John Butler

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1803

Birth Place: New Jersey

Death Date: 1887

Death Place: Ohio

Affiliations: Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings , Society of Friends , Upper Springfield Friends meeting

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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