William Allen Butler
b. 1825 – d. 1902 · 24 books
Biography
Butler was the son of U.S. Attorney-General Benjamin Franklin Butler and the father of William Allen Butler Jr. All three were leading figures in the New York legal community. In addition to his writings on legal topics, William Sr. wrote fiction, history, and humour both in poetry and in prose.[1] He was a founding member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.[2]
[1]: http://books.google.ca/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&lpg=PA66&pg=PA65 in American National Biography
[2]: https://archive.org/stream/memorialofwillia00holt memorial
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[1]: http://books.google.ca/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&lpg=PA66&pg=PA65 in American National Biography
[2]: https://archive.org/stream/memorialofwillia00holt memorial
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Books by William Allen Butler
Domesticus
Miss M'Flimsey, or, Nothing to wear
The animal book
Martin Van Buren, lawyer, stat
Martin Van Buren, lawyer, statesman and man
A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865
Mrs. Limber's raffle
Rien à mettre!
Rien à mettre!
Book of the family and lineal descendants of Medad Butler, late of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, N.Y.
Mrs. Limber's raffle; or, A church fair and its victims
Sunday laws
Sunday laws
Oberammergau 1890
Oberammergau 1890
The revision of the statutes of the state of New York and the revisers
Mark Twain's Library of Humor
A year's legislation, state an
A year's legislation, state and federal, 1885-1886
Samuel J. Tilden
Sea scribblings, b a souvenir
Sea scribblings, b a souvenir of the "Bothnia" (June 1-11, 1881), and of the "Gallia" (October 8-18, 1881)
Our great metropolis: its grow
Our great metropolis: its growth, misgovernment, and needs
Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Memorial sketch of the life and literary labors of Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Lawyer and client: their relation, rights, and duties
Memorial of Charles H. Marshall
Two millions
Nothing to Wear: An Episode in City Life
Barnum's Parnassus