Butler, William

D.D. (Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1862), Methodist 1 b. in Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 31, 1818; graduated at Didsbury College, near Manchester, Eng., 1844; same year became a member of the Irish Wesley an Conference; in 1850 joined the New-England Annual Conference; in 1856 went to India to found a mi ion for the Methodist-Episcopal Church; returned in 1865; succeeded Dr. Mattisdn as secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union, 1869; resigned when appointed to found a mi ion for his denomination in Mexico in 1873; returned, 1879; revisited India, 1883-84. He is the author of Compendium of Mi ions, Boston, 1852; The Land of the Veda, New York, 1872; From Boston to Bareilly, and back, 1885.