Butterfield, George

Butterfield, George a Congregational minister, was born Sept. 5, 1810. He studied theology at the Bangor, Me., Seminary, and graduated from the Connecticut Theological Institute in 1838. He was ordained at Wilmington, Vt., in June, 1838; installed at Queechy in 1843, remaining there till 1845; was acting pastor at Randolph from 1845 to 1853; pastor at Eagle Point, Ill., from 1855 to 1860. He removed to Monticello, Ia.; and during the civil war he served three years in the Thirty-seventh Iowa Infantry. For two years he was engaged in mission work in York County, Neb. and spent the last seven years of his life in Monticello, where he died, July 15, 1872. See Alumni Records of Conn. Theol. Ins., p. 19. (J. C. S.)