William H. Anderson papers, 1867-1907

William H. Anderson, 1836-1902

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William H. Anderson, a lawyer of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1836. He attended Yale and graduated in 1859. He then went on to study law in Massachusetts at the office of Morse & Stevens, passing his bar exam in 1862. He established himself in Lowell, Massachusetts and became one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the state. At the age of 66 he passed away on April 14, 1902. Among his clients was the Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company wh...

Erie Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...