Butler, John (2)

a Baptist minister, was born in Nottingham, N. H., April 13, 1789. He was converted in his fourteenth year by the preaching of Rev. Thomas Paul, a distinguished minister of African descent, and after his baptism, Oct. 6,1806, became a member of the Church in Newbury and Newburyport, Mass. He was licensed to preach in April, 1809, and in 1810 was ordained pastor of the Church in Hanover, Mass. In 1824 he removed to Waterville, Me., where he established a school for young ladies, still continuing to preach. In May, 1825, he removed to Winthrop, where, besides carrying on. his school, he acted as pastor" of the Church for six years. He became pastor of the Church in North, Yarmouth, May 8, 1831, in which office he continued; until Oct. 15, 1835. On resigning, he accepted an appointment from the Maine Baptist Convention, and was in their service nearly two years. The ten subsequent years of his life were spent in doing the 'work of an evangelist. During this period he took an active part in eighteen revivals, in which it is estimated that about twelve hundred persons were converted. He died at Franklin, O., July 1, 1856. See Origin of the Church in Yarmouth, Me., p. 15,16. (J. C. S.)