History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . the bill which passed, placingthe entire management of the remaining college lands in the hands of theState Board of Agriculture. He is a man of decided opinion, naturally 382 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. combative and will fight for what he believes to be right. To his friendshe is intensely loyal; enemies he has none. Children: Frederick Llewellyn, Robert L., 93, Duncan L., Jessie L.,(Mrs. Terrell), Margaret Vilette, Graham L., Kenyon L. Address: 257W. California St., Pasadena, Ca
History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . the bill which passed, placingthe entire management of the remaining college lands in the hands of theState Board of Agriculture. He is a man of decided opinion, naturally 382 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. combative and will fight for what he believes to be right. To his friendshe is intensely loyal; enemies he has none. Children: Frederick Llewellyn, Robert L., 93, Duncan L., Jessie L.,(Mrs. Terrell), Margaret Vilette, Graham L., Kenyon L. Address: 257W. California St., Pasadena, California. Ira Howard Butterfield was born December 22, 1840 at Utica, Macombcounty, Michigan and took the same name as that of his father, hence forthe early part of his life, wrote after it junior. The name of his motherwas Rachel (McNeil) B. He married, August 29, 1866, Olive F. Davison,Lapeer, Michigan. He was brought up on a farm, educated in the commonschool, Westfield Academy, New York, State Normal School, Michigan, atotal schooling of approximately that of a high school. When twenty, he. HENRY GRAHAM REYNOLDS. started overland for California having in charge a drove of cattle and sheepfor his father and John D. Patterson. He returned in about two years. In1865 he began on his own farm breeding Holstein cattle and Merino sheep,continuing until 1893. In 1879, he was appointed deputy collector andinspector of customs at Port Huron, serving until 1885 and again in 1889,resigning in 1893; appointed a member of the State Board of Agriculture1889, serving until 1893 when he was elected their secretary serving until Feb-ruary, 1899, also serving as postmaster until 1902; in 1881 he was a memberof the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society; 1891 electedsecretary of that society, serving for four years; vice-president three years,1898 president; 1899-1910 secretary; 1910-1911 general manager of the Con-necticut Fair at Hartford. He is a genial man without taint of
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