Butler, George M. ( -1846), Papers, 1829-1846 (C3949)

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INTRODUCTION

Papers of George M. Butler, a surveyor, owner of the Lexington, Missouri Telegraph, and officer in the 1st Regiment, Missouri Volunteers. The papers consist of surveyor's notes, correspondence, military commission certificates, and financial records.

DONOR INFORMATION

The George M. Butler Papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Muriel Cleverdon for the estate of John Wallace on June 28, 1994 (SHS Accession No. 3020).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

George M. Butler surveyed lands in Lafayette County and bought the Lexington Telegraph on October 18, 1845. With the outbreak of the Mexican War, he raised a company of infantry and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant on June 1, 1846, for the Lafayette County Volunteers, a company of cavalry attached to the 23rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 4th Division of the Missouri Militia. On July 1, 1846, Butler was appointed as Adjutant of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, an office which he filled until his death from typhus fever on November 25, 1846, one hundred and twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The George M. Butler Papers consist of survey notes, correspondence, military commissions, and financial records. The papers are arranged into two sections: a survey record book and personal.

The survey record book provides the results of Butler's survey work. The personal material comprises two military commission certificates and correspondence relative to his military service in the Mexican War. Butler's financial records, most of which were receipts for the payment of accounts to different companies that he conducted business with, loans he paid back, and court costs he owed to the Lafayette County Court make up the rest of the section.

FOLDER LIST

f.1Survey record book, c. 1840
f.2Military records and correspondence, 1846
f.3Financial accounts, 1839-1846
f.4Court accounts, Lafayette County Court, 1829-1834
f.5Financial accounts, 1841-1845

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

  • Bulter, George M. ( -1846)
  • Land surveying--Missouri
  • Mexican War, 1846
  • Missouri, Lafayette County
  • Missouri. Volunteers, 1st Regiment
  • Quisenberry, J.T.
  • Young, James