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Benjamin F. Butler

Banker

Centurion, 1868–1884

Full Name Benjamin Franklin Butler

Born 9 January 1830 in Albany, New York

Died 11 December 1884 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Willard Parker and Robert Gordon

Elected 1 February 1868 at age thirty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Brother of William Allen Butler; father of Charles Butler and Willard Parker Butler; nephew of Charles Butler; brother-in-law of Willard Parker Jr.; son-in-law of Willard Parker; uncle of Edmund Dwight

Proposer of:

Century Memorial

The names of those we have lost in 1884 are, in the order of their decease: Edward M. Archibald, B. H. Hutton, John J. Cisco, Augustus Schell, Willard Parker, Joseph S. Bosworth, Augustus E. Silliman, Gouverneur M. Ogden, Freeman J. Fithian, Robert Hoe, Isaac Newton, Frank E. Kernochan, Henry T. Anthony, Francis C. Bowman, Samuel H. Shreve, Benjamin F. Butler, D. Lydig Suydam, Charles Buckingham, and Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck.

It is not by their number alone that these vacant places are conspicuous; for many among them recall the thought of honored character—the associations of dear companionship enjoyed—the memories of faithful service rendered.

Augustus R. Macdonough
1885 Century Association Reports