Cyrus
BUTLER
(b.
9 May 1767
,
Providence, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
d.
abt. 1849
,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
)
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Cyrus BUTLER was born 9 May 1767 in Providence, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Cyrus BUTLER was the child of ? and ?Cyrus BUTLER died abt. 1849 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
sons of Samuel Butler and Mary Athearn
BUTLER, Cyrus, philanthropist, born in 1767; died in Providence, Rhode Island, 22 August, 1849. His father, Samuel Butler, was originally a shoemaker in Edgarton, Massachusetts, and brought up his sons, Samuel and Cyrus, to the same trade, but became a ship owner in Providence, where he had removed in 1750, and left them a large fortune. Cyrus increased his share by frugality and wide commercial operations, and died worth several millions. He gave $40,000 to endow the Butler hospital for the insane at Providence.
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