. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. the son of Joseph Greenand Temperance (Orwig) Butler. His father was aniron manufacturer and blast-furnace expert. His motherwas descended from one of the oldest families in BerksCounty, Pennsylvania. The Butler family lineage has been traced to thosebearing that name who went to Ireland in the reign ofHenry II. The family emigrated to America in theeighteenth century and seven members had commissionsin the American Army during the Revolution. Col. Thomas Butler, a close friend of George Wash-ington, was a charcoal contractor and furnished fuel fo
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. the son of Joseph Greenand Temperance (Orwig) Butler. His father was aniron manufacturer and blast-furnace expert. His motherwas descended from one of the oldest families in BerksCounty, Pennsylvania. The Butler family lineage has been traced to thosebearing that name who went to Ireland in the reign ofHenry II. The family emigrated to America in theeighteenth century and seven members had commissionsin the American Army during the Revolution. Col. Thomas Butler, a close friend of George Wash-ington, was a charcoal contractor and furnished fuel forfurnaces in Pennsylvania. His son, Joseph, was an ironmaster at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. His son, JosephGreen Butler, Sr., followed the iron business for sometime in central Pennsylvania. Later he moved west-ward and operated a furnace at New Wilmington, Penn- 194 Ohio ArcJi. and Hist. Society Publications sylvania, succeeding- William McKinley, Sr., father ofPresident McKinley, as manager. Joseph Green Butler, Jr., v^as a third son and was. JOSEPH GREEN BUTLER, JR. one year old when the family moved to Niles, Ohio. Hespent most of his boyhood there, attending- the villageschool with William McKinley, afterward president ofthe Ignited States. The two were intimate and lifetime Reviews, Notes and Comments 195 friends. In their boyhood days, while in the MahoningRiver, young Butler is said to have rescued WilliamMcKinley, when he was on the verge of drowning. At the age of fifteen, Mr. Butler entered a store inNiles, as clerk, but soon afterward became a shipping-clerk in the iron-works of James Ward and was promoted to financial manager, a position whichhe held from 1858 to 1863. He was with Hale andAyer, of Chicago, from 1863 to 1866. In the latteryear, he became manager of the Girard Iron Company,Girard, Ohio, and was associated with Ohios War Gov-ernor, David Tod, William Ward and William Rich-ards. They built the first blast-furnace, in the Mahon-ing Valley, to
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