EDWARD EVERETT BUTTERFIELD BIOGRAPHY AS RECORDED IN: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
TOLLAND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND OF MANY PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS & CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. 811 EDWARD EVERETT BUTTERFIELD, who was born in Springfield, Mass., April 18, 1831, is a son of Jonas Butterfield, who was born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1790, and died in Springfield, Mass., Aug. 7, 1852. For forty years Jonas Butterfield was
connected with the Springfield armory, and was employed the most of that
long period in the filing department. In Springfield he cleared the pine
timber from a lot near the armory, and built him a home on East State street.
An old-line Whig, he never was an office seeker. In religion he was a
devoted and active member of the Congregational Church. In 1814 he was
married to Miss Anna McQuivey, of Springfield, a daughter of Solomon McQuivey.
To this union were born: Ann, Jeremiah Butterfield was the grandfather of Edward Everett. Edward Everett Butterfield received
his education in the public schools of his native town, and at sixteen years
of age became a newsboy on the train of the Boston and Albany Road, which
ran between Springfield and Worcester, making the trip four times a day.
After a year at this kind of work, he gave it up, and going to Ware, Mass.,
secured a position as stage driver on a line from West Bromfield, to Amherst,
Mass., making a trip of twenty-seven miles daily. This was before the day
of railroads, and he was engaged on Mr. Butterfield in 1886 set up in the wood business for himself, and furnished finished lumber, having a planing mill which is now operated by his two sons, who do custom work only. In this enterprise a large success crowned his industry. A steam planing-mill was put in operation when they rebuilt about 1889. Mr. Butterfield and his family were living in rooms over the First National Bank, when the memorable flood of 1877 poured down the valley, and swept away all their household effects. Mr. Butterfield belongs to Wolcott Lodge,
F.&A.M., of Stafford Hollow, of which he is now past master. He is
a charter member of Orient Chapter, No. 42, R.A.M., of Stafford. He is
a member of the Universalist Church at Stafford Hollow, where his wife also
finds her religious home. In politics he is a staunch Democrat, and for
twenty-six years was moderator at the town meeting. He has also been a
member of the board of burgesses, where he served on the committee on Roads.
Though he has been solicited to take Mr. Butterfield was married March 18, 1852, to Lura Foskitt. She was born Nov. 25, 1834, a daughter of Dwight and Lurancy (Nelson) Foskitt, of Wales, Mass., where her father was a farmer and a shoemaker. To this union were born: Clara J., born Jan. 15, 1853, who married Irving Grant, of Staffordville, and is now a widow, making her home with her father; Ella, born March 7, 1855, who died Oct. 28, of the same year; Charles Edward, born Oct. 1, 1856, who married Anna Clara Smith, a daughter of William Smith; Frank Dwight, born Oct. 28, 1861, who married Hattie Willis, and is now dead. Mr. Butterfield has a home on East street, where he and his family are very comfortably situated. Reproduced by: Linda D. Pingel great-great granddaughter of Cyrus White of Rockville, Ct. Biographies of Tolland County |