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L.H. Butterfield


Born
in Lyndonville, New York, The United States
August 08, 1909

Died
April 25, 1982

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Lyman Henry Butterfield was an American historian and biographer, and is best known as the first editor-in-chief ofThe Adams Papers,a twenty-volume collection of diaries, letters and other writings.

Born in Lyndonville, New York in 1909, to high school teacher and principal Roy L. Butterfield and his wife Ethel Butterfield, he was educated at Harvard, receiving a BA in 1930 and a MA in 1934. He married Elizabeth Anne Eaton of Cleveland, Ohio in 1935, and the two went on to have two children. He taught English at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during which period he discovered an interest in the late colonial and early Federal period of American history. He edited a collection of Dr. Benjamin Rush' letters, publis
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