Note 78 — REMINISCENCES OF VILLAGE LIFE AND OF PANAMA AND CALIFORNIA. 1840-1850.

John Butler was born in 1804 in Connecticut and came to Unadilla when a young man. At the time of his death, Dr. Halsey wrote a sketch in which he said Mr. Butler, in that “dense forest, rolled up a rude log cabin and started to hew himself out a farm which became one of the handsomest hill farms in the town.”