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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">John Butterfield</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:JohnButterfield.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/JohnButterfield.jpg/220px-JohnButterfield.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/JohnButterfield.jpg/330px-JohnButterfield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/JohnButterfield.jpg/440px-JohnButterfield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1801-11-18</span>)</span>November 18, 1801<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Berne,_New_York" title="Berne, New York">Berne, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 14, 1869<span style="display:none">(1869-11-14)</span> (aged 67)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Utica,_New_York" title="Utica, New York">Utica, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Forest_Hill_Cemetery_(Utica,_New_York)" title="Forest Hill Cemetery (Utica, New York)">Forest Hill Cemetery</a><br />Utica, New York, U.S.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Butterfield</b> (November 18, 1801 – November 14, 1869) was a transportation pioneer in the mid-19th century in the American Northwest and Southwest. He founded many companies, including <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a> which is still in operation today. The <a href="/wiki/Butterfield_Overland_Mail" title="Butterfield Overland Mail">Butterfield Overland Mail Company</a> was the longest stagecoach line in the world. The line operated from 1858 to 1861 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. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Butterfield<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a descendant of Benjamin Butterfield, who brought his family from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. Benjamin settled in Woburn and settled there as a freeman.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Butterfield's father, Daniel Butterfield, lived at <a href="/wiki/Berne,_New_York" title="Berne, New York">Berne, New York</a>, on the Van Rensselaer Manor, near Albany. In 1822 Daniel married Malinda Harriet Baker. John was born November 18, 1801, in Berne. He attended schools near his boyhood home, but his education was meager.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was employed in the staging business at an early age. </p> <blockquote><p>“In early life we find him in the employment of Thorpe & Sprague, of that city [Albany], as a driver, and through the solicitation of Mr. Theodore S. Faxton came to Utica [NY], where he for a time was employed in picking up passengers from the taverns and boats for Parker’s stages. After a time, he started a livery [1827] with but small accommodations. His connection to Parker & Co. continued so long as they were still in business, and was succeeded by lines of his own, wherein he was a leading manager in the State until staging was superseded by railroads.” <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_ventures">Business ventures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Business ventures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He started stage lines based in his hometown of Utica, New York. </p> <blockquote><p>“Mr. Butterfield devoted his attention largely to lines running North and South. At the height of stage coaching he had forty lines running from Utica as headquarters to Ogdensburg and Sacketts Harbor on the North, and South to the Pennsylvania line, and through Chemung and Susquehanna valleys.”<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>He soon expanded his transportation empire. </p> <blockquote><p>“He became interested in packet boats on the [Erie] canal, and in steamboats on Lake Ontario, in the construction of plank roads leading to Utica and was the originator of its street railroads. He more than any other secured the building of the Black River and Southern railroads. When the practical uses of the electrical telegraph were demonstrated he joined Faxton, Wells, Livingston and others in establishing the New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Company, and urged the extension of other lines and companies. …He was a pioneer in the transportation business, and aided in developing it from the crude methods of the stage coach to those of the fast trains of our own time.”</p></blockquote> <p>John became aware that there was a need to ship parcels (express) by his varied transportation companies. </p> <blockquote><p>“In 1849 he formed the express company of Butterfield, Wasson & Co. being among the first who saw the profit to be gained by the rapid carriage of merchandise that would bear express charges. The success of that important enterprise was largely owing to him; he was a directing power in it during his life and reaped from its great distinction and pecuniary power. Later the business was conducted and is still known as the American Express Company, among the greatest corporations of the country”<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Because of the pioneering success to establish an express company, other entrepreneurs in upstate New York, not far from John Butterfield's home in Utica, also started express companies by using Butterfield's vast transportation network. Henry Wells was from Auburn, NY (80-miles from Utica), and William Fargo was from Pompei, NY (50-miles from Utica) and their express companies of Wells & Co., and Livingston, Fargo & Co. became competitors of Butterfield, Wasson & Co. Butterfield saw the benefit of forming one company by consolidating the three separate companies. In 1850, The American Express Company was formed from the three companies into one consisting of two subdivisions. The company's subdivision of Wells, Butterfield & Co. would control the express business from Buffalo, NY, to the east, and the subdivision of Livingston, Fargo & Co. would control the express business from Buffalo to St. Louis, Missouri.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="John_Butterfield’s_Overland_Mail_Company"><span id="John_Butterfield.E2.80.99s_Overland_Mail_Company"></span>John Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: John Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Resource Study Act, to designate the Butterfield Trail as a National Historic Trail, was authorized under the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (Public Law 111-11) signed by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009. The act was completed and in June 2018 the bill was presented to Congress by Arkansas Senator <a href="/wiki/John_Boozman" title="John Boozman">John Boozman</a>. Kirby Sanders was the consulting historian and lead researcher for the Butterfield study for the National Park Service.