BIO: Burton N. Butts, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 292-293.
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  Butts, Burton N., was born on May 2, 1864, in the town of Masonville, 
Delaware County, N.Y. He was brought up in a Christian home and early 
began a life of prayer. At the age of ten he sought pardon in Christ. 
Being misguided by his religious instructors, he did not find the peace 
he longed for until he was sixteen years old.  He began working out by 
the month when he was eleven years old. Nearly every summer after that 
found him in the employ of some farmer, and he usually served about 
eight months of the year. In the winter season he attended school. By 
this method he earned his living, and advanced in the English branches 
sufficiently, so that when nineteen he began teaching district school, 
and taught seven terms. In the spring he was twenty he had a long siege 
of rheumatic fever, during which he had severe spiritual struggles, the 
result of which was his covenanting with God to enter the ministry. He 
received exhorter's license in July, 1884, and local preacher's license 
in March, 1885.
  On April 6, 1885, he married Miss Della A. Booth, of North Sanford. 
The same spring he took work as supply assistant pastor on the McClure 
and North Sanford charge, living at North Sanford, Rev. Emory Baldwin 
being the pastor. During 1886 and 1887 he supplied the Cherry Ridge 
charge, and joined the Conference in 1888. During his pastorate at 
Wallsville he was severely sick with a complication of diseases, so 
much so that for two years he was forced to cease work in the ministry.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1883-89, Lackawaxen; 1890-91, 
Herrick Center; 1892-95, Wallsville; 1896, sy.; 1897, sd.; 1898, 
Rockdale; 1899-1902, Garrattsville; 1903, Foster.