Nathaniel Butler

Butler, Nathaniel. (Waterville, Maine, October 19, 1824--April 25, 1894, [probably Waterville], Maine). Baptist. Song of John Butler. Yarmouth Academy, prior to 1838; George town College, Kentucky, 1838-1839; Waterville College (now Colby College), Waterville, Maine, 1842; honorary D.D., Colby University, 1873. Principal, Waterville Academy, 1842-1843; pastorate at Turner, Maine, 1845-1850; agent, Missionary Union for Maine and Eastern Massachusetts, 1850; Secretary, Maine Baptist Missionary Society, 1855; pastorates at Eastport, Maine, c. 1850-1859; Auburn, Maine, 1860-1864; Camden, Maine, 1864-1869; Albion, Illinois, 1869-1872; Leavenworth, Kansas, 1872-1873; Bangor, Maine, 1873-1876; Dexter, Maine, 1876-1877; North Vassalborough, Maine, 1877-1878; Hallowell, Maine, 1880-1881; employee, Bodwell Granite Co., 1881-1887; evangelist, 1887-?. He was a lecturer on evangelism and worked extensively in missions. He frequently wrote prose and poetry for both the secular and religious press. His "How sweet, when worn with cares of life," published in Joseph Banvard's The Christian Melodist, A New Collection of Hymns for Social Religious Worship (Boston, 1849), speaks of the joy of refuge in Christ from toil, strife, and sin.

--Thomas W. Hunt, DNAH Archives

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Butler, Nathaniel, D.D., author of "How sweet when worn with cares of life" (Heaven anticipated), in the Christian Melodist, 1849, was born at Waterville, Maine, Oct. 19, 1824; entered the Baptist ministry in 1845, and has since held several pastorates in various parts of the States.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)