Historical register : notes and queries, biographical and genealogical . HISTORICAL REGISTER: ]S^OTES AND QUERIES,BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL. Vol. I. JANUARY, 1883. No. 1. THE BUTLERS OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY.* BY REV. J. A. MURRAY, D. D. To the people of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania—* thatnursery of brave officers —it ought to be a very gratifying andstimulating recollection that, among the prominent persons ofCarlisle, at an early period, but who went to Pittsburgh andother places, where they and their descendants became more orless distinguished, may be mentioned the honored names ofB
Historical register : notes and queries, biographical and genealogical . HISTORICAL REGISTER: ]S^OTES AND QUERIES,BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL. Vol. I. JANUARY, 1883. No. 1. THE BUTLERS OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY.* BY REV. J. A. MURRAY, D. D. To the people of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania—* thatnursery of brave officers —it ought to be a very gratifying andstimulating recollection that, among the prominent persons ofCarlisle, at an early period, but who went to Pittsburgh andother places, where they and their descendants became more orless distinguished, may be mentioned the honored names ofButler, Irvine, Stevenson, Denny, Wilkins. These names, withthose of OHara, Craig, Kirkpatrick, Neville, Morgan, Ross,were among the trusted fiiends of our Government, and theleading and influential families of Western Pennsylvania. TheHon. Henry M. Brackenridge, in his Recollections of theWest, speaks of the Butler connection as a noble race ofpeople, whose fame, we may here add, is not restricted tomother Cumberland or our great Commonwealth of Pennsyl-vania, but
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