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Last name Butler
First name John
Display name John Butler
Birth date 1803
Death date 1887
Birth place New Jersey
Death place Ohio
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings, Upper Springfield Friends meeting
Bio notes At a Conference of Representatives of the Seven Yearly Meetings in 1869. John Butler, the son of Benjamin and Hannah of Columbiana County, was born in 1803 and was a member (and elder) of Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting in Ohio. He married Elizabeth Tatum in 1834. Met with President Lincoln in 1862 on the subject of conscientious objection. Aided freedmen in the South in 1864. He died in 1887 in his 85th year.

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New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook