Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1818 - 1893

Biography

Butler, Benjamin Franklin (grandfather of Butler Ames) (R Mass.) Nov. 5, 1818-Jan. 11, 1893; House 1867-75, 1877-79; Gov. 1883-84 (Greenback & Democrat)) found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed January 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Butler, Benjamin Franklin; governor of Massachusetts, Civil War general, lawyer, legislator; born 05 November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire, United States; as a Union general, was considered a maverick by the Lincoln administration; issued his infamous "Order No. 28" (1862); was instrumental in reforming labor laws for factory workers in New England (1850s); managed the prosecution's case during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson (1868); was only one of two white men to show Frederick Douglass courtesy at the National Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia (1866); he and Douglass campaigned together (1872) on behalf of the incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant; died 11 January 1893 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

William H. Anderson papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School

Collection Identifier: Mss:831 1867-1907 A552

Overview:

This collection contains the papers of Lowell, Massachusetts lawyer William H. Anderson including notes and court documents pertaining to his client, the Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company, circa 1867-1907.