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And so,
for nearly all information outside of my own recollections, I have been
indebted to the kindness of relatives and friends.
The later chapters have been written by men who knew my father
intimately, and men whose reputations are such as to give weight to
their testimony.
To all of these friends I now offer my thanks for their kind assistance.
And to the public I offer this book, not for its literary merit, but as
the tribute of a daughter to a loved father, whose earnest devotion to
duty was worthy of imitation.
MRS. ROSETTA B. HASTINGS.
_Farmington, Kansas, April 23,1889._


INTRODUCTION
In this country inherited fortunes, or ancestral honors, have little
effect on a man's reputation; but inherited disposition and early
surroundings have much effect on his character.
My father's ancestors were from New England. His father, Phineas Butler,
came from Saybrook, Connecticut, where the Congregational Churches
framed the Saybrook platform. His mother's people, the Pardees, came
from Norfork, Connecticut.


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