Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-01-20
BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH.

BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH.
were at his bedside. He came here to
recuperate from an attack of pneu-
monia and recovered rapidly till two
weeks ago, when he suffered from
uraemic commissions.
BENJAMIN Butterworth was what Is
known as "birthright Quaker" Those
who knew him best during his busy career
are unanimous in saying of him "his daily
life was as exemplary of the tenetS OF
that good old faith as that of any public
official could be-" He was born in Warren
county, o., October %, 1897 was a member
of the state senate of Ohio from Warren
and Butler counties in 1874, was elected
representative in congress from the First
Ohio district, including the city of Cincin-
natl, to the Forty sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first con-
crosses. From then until appointed to the
position he occupied at his death, he de-
voted most of his time to the practice of
law, especially patent law, in Cincinnati.
Ben" Butterworth, as he has always
been best known, spent his earlier years
around Maineville and Fosters Crossing
the latter little station on the Little Mi
ami railroad. His father was William But
terworth, his mother Linton, family
noted throughout the entire line for their
keenness of intellect, powers Of perception
parents were of Quaker ancestry. Mai.
Butterworth's keen intellect and remark
able powers or perception were inherited
from his mother. Butterworths first ac-
quaintance with law was made in the Of
flee of Durbin Ward, then a successful
practitioner in Cincinnati. During the war
he attained the rank of major in an Ohio
regiment. He was commissioner of patents
first during the administration of Garfield
and Arthur, and his record made then and
subsequently had great weight with Presi-
dent Mckinley in selecting him for that
position. He was made secretary of the
worlds fair project early in the inception
of that great enterprise at Chicago during
the early SOS, and worked along in that ca
pacity with honor to himself and profit to
the company until it's 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, ID. c., a widow;
William, who married a Miss Deere, of Me-
line, ILL.,; young Ben, who was injured in ::
college game early in life, and Frank,
whose prowess as a foot ball coach and full
back is almost internationally
Death of Gen. Anger.
Washington, Jan. 17.-Gen. Christie
pher Colon Anger, U. S. A., retired, died
of old age at his home in West Washing
ton Sunday night. Gen. Anger was one
of the three surviving members of the
class of '43 al West Point, the class with
which Gen. Grant graduated. Gen. Au-
ger served with Grant in Mexico and
afterward with distinction through the
civil war. After the civil war he saw
considera BILE active service in the Indian
uprisings on the frontier and was later
in command of various departments of
the army. He was retired in 1885 and
has since lived in Washington. Suisse
quent to his retirement he was shot by
negro desperate in the doorway of
his home, but though seriously wounded,
recovered. He has two sons now in the
army, Capt. Colon Anger, stationed at
Fort Riley, Kan, and Maj. j. A. Anger,
now a. Leavenworth.
Death of Logan Carlisle.
New York, Jan. 17.-Logan Carlisle,
chief clerk of the treasury department
during the last Cleveland administra-
ton, died suddenly Sunday at the home
Of his father, John G. Carlisle, ex-sec-
rotary of the treasury. He had been in
poor health for more than a year, and
recently had returned from fruitless
search for relief at Hot Springs. Five
days ago he was forced to take to his
bed, but his condition was not con-
sidered alarming until Sunday after
noon. The cause of death is given as
heart failure.
logan Carlisle was BORN In Covington,
KY, in 1860, and was graduated from the
University Of Kentucky, and later removed
to Wichita, Kan. He was active in poll
tics, and especially in the campaign of 1892
He was appointed chief clerk in the depart
ment in March, 1898. He held the position
until after the Inauguration of President
Mckinley. Last month Mr. Carlisle came
to New York and Joined his fathers irn.l
Noted EnGlishman Dead.
London, Jan. 17.-Rt. Hon. Charles
Pelham Villiers, member of parliament
from South Northampton and known
as the father of the house of COM
mons" having sat continuously in the
house since 1885, died at nine o'clock
Sunday night. On January 3 Mr.. Viii
liers celebrated his ninety-sixth birth
day and received congratulatory mes
from n II no fc Of ha Eipu1pn