Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — GEN. BUTTERFIELD, CIVIL WAR HERO, IS DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. BUTTERFIELD, CIVIL WAR HERO, IS DEAD.

Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who had been 111 for a year or more, died at his home in Cold Springs, N. Y., Wednesday night. Gen. Butterfield was born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1831, was graduated from Union college and served with distinction in the civil war. Resigning from the army, he became assistant United States treasurer In New York, and afterward organized and built a railway in Central America. In September, 1886, at St. Margaret’s Westminster, England,

he married Mrs. Julia L. James of New York, the bishop of Bedford and Canon Farrar performing the ceremony. He planned, organized and commanded tjie civic parade on the third day of the Washington centennial celebration in New York on May 1, 1889, the largest movement of civilians in a public demonstration known in modern history. He declined the Republican nomination for Congress in the Tenth congressional district of New York city in 1891.