The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-17
BENZ. BUTTERWORTH DEAD.
Commissioner of Patents Died at
Townsville, Ga.
VICTIM or BRIGRT's DISEASE.
The End Was Peaceful and His wife
and children Soothcd HIS
Last Moments.

| Savannah, Ca, January ia special 4
| the News from Townsville. Ca. says
| Hon. Benjamin Butterrworth, who hal
been sick In this city some weeks, tool
a sudden turn for the worse this morn
! ing and died at 3 o'clock this afternoon
His body will he sent to Washington To-
morrow. The trouble which carried hin
! off was Bright's disease The end wai
peaceful and when it came his wife and
| children were at his bedside.
| He came here to recuperate from an at
tack of pneumonia and recovered rapidly
| until two weeks ago, when he suffered
from nuremic causes. From that relapse
he never recovered.
Cincinnati, Ohio, January 16.-Benjamin
Butterworth was what is known as a
"birthright Quaker" Those who knew
him best during his busy career are unant-
nous In saying of him his daily life was
an exemplary of the tenets of that good
old faith as that of any public official could
be. He was born in Warren county. Ohio,
October IL. 1887, and was member of
the State senate from Ohio from Warren
and Butler counties In 1874; was elected
from the First Ohio district to the Forty
sixth. Forty-seventh, Forty ninth and
Fifteth congresses and was reelected to
the Fifty-first congress as republican.
Ben" Butterworth. as he has always
been best known, spent his early years
. ound about Mainevile and osters Cro.s-
ing-the latter little station on the Little
Mama railroad. His father was William
ButterwOrth; his mother a Linton, well
known throughout the line for their
keenness OF intellect, powers of perception
and strength in speech and debate. Both
parents were of Quaker ancestry.
Major Butterw orth's keen intellect ana
remarkable powers OF perception was ill.,
herited from his mother. Butterworths
fist acquaintance with law was made in
the Office of Durby Ward, then success
full practitioner in Cincinnati. During the
war he attained the rank of major in an
Ohio regiment.
Mr. Butterworth was elected a represent.
alive in congress from the First Ohio dis
trict. including the city of Cincinnati, to
the Forty Sixth. Forty eighth, Forty ninth,
Fiftieth and Fifty-frst congresses.
From then until appointed TO the position
he occupied at his death he devoted most
of his time to the practice of law and
especially patent law in this city. He was
commissioner OF patents first during the
administration of Garfield and Arthur and
his record made then and subsequently
had great weight with President Mckinley
in selecting him for that position. He wss
secretary of the Worlds Fair early in the
inception of that great enterprise at Chi
cago during the early 90s and worked |
along In that capacity with honor to him |
self and profit to the company until Its |
close.
A wife and four children survive the |
dead statesman. His wife was Miss Mary |
Schuyler of Pennsylvania. The children
are Mrs. Howe of Washington, widow: /
William, who married n Miss Deere of
Moline H.; Young Ben, who was injured |
IN college game early in life and Frank
whose prowess as football coach and
fulback is almost international.