James D. Butler (1815-1905) was born in Rutland, Vermont, and died in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont (1836) and Andover Theological Seminary (1840). Butler toured Europe in the early 1840s. He later lectured and preached in New England Congregational churches and taught at Norwich University and Wabash College. He was a professor of Greek and the humanities at the University of Wisconsin from 1858-1867. Butler was a lecturer and prolific writer, contributing articles on a wide range of subjects to many magazines.

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