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Butler—Memorial Sketch. 
In 1870 he was a charter-member of the “ Wisconsin Academy 
of Sciences, Arts and Letters.” As its first treasurer and long 
afterward his cooperation was valuable. In all his relations he 
may be best described as a humanitarian. Hence, as a boy in 
Ohio, he became a sort of conductor on the underground rail¬ 
road. He was a champion of women’s rights;—before Dr. Berg 
was heard of he had " regarded the life of his beast. ” He was 
a good Samaritan to many who had fallen helpless by the way- 
side, and whom priest and levite, despairing of lifting up, had 
passed by on the other side. 
In regard to religion while his faith was small his hope and 
charity were large. He never ceased to be a seeker of light 
concerning the spiritual, eternal, heavenly and divine. “ The 
world is my country and to do good is my religion ” was a say¬ 
ing often in his mouth. 
While diligent and successful in his business as a dealer in 
real estate he was never so buried in it as to have no leisure 
hours for the best books of the best authors in widely devious 
paths of literature. 
The immediate cause of his death was heart failure, which 
followed after chronic asthma and insomnia during six previous 
months. It was in the last half of his eighty-second year 
“ When, like a clock worn out with eating time, 
The weary wheels of life at last stood still.” 
James D. Butler. 
Madison , Wis. 
SIMEON MILLS. 
Our late associate Simeon Mills was born February 14, 1810, 
and died June 1, 1895. His birth was at Norfolk in the state 
of Connecticut, but he was brought up in northeastern Ohio, to 
which his parents removed in his infancy. In the fall of 1836 
he went west on an exploring tour and was in Belmont during 
the legislative session there when, on November 28, Madison 
was decided upon as the site of the territorial capital. 
He came to Madison the next season. On June 10th, 1837, he 
walked alone from Janesville to the site where Madison was to 
