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Willard Parker Butler

Lawyer

Centurion, 1887–1935

Proposed by
Charles Butler, Thomas B. Coddington, and Francis F. Marbury
born March 28, 1857
New York (Manhattan), New York
died January 10, 1935
Zurich, Switzerland
elected February 5, 1887
Age twenty-nine
buried Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Member portrait of Willard Parker Butler

Archivist’s Notes

Son of Benjamin F. Butler; brother of Willard Parker Butler; nephew of William Allen Butler and Willard Parker Jr.; grandson of Willard Parker; great-nephew of Charles Butler; cousin of Edmund Dwight

Century Memorial

Willard Parker Butler’s social and legal qualities came to him by right of inheritance. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Butler, was Attorney-General in the cabinets of Jackson and Van Buren; his maternal grandfather [Willard Parker] was an old and eminent fellow-Centurion. Willard Parker Butler, in addition to his legal acumen, was an assiduous collector in such varied fields as pottery, books, etchings and postage stamps. He was a generous host, an inspiring conversationalist, with ready reminiscence of travel, notable acquaintance and curious law experience, which invariably left the flavor of his talk to linger in the minds of his fortunate associates.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1935 Century Association Yearbook

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