, Dutchess count}', N. Y., Jan. 11, 1816. He removed with his parents in early life to Rochester, where he obtained an ordinary edu- cation. He purchased and edited the Rochester

Advertiser, 1845-'64, and consolidated the Union with the Advertiser in 1856. wherein he supported Democratic principles, and the principle in re- gard to slavery in acquired territory which V)e- came known as " Popular Sovereignty." He was a member of the House printing telegraph com- pany and of the New Y'ork and Mississippi Valley printing telegraph company, and an organizer and director of the Western Union telegraph com- pany, into which the two companies were merged. He published Brief Reasons for Rejmdiation, Applicable to the War Debts of all Countries (1869). His Protection and Free Trade: an In- quiry U'hether Protective Duties can Benefit the Interests of a Country in the Aggregate, was pub- lished posthumously (1875), and contains a brief memoir by the editor. He died in Rochester, N.Y.. Nov. 20. 1874.

BUTTZ, Henry Anson, educator, was born at Middle Smithfield, Pa., April 18, 1835. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1858. He took a course in tlieology at the New Brunswick seminary, and was admit- ted to the ministrj' in the Newark conference of tiie Methodist Episcopal church, where he fulfilled appointments in a number of cities until 1870. He was tutor and adjunct professor of Greek and Hebrew in Drew theological seminary. lS68-*70; Cobb professor of New Testament Greek and ex- egesis, 1870-'80, and elected president of Drew theological seminary in 1880. Weslej-an uni- versity conferred on him the A.M. degree in 1866, and the College of New Jersey made him A.M. m 1861 and D.D. in 1875. From 1876 to 1879 he editeel the epistles to the Romans, in Greek (a comparison of texts). He has also publislied a remarkably fine edition of the Greek Testament.

BYERS, Samuel Hawkins Marshall, author, was born in Pulaski, Pa., July 23, 1838, son of James M. Byers. He was educated in the public schools of Oskaloosa, Iowa: studied law, and in 1861 enlisted as a private. He was imprisoned at Columbia, S.C, after the battle of Cliat- tanooga, and there wrote Sherman's March to the Sea. He escaped and was attaclied to Sher- man's staff. He became adjutant of the 5th Iowa volunteers in 1863, and was brevetted major in 1865. He was U. S. consul at Zurich 1869-'84; consul-general in Italy, 1885, and in Switzerland 1891-93. He is the autlior of: " TIte Happy I.^les" (poems 1885): Sicitzerlavd and the Swiss (1886): Sixteen Months in a Rebel I'^-i- son. a Diary (1886); Iowa in War Times (1888); The March to the Sea (1897); Recol- lections of a Con.fnl (1899).

BYFIELD, Nathaniel, juri.st, was born in Long Ditton. Surrey, England, in 1653: son of Richard Byfield, a Westminster assembly divine. He emigrated to America in 1664, settling in