- Title
- Diary of Wm. C. Butler
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- Creator
- William Colflesh Butler
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- Description
- Butler wrote of his struggles to find work as an ornamental sign painter. In the summer of 1881 the family ran a boardinghouse in Atlantic City but lost money. He also wrote about his church activities, collecting botanical specimens, and the assassination of President Garfield./nWilliam Colflesh Butler, born in 1859 to William (1819-1886) and Margaret Gaul Butler (1821-1916), was an aspiring ornamental sign painter and an active member of the Mantua Baptist Church in Philadelphia at the time this diary was written./nIncludes a list of personal income and expenses for the years 1880 and 1881. At the end of the volume, there is a biographical sketch of his father written after his death in 1886, and a sketch of his mother written after her death in 1916.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Diaries","Young men--Diaries--19th century","Sign painters","Atlantic City (N.J.)--Description and travel","Baptists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia"]
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