Individual Details
Maj Gen Benjamin Franklin BUTLER
(5 Nov 1818 - 11 Jan 1893)
Events
| Birth | 5 Nov 1818 | Deerfield, New Hampshire | |||
| Military | 1840 | with the Lowell Militia - Lowell, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Occupation | 1840 | lawyer - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 16 May 1844 | Saint Anne's Episcopal Church, Lowell, Massachusetts - Sarah Jones HILDRETH | |||
| Death | 11 Jan 1893 | Washington, D.C. | |||
| Burial | Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Jones HILDRETH (1816 - 1876) |
| Child | Blanche BUTLER (1847 - 1939) |
Notes
Military
Butler eventually rose to become colonel and eventually Brigadier Generalof the regiment which was of primarily Irish American men.