Greene-Sullivan-Monroe County IN Archives Biographies.....Butcher, David 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DAVID BUTCHER, deceased, ex-Treasurer of Greene County, was one of eight
children born to Richard and Rebecca (Boruff) Butcher. His father dying when he
was eleven years old, the burden in caring for the family fell on his shoulders,
and at this critical period he embarked in his struggle for a home and an
honored name. He was enabled to secure only a limited schooling, but by
diligence in after years secured a good, practical education. On leaving the
farm, he went to Bloomington, there learning wagon-making, and in 1850 married
Carrie Finley, who bore him two children, only one—David F.—yet living. In 1854,
the mother died, after which Mr. Butcher moved to Sullivan and worked at his
trade until his removal to Bloomfield in 1856. At this place, he embarked in the
drug trade, at which he continued until he sold out to enter upon the duties of
County Treasurer, to which position he had been duly elected, and after one term
of two years he was re-elected, serving in all four years. Mr. Butcher was an
honest citizen, an obliging neighbor, and a loving husband and father. He was
well known and universally respected for his many sterling qualities, his
pureness of heart and simplicity of manners. He was twice married, his widow
having been Mina V. Hopkins, a native of Ireland, by whom he was the father of
three children—John V. (deceased), Stella and Cora. Mr. Butcher was a member of
the Christian Church and the Masonic fraternity, and a Democrat in politics.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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