Bio of BUTLER, Patrick, Wright Co., MN
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269   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY                           

  Patrick Butler came to Wright county in 1860, and preempted 160 
acres in section 27, Maple Lake township. He erected a log house, 10 by 
14 feet, with a bark roof and a board floor, and started to clear the land. 
During the maple sugar season the Indians camped around the house, their 
teepees covering many acres. When the news came of the Indian uprising 
the family fled to Monticello for safety. So great was the fright that 
they left their lamp burning on the table. After the danger was over they 
returned and again took up their work of developing the farm. Patrick 
Butler died in 1886 at the age of sixty-one. His wife, Catherine Malone, 
died in Maple Lake village in 1909. In the family there were seventeen 
children. James, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Thomas, Catherine, Patrick, 
Della, Jennie, Lucy and Ellen are alive, and William (first), Catherine, 
Patrick, Francis, John and William (second) are dead. James lives in 
Albion township. He married Julia O'Loughlin, and they have three children, 
Catherine S., Mary Lillian and Paul Francis. Mary is the wife of Henry 
Gorman, of Maple Lake, and they have eleven children: William, Joseph, 
Patrick, Annie, Mary, Virginia, Catherine, Lillian, Esther, Genevieve 
and Earl. Margaret is the widow of John Moore. Elizabeth is now the wife 
of G. A. Cunningham, of Spokane, Wash., and they have four chil-