Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Butterfield, Mrs Matilda Allen 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Butterfield, Mrs. Matilda (Allen) - This is the age when women are coming to 
the front and demonstrating that they are fully competent to manage large 
affairs for themselves.  Possessing habits of thrift and industry as many of 
them do, they make their work count for something and as the heads of business 
concerns prosper in a remarkable degree.  One of the leading factors in the 
business life of Morris, Ill., is Mrs. Matilda (Allen) (Humble) Butterfield, a 
woman of more than ordinary strength of character, who in spite of many 
adverses has steadily risen and is now owner of valuable property and a large 
and flourishing grocery store.

Mrs. Butterfield was born in Berkshire, England, September 19, 1833, and in 
1855 started for the United States with Grundy County as her objective point.  
On the trip over she met on board ship and later married William Humble.  Her 
second marriage was to Dr. E. T. Maunders, and a few years after his death she 
married Joseph D. Butterfield.  Mrs. Butterfield has never spared herself but 
has labored long and earnestly to acquire property.  Her savings have been 
carefully invested and when she had enough, put it into real estate.  She 
purchased the business block on Liberty street, Morris, where she conducts a 
general grocery store.  Although a woman of advanced years she is as capable 
as ever, and looks after her own affairs.  Her prosperity is all the more 
remarkable as when she came to Morris she had nothing and all she has she 
earned herself.  There is no one more highly respected in Grundy County than 
this capable, reliable and honest woman, who had made her own way in the world.

page 781

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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