William Allen Butler
20 February 1825 – 9 September 1902
Butler was the son of U.S. Attorney-General Benjamin Franklin Butler and the father of William Allen Butler Jr. All three were leading figures in the New York legal community. In addition to his writings on legal topics, William Sr. wrote fiction, history, and humour both in poetry and in prose.[1] He was a founding member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.[2] [1]: http://books.google.ca/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&lpg=PA66&pg=PA65 in American National Biography [2]: https://archive.org/stream/memorialofwillia00holt memorial .
Books
- Mark Twain's Library of Humor
- Nothing to wear
- Marine insurance
- Sunday laws
- Martin Van Buren, lawyer, statesman and man
- Our great metropolis: its growth, misgovernment, and needs
- Memorial of Charles H. Marshall
- Domesticus
- Book of the family and lineal descendants of Medad Butler, late of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, N.Y.
- Poems
- Two Millions
- Nothing to Wear: An Episode in City Life
- Book of the family and lineal descendants of Medad Butler
- The future
- Memorial sketch of the life and literary labors of Evert Augustus Duyckinck
- Mrs. Limber's raffle
- Samuel J. Tilden
- Domesticus
- Mrs. Limber's raffle; or, A church fair and its victims
- Martin Van Buren
- Railway communication between New York and Washington
- Nothing to wear, and other poems
- A year's legislation, state and federal, 1885-1886
- Samuel J. Tilden
- Sea scribblings, b a souvenir of the "Bothnia" (June 1-11, 1881), and of the "Gallia" (October 8-18, 1881)
- Mrs. Limber's raffle, or, A church fair and its victims
- Poems
- Mrs. Limber's raffle
- Oberammergau 1890
- Domesticus
- Miss M'Flimsey, or, Nothing to wear
- The animal book
- Evert Augustus Duyckinck
- Lawyer and client: their relation, rights, and duties
- Miss M'Flimsey, or, Nothing to wear
- Rien à mettre!
- Tom Twist
- Memorial of Charles H. Marshall
- Oberammergau
- Nothing to wear, and other poems
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