Bustard

the name of a genus of European birds.: P Butler, bysceagh and capital of Butler county, a.: on the Cone que ne ing creek and the Pennsylvania and other railroads; 26 miles N. of Pittsburg; is in a natural gas, oil, coal, and iron region; and manufactures woolen and silk goods, plate gla , oil-well machinery, and steel cars. Pop. (1910) 20,728.. Butler, Benjamin Franklin, an American lawyer and soldier, born in Deer field, N. H., Nov. 5, 1818; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, and became distinguished as a criminal lawyer and politician. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1853, of the State Senate in 1859- 1860. Butler had risen to the rank of Brigadier-General of militia; and, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he marched with the 8th Ma achusetts Regiment, and, after a check at Big Bethel, was appointed to the command of Baltimore and of Eastern Virginia, with his headquarters at Fort Monroe. In February, 1862, he commanded the military forces sent from- Boston to Ship Island, near the mouth of the Mi i ippi; and, after New Orleans had surrendered to the naval forces under Farragut, he held military po e ion of the city.