Peter Butler

Pierre Bouthiller - (Peter Butler) born 1775
Spouse - Josette Goget - Josephte (Josie)(Huyette) Guyette born 1788
Father of Charles Butler (born 1813)
Grandfather of Louis Albert Butler (born 1861)
Great-Grandfather of Helen Valida Butler (born 1893)

As the anscestors of this family resided in Canada it is impossible to ob tain on this side of the boundary line any accurate information relative to its early history. It made its way to New Hampshire by way of Vermont, and the subscriber, who is still on the sunny side of fifty, has acquired success in his various enterprises.

(I) Peter Butler, presumably the emigrant, who was born in , in 1792, settled in St. Athanase. Province of Quebec. The maiden name of his wife was Josephine F. Goyette.

(II) Charles Butler, sou of Peter and Josephine F. Goyette) Butler, was born in St. Athanase March 18, 1813. He was a miller by trade and followed that calling at various places in Canada and Vermont. While residing in Highgate, Vermont, he assisted in operating the first steam grist mill to be established in that section. The last four years of his life were spent in retirement in Keene, and he died there August 4, 1896. He married Flavia Boudry, and had a family of twelve children : Joseph,, Charles, Ely (?) (who died young), Lucy (also deceased), Frederick, Ely (?) T., David, Flavia, Mary. Henry, Julia and Louis A.

(III) Louis A. Butler, youngest son and child of Charles and Flavia (Boudry) Butler, was born in Henryville, Province of Quebec, February 23, 1861. He began his education in Highgate, and sub sequently attended schools in Bedford and Pike River, Province of Quebec. In 1879 he went to Keene, and finding employment at the Hale Chair Manufactory in South Kccne, he remained with that concern for about three and one-half years. For the succeeding five years he worked at steam-fitting with D. D. Kepple, and he was for an equal length of time connected with the John Shaw Shoe Company, which is now the Lancaster Shoe Company. He next became proprietor of a billiard parlor in Keene, which he relinquished four years later in order to engage in the hotel business at Stoddard, New Hampshire, and upon his return to Keene he became manager of a local club. Resuming the hotel business in Albany, New York, he remained in that city for a year, at the expiration of which time he again returned to his home in Keene and is now residing there in retirement. Mr. Butler is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Or der of Elks. He was married April 26, 1880. to Miss Louise Angelinc Banyea, daughter of Louis and Adelaide (Bouricz) Banyea. His children are: Martile F„ Corrine A., Benjamin H. C, Margaret L, Helen V., Oliver B., James S., Joseph L. and Pauline E. Butler.

How Bouthillier became Butler