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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Francis John Butterfield

page 378

Mr. Francis John Butterfield was born in Tasmania in 1838, and went in the schooner “Isabelle” with Captain Gage to California, at the time of the gold rush there. After three months spent in that country, Mr. Butterfield, then quite a lad, shipped on the schooner “John Bull,” for Auckland, where he arrived in 1849, and in the same year left for Tasmania, where he served an apprenticeship to the cabinet making trade. When the Port Curtis rush, on the Fitzroy river, occurred, he was seized with the gold fever, and hastily proceeded to the scene of activity, but like many others he was not very successful there, and soon left for Sydney, where for two years he worked at his trade. After a few years spent at sea in whaling ships, Mr. Butterfield arrived at Port Chalmers, in the “Cosmopolite,” in the early sixties, and again applied himself to his trade. He revisited his native country, and while there got married, finally returning to Dunedin and settling down in business. Mr. Butterfield has a grown up family of five sons and three daughters.