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BUTLER, H. S. - General agent for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The subject of this sketch owes his nativity to Oneida county, New York, where he was born on the seventeenth of December, 1840. When ten years of age he accompanied his parents to Whiteside county, Illinois, where he resided for four years. After living in various places for a number of years he finally came to Polk county, in the fall of 1868. During his early manhood he followed farming, and while living in Wisconsin was engaged as engineer on a steamboat, running on the Fox river. While in Chicago he kept books for a prominent firm, and for the last thirteen years has been engaged in the agricultural implement business, at which he has been very successful. He was married on the twentieth of March, 1871, to Miss Aurilla Everett, a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan. They have had four children, of whom only two are now living: Maud and an infant; lost two: Robert and Bessie. Mr. Butler is marked as a man of broad views, firm adherence to avowed principles, quick perception and sound judgment, which, combined with excellent business tact, has given him an influence and successwell worthy of emulation.