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Congressional authorized researcher Sanders put into perspective Wells, Fargo & Co.’s only direct involvement with the Butterfield Overland Mail Company. He stated “Wells Fargo may have run a ‘trunk route’ off the Butterfield [Trail] in LA [Los Angeles] but it was NOT Butterfield per se.”<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line was very expensive and cost $3,500,000 to build and maintain.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the money was borrowed from the banks of express companies such as Adams Express and Wells, Fargo & Co. Express. William B. Dinsmore, who was also president of Adams Express Co., was the second largest stockholder and was Vice President of Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company. The largest lender may have been Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, since they were the most successful of the express companies. </p><p>Ownership of the six-year contract for John Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company was by stockholders only and therefore any ownership was as stated on the stock certificates. Nowhere in the six-year contract, with all its various changes from 1858 to 1864, is the name of Wells, Fargo & Co. to be seen.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>“Although Wells Fargo & Company shared board members with several stagecoach companies, it was not primarily in the stagecoach business, it was, first and foremost, an express company, concerned with expediting the shipment of almost anything between a paying sender and an intended addressee.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the late 1960s, some historians tried to make the case, through deductive reasoning only, that Wells, Fargo & Co. was an active part of Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of these was Ralph Moody even though he stated in his book <i>Stagecoach West</i>: </p> <blockquote><p>“No conclusive evidence has been ever discovered to prove that Wells, Fargo & Co. had outright ownership of the Overland Mail Company and the Pioneer Stage Line on or before July 1, 1861, the date on which the overland mail contract was transferred to the central line.”<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>It wasn’t until 1867, five years after Butterfield ceased operations on the Southern Overland Trail, that Wells, Fargo & Co. entered the staging business when they scraped off the name on the transom rails of the Pioneer Stage Line and added their own. The line was operating on the western section of the Central Overland Trail.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp,_4c,_1958_issue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg/290px-Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg/435px-Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg/580px-Overland_Mail_commemorative_stamp%2C_4c%2C_1958_issue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="718" /></a><figcaption>In 1958 the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Overland Mail stage line express.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>His son, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Adams_Butterfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel Adams Butterfield">Daniel Adams Butterfield</a> (1831–1901), was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Assistant U.S. Treasurer.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Daniel is credited with creating the bugle call <i><a href="/wiki/Taps_(bugle_call)" title="Taps (bugle call)">Taps</a></i>, a variation of a bugle call known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Scott_Tattoo" title="Scott Tattoo">Scott Tattoo</a></i>, in 1862.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butterfield died on November 14, 1869, at his home in Utica.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Butterfield was buried in <a href="/wiki/Forest_Hill_Cemetery_(Utica,_New_York)" title="Forest Hill Cemetery (Utica, New York)">Forest Hill Cemetery</a> in Utica New York, where he lived when the established his first stage coach line.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography">Biography portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Butterfield_Overland_Mail" title="Butterfield Overland Mail">Butterfield Overland Mail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stagecoach" title="Stagecoach">Stagecoach</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>The Butterfield Trail and Overland Mail Company in Arizona, 1858-1861</i>, Canastota Publishing, Co. Inc., Canastota, New York, 2011. This book is a comprehensive account of the Butterfield Trail in Arizona.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>The Cochise County Historical Journal</i>, A Cochise County Historical Publication, Vol. 46 -No. 1 – Spring/Summer 2016, 50th Anniversary Issue. All articles were by Gerald T. Ahnert concerning the history of Butterfield's Overland Mail Company.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T. & Nancy Hendricks, <i>The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture,</i> Butterfield's Overland Mail Company, Editor Guy Lancaster. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/butterfields-overland-mail-company-2308/">https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/butterfields-overland-mail-company-2308/</a></li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>Desert Tracks,</i>, a publication of the Southern Trails Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, The Construction of the Butterfield Trail in Eastern Arizona, June 2013, p. 18.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>Desert Tracks,</i> a publication of the Southern Trails Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Arizona's Sentinel Plain, January 2016, pp. 8–12.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>Desert Tracks,</i> a publication of the Southern Trails Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, Researching the Butterfield Trail Through Arizona, January 2013, pp. 7–9.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>Overland Journal,</i> Oregon-California Trails Association, Identifying Butterfield's Overland Mail Company Stages on the Southern Trail, 1858–1861, Volume 32, Number 4, Winter 2014–2015, pp. 140–163.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>The Carriage Journal,</i> Surviving a Ride of a Butterfield Stagecoach, Volume 53, Number 4, August 2015, pp. 220–225.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>SCVhistory.com,</i> A Service of SCVTV/Local Television for Santa Clarita, California, CEO Leon Worden, Construction of the Overland Mail Co. Stage Line in California, January 2014.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>SCVhistory.com,</i> A Service of SCVTV/Local Television for Santa Clarita, California, CEO Leon Worden, Stagecoach or Celerity Wagon, January 2014.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>SCVhistory.com,</i> A Service of SCVTV/Local Television for Santa Clarita, California, CEO Leon Worden, Butterfield Overland Mail Co. Celerity Wagon.