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STEPHEN BREWER BUTLER, the son of Jonathan Hunt Butler and his wife, Mary Ann
Bowers, was born January 22, 1843, at Northampton, Massachusetts. He died May 27, 1866,
unmarried. Butler was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity and of the 'Technian Literary
Society.
A few weeks after graduation Butler went to Philadelphia and entered into business in
the book publishing firm of E. H. Butler and Company. In his report to the Class Secretary,
in 1865, Butler writes of a severe illness of a complicated type. This so lowered his vitality
that a rapid decline succeeded a severe cold with which he was attacked in the early part
of the following winter. He died at his home in Northampton on the 27th of May, 1866.
A Northampton newspaper pays this tribute to Butler's character: "He possessed, in an
eminent degree, qualities which endeared him to all who knew him. Abiding in his
friendships, genial in character, generous and kind, an earnest, devoted Christian, few have
passed away in the spring-time of life more loved and regretted than Stephen Brewer
Butler." To this tribute all his classmates and college friends will most unreservedly
subscribe.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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