Butler, George W

Butler, George W.

a Baptist minister, was born in Hallowell, Me., April 12,1817, and united when quite young with the Church. Later in life he pursued a course of study, completing it at the New Hampton Institution. He was ordained at Stratford, N. H., in October, 1846, and spent seven years in laboring among the feeble churches in Coos County, N. H. Subsequently he was pastor three years in Tyngsboro, Mass., and then two years in Sutton, N. H., followed by one year in Hartford, N. Y. In May, 1857, he moved to Berlin Heights, 0., where, after laboring very earnestly for a little more than a year, he died, Sept. 15, 1858. (J. C. S.)