History of Mexico, (Oswego County) New York United States of America

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Consul Willshire Butterfield, author, was born in Mexico, N. Y., July 28, 1824. He was educated at the State normal school, Albany, N. Y.; served as superintendent of schools in Seneca county, Ohio, 1847-48 and was admitted to the bar in 1854. He engaged in historical writing with Lyman C. Draper at Madison, Wis., in 1875, was an editor of the Northwest Review in 1883; associate editor of Descriptive America in 1885, and editor-in-chief of The Magazine of Western History one year, 1886-87. He is the author of a History of Seneca County, Ohio, An Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky under Col. William Crawford, in 1782, History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet, in 1634, History of the University of Wisconsin, and History of the Girtys. He edited: The Washington Crawford Letters, Washington-Irvine Correspondence, A Short Biography of John Leith and the Jonrnal of Capt. Jonathan Heart. In 1875-76 he wrote, in connection with Dr. Draper, Border Forays and Adventures, in 1884, with Hon. Frank A. Flower, The Giants of the West. In 1892 he completed, in MS.; History of the Conquest of the Illinois and Wabash Towns 1778-79; in 1893-94, a History of Brule's Discoveries and Explorations, 1610-26, History of Williamson's Expedition, 1782, (1895); Chicago of Old (1896). He died in South Omaha, Neb., Sept. 25, 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Mexico, (Oswego County) New York

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