Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
BEN BUTLER AS A BOY,
4 New Story of the Famous Lawyer.

From personal letter from q prom
inent lawyer of Cincinnati. the Chi
cago Inter Ocean is permitted to pub
lish an anecdote of General Ben Butler
in his college days that has never be-
fore appeared in print He says:
While in Lowell called on General
B. +. Butler. at his residence. 1t is
not my habit, as Won know, to run
after celebrities. but the General is a
distinguished son OF my ainta mater,
and / called on him as an older
brother. He graduated in 1885 and |
in 1858
He received me cordially, and seemed
IN excellent health air. his Yachting
cruise, from which he had lately re-
turned.
He still owns the yacht America,
which 50 astonished our English cousins
in 1881 by taxing from their yachts
men the Queens cup. 4 trophy which
they have thus far failed to recover.
He was feeling we'll pleased with the
Americas performance during the
cruise of 1872. and mentioned partic-
uIarly her record in the sail from Vine
yard Haven to Marhlehead in COM
pany with the fleet of The New York
Yacht Club.
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