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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 520]

  NATHANIEL BUTTERFIELD, an agriculturist of Pilot Township, has lived
  in Cherokee County since 1872.  He is a native of the Hoosier State,
  born in Warren County, October 16, 1832, and is a son of Judge
  NATHANIEL BUTTERFIELD, who was born at Clyde, New York, and was one
  of the first settlers of Warren County.  He was elected judge of his
  county, and served three terms; he represented his district in the
  Legislature, exhibiting much ability in that line of work.  In 1845
  he removed to Iowa County, Wisconsin, where he took an active part
  in politics; he served as chairman of the Board of Supervisors in
  that county for many years.  The mother of NATHANIEL BUTTERFIELD, Jr.,
  was BETSEY CAMPBELL, a native of the State of New York; she died in
  Warren County, Indiana, and her husband died in Iowa County, Wiscon-
  sin.  NATHANIEL, Jr., was thirteen years old when his father moved
  to Iowa County, Wisconsin; he was reared to farm life, and received
  his education in the common schools.  He was married in Iowa County,
  Wisconsin, at the age of twenty years, to Miss ELIZABETH JANE COON,
  a native of Ohio, although reared in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
  She is daughter of GEORGE and ELIZABETH (NORTH) COON.  Mr. BUTTER-
  FIELD lived in Iowa County until 1868, when he removed to Madison
  County, Iowa; there he resided four years, and at the end of that
  period he settled in Afton Township, Cherokee County, three and a
  half miles south of Aurelia; he made his home there for nine years,
  and then removed to Pilot Township.  For many years his principles
  in politics were represented by the Republican party, but in later
  years he became a member of the Greenback party.  He is frank and
  jovial in disposition, strictly honorable in business, and is highly
  esteemed by all who knew him.  Mr. and Mrs. BUTTERFIELD are the par-
  ents of eight children: EMILY JANE, GEORGE, NATHANIEL, BENJAMIN,
  WALTER SCOTT, OLIVE, JOHN and IRENE.

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