William Butcher was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng., March 3, 1829, came to Clarendon, Orleans County, in 1850, and afterwards to Elba, September 26, 1856, he married Eunice L. Van Dusen, of Elba. She was born in Byron. They have two children, viz.: Laura, born May 5, 1857, who married Thomas Barber; and Mattie A., born May 1, 1866. The family resides on road 16.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890