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John Butterfield (businessman)
American businessman and transportation pioneer (–)
John Butterfield (November 18, – November 14, ) was a transportation pioneer in the midth century in the American Northwest and Southwest. He founded many companies, including American Express which is still in operation today. The Butterfield Overland Mail Company was the longest stagecoach line in the world. The line operated from to on the Southern Overland Trail and established an important connection between the new state of California and the government and economy of the contiguous eastern states.
Early life
John Butterfield[1] was a descendant of Benjamin Butterfield, who brought his family from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Benjamin settled in Woburn and settled there as a freeman.[2] John Butterfield's father, Daniel Butterfield, lived at Berne, New York, on the Van Rensselaer Manor, near Albany. In Daniel married Malinda Harriet Baker. John was bo John butterfield.