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Note: Daniel Butler
Marriage 9 Jun 1806 Anna Root
Mr Daniel Butler
Marriage 27 Aug 1816 Louisa Bishop
Mr Daniel Butler
Marriage Intention (Marriage) Jemima Bishop
"History of Berlin Twp." by Hudson Tuttle [from History of the Firelands by W.W.Williams 1879]
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Daniel Butler came to Berlin in 1814, from Cleveland, to which place he came from Massachusetts, in 1811. Losing his wife, he returned to Massachusetts in 1816, and married Jemima Bishop. They had six children, and he had two by his first wife. The children by the second marriage were: Amanda, Climena, Lucinda, Daniel, Charles and Harriet, none of whom are at present living in the township. He was an able man, and was the first who held the office of justice of the peace, or, at least, the second. For many years before his death, which occurred in 1854, in his seventy-fifth year, he had been subject to insanity, which had a religious aspect, and caused him to take his own life. He received a revelation to build a house fifty by one hundred feet, for the second coming of Christ, and not being able to build the whole, built a quarter, and thus, for years, his family lived in this most awkward tabernacle. This building lately has fallen in ruins and been destroyed. His son Daniel inherited his father's. tendencies, and at last put an end to his own life, in the same manner, in 1861, at the age of thirty-four.
The first school in the township was taught by John Leland, in the winter of 1811-12, in a house on the Fitzgerald farm, now Henry Hine's. It would probably be a great curiosity at the present time.
This school was soon suspended on account of the war, the people leaving with their families for places
of safety - Cleveland or Pennsylvania. It is said that the panic was so great, that in January 1814, only four families resided in the township. And yet the Indians were always friendly, and no instance of their depredation is recorded in the township.
The second school house was built of logs, covered with "shakes," on the farm of Daniel Butler, in 1815, and the school was first kept by Sophia Case, and afterwards by Mr. Brady and Mr. Dunn.
Among the names of the early doctors of medicine are: Drs. Guthry, Harkness and Fay. Daniel Butler also practiced, and David Butler dealt in roots and herbs.
BERLIN T0WNSHIP GOVERNMENT.
On the first day of April, 1817, the first town meeting was held in Thompson's mill. A strange assembly of only thirteen rough men in grotesque costume, patched and mended until the fabric could not be distinguished, or of enduring buckskin, with coon skin caps and fawn skin vests. They had concluded that the township needed a government, and they did not wait for the State to supply them, but felt fully competent to make such a government themselves. The judges were not troubled to count the votes, as every voter was elected to office; and some had two. The following is the list of township officers: John Laughlin, Samuel Reed and John Thompson, trustees; Henry Brady, clerk; John Hoak, treasurer; Daniel Butler, constable; Lybeus Storrs, lister and appraiser; Christopher Brubaker and Thos. Starr, path masters; John Hoak and S. S. Reed, fence viewers; Heironymus Mingus and Christopher Brubaker, poor masters.
The new government was afraid of the poor tax, and at once proceeded to "warn Rachel Taylor to depart the township of Eldridge." Who Rachel was, or when she was expected to go in the wilderness, is not stated, nor whether the officers were satisfied with a show of authority and allowed her to remain.
The population rapidly increased, so that, when in 1826, the trustees first divided the town into school districts according to the law passed the preceding year, there were eighty-nine families then in the farm districts.
"Notice: the above material is Public Domain (no copyright)."
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1820 US Census: Ohio, Huron, Eldridge, pg02
Daniel & 2nd wife Jemima Bishop 26-45, boy 10-16 Reuben , 2 girls 0-10 Sarah Ann & Lois Amanda
1830 U.S. Census Records, (official enumeration day - 1 June 1830), Ohio, Huron, Eldridge, pg02,
Daniel Butler males 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 | .females 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Daniel 40-50. wife Jemima 30-40, 2 boys 15-20 (1810-1815), girl 10-15. 1 boy & 1 girl 5-10. 2 boys & 1 girl 0-5,
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A different Daniel Butler family
1840 census: Township: Salem County: Steuben State: Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Daniel Butler
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
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Another Daniel Butler
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Ted Reising
tedohio@@yahoo.com
Dec. 15, 1998
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Mr. Daniel Butler - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male
Spouse: Miss. Mary Maxwell Marriage: 31 MAY 1816 Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
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