1816.
CHARLES FREDERICK BUTLER was born at New Hartford, Conn., Jan. 21, 1790, and died at Bedford, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1866, aged 76 years.
He joined the Sophomore Class in Yale College in 1813. After his graduation, he took charge for one or two years of the Academy at Bedford, N. Y., pursuing at the same time his theological studies, under the direction of Rev. Ebenezer Grant, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that village. He was licensed by the Association of the Eastern District of Fairfield County, May 28, 1817, and supplied for a time a vacant Church in this State. His first settlement was at South Salem, N. Y., where he remained five years. He then taught two years in Staples' Academy, Easton, Conn. From 1824 to 1835 he was acting pastor of the First (Mianus) Church in Greenwich, Conn. Being obliged by the state of his health to seek a change of climate, he was settled for two years in Stockbridge, N. Y., and subsequently at Verona, N. Y., for ten years. This was his last charge, though he continued for some years to do the work of an evangelist and missionary. The last years of his life were spent with his children at Bedford, N. Y.
He was married, Feb. 1817, to Miss Amanda Bundle, daughter of Solomon Bundle, Esq., of Westchester Co., N. Y., who died in 1848. Of his eight children four are living.