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>SCVhistory.com,</i> A Service of SCVTV/Local Television for Santa Clarita, California, CEO Leon Worden, Butterfield's Overland Mail, Co. Timetable.</li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>California Parks Service,</i> Director Roger Deshi, “Butterfield Overland Mail Company Stagecoaches and Stage (Celerity) wagons used on the Southern Trail, 1858-1861,” 2013. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/files/butterfield_overland_mail_company_stagecoaches_and_stage_wagons_used_on_southern_trail_1858-1861_gerald_ahnert.pdf">https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/files/butterfield_overland_mail_company_stagecoaches_and_stage_wagons_used_on_southern_trail_1858-1861_gerald_ahnert.pdf</a></li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T., <i>California Parks Service,</i> Director Roger Deshi, “Construction of the Butterfield Overland Mail Company Stage Line in California, 1858-1861,” 2013. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/files/construction_of_butterfield_overland_mail_company_stage_line_in_california_gerald_ahnert_coyright_2013.pdf">https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/22491/files/construction_of_butterfield_overland_mail_company_stage_line_in_california_gerald_ahnert_coyright_2013.pdf</a></li> <li>Ahnert, Gerald T.,<i> Legends of America,</i> (Facebook site) "John Butterfield and the Overland Mail." <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-butterfield/">https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-butterfield/</a></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="smithsonian" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/about-us-stamps-modern-period-1940-present-commemorative-issues-1950-1959-1958-1959-1">"Overland Mail Issue"</a>. Smithsonian National Postal Museum. 1958<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 11,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Overland+Mail+Issue&rft.pub=Smithsonian+National+Postal+Museum&rft.date=1958&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpostalmuseum.si.edu%2Fexhibition%2Fabout-us-stamps-modern-period-1940-present-commemorative-issues-1950-1959-1958-1959-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Butterfield+%28businessman%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="foresthill" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foresthillcemetery.org/test">"Forest Hill: History"</a>. Utica Cemetery Association, Utica New York<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Forest+Hill%3A+History&rft.pub=Utica+Cemetery+Association%2C+Utica+New+York&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foresthillcemetery.org%2Ftest&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Butterfield+%28businessman%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Butterfield_(businessman)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It is often erroneously stated that “Warren” was John Butterfield’s middle name. There is no primary source for this common error. He signed his stock certificates with only John Butterfield. Most important is his signed name of John Butterfield on his will which must be his legal full name. Also, only John Butterfield is on his tombstone.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Tyngsboro' Centennial Record</i>. Lowell: Young People's League. 1876. p. 6.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tyngsboro%27+Centennial+Record&rft.place=Lowell&rft.pages=6&rft.pub=Young+People%27s+League&rft.date=1876&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Butterfield+%28businessman%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD,</i> Edited by Julia Lorrilard Butterfield, The Grafton Press, New York, 1904, pp. 1-2. Note: This reference is authored by the wntains a significant biography for John Butterfield.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>HISTORY OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK,</i> Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Philadelphia, Everts & Fariss, 1878.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Oswego Weekly Palladium,</i> Oswego, NY, “Butterfield Stables Sold,” June 13, 1894, p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD,</i> p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Syracuse Daily Standard,</i> NY, "American Express Company, "April 5, 1850, p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is from his statement to historians on his Facebook site <i>Butterfield Overland Trail Friends</i>, March 22, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Butterfield Overland Trail Friends</i>, October 16, 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Waddell F. Smith, <i>The Smoke Signal</i>, The Tucson Corral of the Westerners, No. 17, Spring 1868, Tucson, Arizona, p. 150.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Contract with the Overland Mail Company</i>, Letter from The Postmaster General, 46th Congress, 3d Session, Senate, Ex. Doc. No. 21. This government document is thirty-seven pages long for the six-year contract made with John Butterfield and includes all the variations made to the contract. It should also be noted that the Pony Express was made part of the Overland Mail Company contract on March 12, 1861.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ken Wheeling, <i>Overland Journal</i>, Winter 2005-2006. Volume 23, Number 4, “The Abbot, Downing & Company’s Famous Thirty Stagecoaches: The Wells Fargo & Company Order, October 8, 1867,” pp. 142-157. This article is about the first order ever made for stagecoaches by Wells, Fargo & Co. Wheeling is considered to be the foremost authority concerning the history of Concord stages.”</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ralph Moody, <i>Stagecoach West</i>, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. This book is reprinted from the original 1967 edition by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. Noel M. Loomis, <i>Wells Fargo</i>, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1968. W. Turrentine Jackson, <i>The California Historical Society Quarterly</i>, Vol. XLV, No. 4, December 1966, A New Look at Wells Fargo, Stagecoaches and the Pony Express, pp. 291-324. Jackson was a paid consultant for Wells, Fargo & Co. In 1968 a complete and clear rebuttal was made by Waddell F. Smith, the grandson of one of the founders of the Pony Express, to Jackson’s article stating that there was no ownership by Wells, Fargo & Co. of the Overland Mail Company. Waddell F. Smith, <i>The Smoke Signal</i>, The Tucson Corral of the Westerners, No. 17, Spring 1868, Tucson, Arizona.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Moody, Stagecoach West</i>, p. 205.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gerald T. 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