Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler: With ReminiscencesRev. Pardee Butler was born at Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York, in 1816, the son of Phineas and Sarah Pardee Butler. His family migrated to Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, in 1818, and to Sandusky Plains, Ohio, in 1839. He married Sibjl S. Carleton, daughter of Joseph Carleton, at Sullivan, Ashland County, Ohio, in 1843. Their family migrated to Iowa in 1850, to Illinois, and in 1855 to Kansas. He was a minister, and fought against slavery, and for prohabition. He died at his home near Farmington, Kansas, in 1888. |
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... . There a settlement had been begun three years before in the heavy timber , and there were only a few small clearings here and there in the woods , My grandmother came on with her brother the following spring INTRODUCTION. ...
... . There a settlement had been begun three years before in the heavy timber , and there were only a few small clearings here and there in the woods , My grandmother came on with her brother the following spring INTRODUCTION. ...
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... spring . She had three small children , but they made the journey in a sled , in bad weather , cut- ting their own roads , and camping in the woods at night . Grandmother Pardee came on later . She was a woman of great energy , and ...
... spring . She had three small children , but they made the journey in a sled , in bad weather , cut- ting their own roads , and camping in the woods at night . Grandmother Pardee came on later . She was a woman of great energy , and ...
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... spring , but in hot weather they dried up , leaving here and there a stag- Kant pond . I have heard father tell how one of his neighbors tried to break a field by beginning on the outside , and plowing farther in as the land dried up ...
... spring , but in hot weather they dried up , leaving here and there a stag- Kant pond . I have heard father tell how one of his neighbors tried to break a field by beginning on the outside , and plowing farther in as the land dried up ...
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... springs of cool water that has mocked his vision , slowly fade away out of his sight . So seemed to perish my castles ... spring of 1850 father sold his property and decided to go to Iowa . Shortly before the time of starting , my little ...
... springs of cool water that has mocked his vision , slowly fade away out of his sight . So seemed to perish my castles ... spring of 1850 father sold his property and decided to go to Iowa . Shortly before the time of starting , my little ...
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... spring he at- tended a co - operation meeting at Walnut Grove , Jones Co. , at which he was employed to labor with me in what was called District No. 2. His district included the counties of Scott , Clinton , Jackson , Jones , Cedar ...
... spring he at- tended a co - operation meeting at Walnut Grove , Jones Co. , at which he was employed to labor with me in what was called District No. 2. His district included the counties of Scott , Clinton , Jackson , Jones , Cedar ...
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