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History of Anoka County
And the Towns of Champlin and Dayton
In Hennepin County, Minnesota
by Albert M. Goodrich
pub. 1905 - Hennepin Publishing Co., Minneapolis


              page 190-191
              
               MARCUS Q. BUTTERFIELD was born in Farmington, Maine, Apr. 7,
              1815. He graduated from the Farmington Academy and in 1845 
              went to Ohio, finally settling at Dayton, where he lived un-
              til 1860, and in 1862, enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota
              Regiment. Upon the death of Captain CADY he became captain
              of the company, in which capacity he served until the close
              of the war. He was county attorney of Anoka county several
              terms, and mayor of the City of Anoka in 1880 and 1881. He
              was married three times. His first wife was ELIZABETH Mc
              KECHNIE, to whom he was married in 1845, and who died in
              1852. In 1856 he was married to LUCY BEAL, who died in 1868.
              In 1876 he was married to Mrs. AMANDA JOHNSON. Mr. BUTTER-
              FIELD died Dec. 15, 1886.
              
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