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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 167765, member: 59"]Okie dokie. This had been a very interesting search. Found no I C Butterfield, but I found 3 J C Butterfield's in Illinois in the late 1800's - oldest born 1823 in New Hampshire, middle born 1852 in New Hampshire, youngest born 1866 in Illinois. All 3 are named John C Butterfield. Both the men born in New Hampshire were living in Chicago in 1880 and listed their occupations as "machinist." The youngest was only 2 when the wood collection started, but in 1900 he lists his occupation a carpenter. The oldest - listed a in published history of his family as John Charles Butterfield, but in his widow's will listed as John Coolidge Butterfield - was a "noted inventor" and holder of the patent on a "stamp mill" for crushing gold quartz, claimed to be the "best" in use in California at the time of his death (1887.) The family book says he died in North Carolina, but his will was probated in Chicago. He and his wife had no children, so the John C born in 1852 is not their son, but may be a nephew. His widow died in 1892 (Chicago) and her will leaves everything, including the patents she inherited, to a George Day Butterfield (name at birth George Edgar Day) who they had raised from infancy (born about 1855 in Massachusetts.) The 1852 John C Butterfield removed to St Louis, Missouri by 1900. The 1866 John C Butterfield was apparently born in Stephenson County, IL and was still in the county in 1900 when he was listed as a carpenter. But by 1910 he had moved his family to Yakima, Washington, where they remained. I favor the oldest of the 3 as the possible collector of the wood, but wonder whether someone else made the box from the samples.[/QUOTE]

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