The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-23
In MEMORIAM

to rest at Lisbon yesterday, was born
at Straudsburg, Monroe county, Pa,
Nov. IL, 1887, and when a child of two
years Of age removed with his parents
to Buttzville, Warren county, n. J.. He
was essentially a self-made man. Re-
ceiving an academic education through
his own efforts, he studied law with j.
G. Shipman at Belvidere, N. J. When
the civil war broke out he was the Sec
ond man in Warren county to enlist in
response to President Lincoln's call for
volunteers for the three months term.
That enlistment expiring, he assisted In
raising a cavalry company for Har-
lan's Independent cavalry, afterwards
known as the Eleventh Pennsylvania
cavalry, becoming a second lieutenant,
and in 1852 he was promoted to first
lieutenant. In 1853 his regiment was
sent on a scouting expedition from
| Suffolk. Va, to the Black Water river
| during which Major BUTTE, with tWen-
ty-five of his men,, engaged 800 OF he
| enemy and by a dashing charge sue
ceeded in taking sixty-seven of the
number prisoners AND capturing a
killed and three wounded. While in
this department he vas on several &C.
casions detailed for service on court
martials as judge advocate, and for a
period of two months was provost mar
shall at Suffolk. When Longstreet be-
sieged that place, Lieutenant BUTTE
acted as aid-de-camp to Major Gener-
al Peck. On one occasion he was. de-
tailed with a part of his company for
| special service and captured forty
| eight Of the enemy, the exploit recetv-
ing favorable mention in General
Peck's report to the war department.
He was wounded in 1853, remaining in
the hospital for ON time, finally re-
signing his position in the army on &C
count Of impaired health in October,
1858. He received two brevets-one as
captain '"for gallant and meritorious
conduct in capturing from the enemy
a full Rocket battery, and the other
as major for gallant n merttorious
services in front of Suffoik"-both
signed by President Lincoln and dat
ed March Is, 1865.
Upon leaving the army he commenc-
ed the practice of law at Norfolk, Va,
where he became a leading member OF
the bar and prominent in politics. He
was a delegate from Virginia to the
national republican convention at Bal
timore in 1854. He took an active part
in the restored government ofSVirginia
and after Virginia was placed in the
Reconstruction act he took an active
part in organizing the republican party
in that state, was nominated in 1853
for congressman-at-large from Vir-
GINA on the same ticket on which G..
c. Walker was nominated and elected
governor, but withdrew from the tick
ct ten days before election.
In 1870 he removed to Charleston, s.
c., where he was elected solicitor
Estates attorney for the First judicial
circuit composed of the counties of
Charleston and Orangeburg in October
1872, for the term of four years. In
1874 he was nominated by the repub-
lican convention for the Second con-
gressional district of South Carolina
for the Forty-fourth congress against
e. w. Mackey, who received the certi-
fcate of election. Major Buttz contest
ed his seat before congress and on July
10, 1876, congress turned Mackey Out
and declared the seat vacant. The re-
publican convention. again unanimous.
ly nominated Major Buttz and he was
elected to fill the vacancy, receiving
81, 1856 votes against 13,025 for his OPP.
ponent. AT the am election he was
reelected solicitor for four years Of
the First judicial court by 5000 major.
ity. His political and professional,
standing and strength was indicated
by the fact that the people of that dis.
trict elected him to fill two of the mos
important offices, solicitor and con.
gress, by over 5000 majority in each
lease, his opponents being the ~strongest
men the democrats could select in
normally strong democratic section.
He had realized for several weeks
before his death that the end was neal
and every detail of his business mat.
tiers is said to have been arranged
with precision. His last business act.
were the purchase Of a lot in the loca
cemetery in the G. A. r.. department.
within the shadow of the G. A. r
monument, for which he secured thu
appropriation a few years ago while /
member of the state legislature, ans
but three days before his death mad,
a contract for the purchase of his owl
monument and dictated his own epi,
taph, the closing sentence of which ii
truly typical of the man: "He Away
tried to do unto others, socially an
politically, as they did unto him.
He was strongly allied with the stall
wart faction of his party because il
his honesty of purpose he believed i
stood for what was best, and though
many of his friends disagreed wifi
him they never doubted his sincerity
He was a strong, true man, honest
open Int fair.
SALTED WITH BONES.