Butterfield, John

Butterfield, John, 1801-69, American stagecoach proprietor and expressman, b. near Albany, N.Y. Beginning as a stage driver out of Albany, he rose to ownership of a large network of stage lines. He helped to merge his express company with others to form (1850) the American Express Company. In 1857, when Congress established the overland mail route to Los Angeles, Butterfield was awarded the mail contract. He organized the service on the 2,800-mi (4,500-km) southern route efficiently and continued it until 1861, when the stages were moved to the central route. He also promoted the development of telegraph lines and railroads, and in 1865 he was elected mayor of Utica, N.Y.

Butterfield may refer to:

Places

In the United Kingdom:

• Butterfield Green, Luton

In the United States:

• Butterfield, Missouri
• Butterfield, Minnesota
• Butterfield, Texas
• Butterfield Township, Michigan
• Butterfield Township, Minnesota

People

• Alexander Butterfield , FAA Administrator, Watergate figure
• Daniel Butterfield, Union general, "Taps" composer
• Danny Butterfield, English footballer
• Deborah Butterfield (born 1949), U.S. artist
• Floyd Butterfield, Ethanol plant designer
• G. K. Butterfield, member of U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
• Herbert Butterfield, historian
• James Butterfield, Engineer inventor of Colour-Tel
• Jim Butterfield, computer programmer
• John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (1920–2000), British medical researcher and administrator
• John Warren Butterfield, founder of Butterfield Overland Mail
• Paul Butterfield, musician
• Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr
• Tyler Butterfield, Bermudian cyclist and triathlete
• William Butterfield, architect
• William Butterfield (auctioneer), founder of auction house Butterfield & Butterfield

Fiction

• Butterfield, fictional town in Kansas in L. Frank Baum's 1909 novel The Road to Oz
• Butterfield, fictional butler of Watkyn Bassett in Wodehouse's Jeeves stories

Other uses

• Bank of Butterfield, an international bank based in Bermuda
• Butterfield & Butterfield, a large auction house based in San Francisco
• BUtterfield 8, a 1960 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
• Butterfield Overland Mail an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.