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			JUDSON AND LYDIA (ALGER) BUTTOLPH.

JUDSON BUTTOLPH occupies a pleasantly-located farm on section 9, Otisco 
Township, and has other farm lands within Ionia county.  He is prominently 
connected with the agricultural affairs of the neighborhood, and has 
considerable influence in all matters that pertain to the welfare of the 
community.  As a farmer he is industrious and thorough-going, ready to adopt 
a practical idea, yet never giving up the old plans without due consideration
 of the new.  His farm is supplied with the necessary outbuildings and a 
good farmhouse, and is stocked with domestic animals that are kept in good 
condition and always find a ready sale.
	The parents of Judson Buttolph were the Rev. John and Sarah (Douglas)
 Buttolph, natives respectively of New York and Massachusetts.  Their 
marriage took place in the Empire State August 27, 1816, and to them were 
born six children, namely:  Sylva A. and Henry D., deceased; John G., whose 
home is near Pontiac; James W., living near Pompeii; Judson, our subject; 
and Sarah Maria, a resident of Pontiac.  The deceased son was a Baptist
minister and was the second of that denomination located at Ionia.  The 
father was engaged in the ministry of the Baptist Church in the Empire State 
until June, 1826, when he removed to Michigan, selecting Troy, Oakland County
as the place of his residence.  He took up two hundred and ten acres of 
Government land, upon which he built a log house; he did not live long 
enough to improve it, but died three months after his arrival, October 1.
	The eyes of Judson Buttolph opened to the light June 27, 1825, in 
Dutchess County, N. Y., and he was an infant when brought to this State.  
From his father's estate he received forty-three and a half acres of land, 
on which he began farming when of age.  In 1849 he came to Ionia County and 
bought two farms in Otisco Township, the one of eighty and the other of fifty
 acres.  He also purchased one hundred and thirty-two acres near Smyrna.  
After going to Otisco Township and working there for a time Mr. Buttolph 
went onto his mother-in-law's farm, but in 1876 he removed to his present
home.  The property on which he lives consists of forty-eight acres and his 
present possessions elsewhere are a fifty-acre tract, a sixty and a seventy.
	Mr. Buttolph was married October 6, 1851, to Miss Lydia Alger.  The 
union has been blest by the birth of seven children, of whom Sarah, James, 
Jennie and Henry are living.  Three are deceased.  The youngest child is at 
home; James is in Spencer, Kent County, and the daughters live in Otisco 
Township.
	Mr. Buttolph has served as School Inspector and is now discharging 
the duties of Justice of the Peace for his third term.  In politics he is a 
Republican.  He and his wife belong to the Baptist Church.  They enjoy the 
friendship of a goodly circle of acquaintances and keep up with the times in 
their knowledge of passing events that are of general interest and in their 
association in projects that promise to advance the common welfare.  Mr. 
Buttolph was fortunate in receiving more than a common-school education, 
having been privileged to attend school in Romeo and Kalamazoo, and a manual
training school in Ashatabula County, Ohio.



This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND 
MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891. 
Pages 558-559. (Ionia County.)