Butterfield
Butterfield names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Butterfield KENYON LEECH, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KENYON LEECH, an American educator, born in Lapeer, Mich., in 1868. He graduated from the University of Michigan and took a special course at the Michigan Agricultural College. He became editor of the "Michigan Grange Visitor" in 1892. He was superintendent of the Michigan Farmers' Institute and field agent of the Michigan Agricultural College from 1895 to 1899. In 1903 he was chosen president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. Three years later he became president of the Agricultural College of Massachusetts. In 1916-1917 he was president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and in 1917-1918 chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Food Production and Conservation. He also served on many other committees of a similar nature. Apart from articles in periodicals, his chief work is "The Country Church and the Rural Problem" (1911).
Butterfield DANIEL, an American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, an American soldier, born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1831. At the outbreak of the Civil 12th New War he was Colonel of the York Militia. He served in the Peninsular campaign, and under Pope and Fredericksburg McClellan in 1862. At he commanded the 5th Corps, and at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg was chief of staff. He served as chief of staff to Hooker at Lookout Mountain, and Ringgold, and Pea Vine Creek; and division at Buzzard's commanded a Roost, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Mountain, and Roost, Church, ch, Kenesaw, Lost other battles. He was brevetted Major- General in the regular army. He resigned in 1869, and became chief of the United States sub-treasury in New York . He is author of "Camp and Out- City post Duty" (1862). He died in 1901.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 sketch of Daniel Butterfield lists his corps commands and his 1862 manual "Camp and Outpost Duty" but omits the one thing he is now chiefly remembered for: the bugle call "Taps," which he had sounded in place of the regulation lights-out during the Peninsular campaign in 1862 and which became the standard call at American military funerals. Modern writers usually credit him with reworking or shortening an existing call rather than composing it outright, a qualification the 1921 entry had no occasion to make. Kenyon Butterfield's career also ran on well past the account: he left Massachusetts to head the Michigan Agricultural College in the 1920s, and the two institutions he had led before it are now the University of Rhode Island and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Written for this edition, 2026.