A place to add any information regarding this firm, their jewelry, their silver, their members or anything else to document their work.
Bio about jeweler/inventor Horace Seely Butterfield: https://www.jtenlen.drizzlehosting.com/ ... rfield.txt
Information relating to Butterfield Brothers Portland OR
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1898 Jeweler's Circular regarding Butterfield Bros. handling the order for a courthouse clock tower in Eugene Oregon: https://books.google.com/books?id=j3MoA ... ry&f=false
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History of the lone survivor Butterfield Cottage of 1893, now serving as a museum in Seaside Oregon: https://www.seasideoregonmuseum.com/Museum/cottage.html
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1898 Patent filing by assignor to Butterfield Bros. Portland for the "handle of spoons": https://books.google.com/books?id=3tg1A ... on&f=false
Note: A fancy 1905 Sterling Souvenir teaspoon for the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland is found marked Butterfield Bros. where a maker mark might be expected...perhaps some spoon patents might reveal whether this firm actually engaged in the manufacturing of silver items, rather than just retailing.
Note: A fancy 1905 Sterling Souvenir teaspoon for the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland is found marked Butterfield Bros. where a maker mark might be expected...perhaps some spoon patents might reveal whether this firm actually engaged in the manufacturing of silver items, rather than just retailing.
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Geneological record, Item 24 on Page 43 (large pdf) pinpoints how Horace Greely Butterfield came to reside in Eugene Oregon on a farm (the city where he learnt his trade): https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/ ... 000270.pdf
Re: Information relating to Butterfield Brothers Portland OR
Geneological record, Item 24 on Page 43 (large pdf) pinpoints how Horace Seely Butterfield came to reside in Eugene Oregon on a farm (the city where he learnt his trade): https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/ ... 000270.pdf
Re: Information relating to Butterfield Brothers Portland OR
Butterfield Bros. - Portland, OR - 1897
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DEATH OF H. S. BUTTERFIELD
Portland, Ore., Jeweler Passes Away After an Illness of Three Weeks
A telegram received in New York last week announced the death of Horace S. Butterfield, of the firm of Butterfield Bros., dealers in jewelry, diamonds and materials, Portland, Ore. The death of Mr. Butterfield occurred on Thursday, April 5 and came after an illness of three weeks. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Saturday. Mr. Butterfield was well known in the jewelry trade throughout the country.
Many years ago, with his brother, Albert E., he formed the present firm of Butterfield Bros., and through diligent work succeeded in building up one of the foremost jobbing houses in the trade in this country. Mr. Butterfield was of a congenial personality and was well liked by everyone.
He enjoyed a national reputation as a mechanical genius and had patented a number of useful articles. One of his most successful and best known devices is an automatic astronomical calculator which renders unnecessary, long and tedious computations by nautical tables. This invention has met with great success in the trade and is at present being handled by one of the largest watch concerns in this country.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th April 1917
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Portland, Ore., Jeweler Passes Away After an Illness of Three Weeks
A telegram received in New York last week announced the death of Horace S. Butterfield, of the firm of Butterfield Bros., dealers in jewelry, diamonds and materials, Portland, Ore. The death of Mr. Butterfield occurred on Thursday, April 5 and came after an illness of three weeks. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Saturday. Mr. Butterfield was well known in the jewelry trade throughout the country.
Many years ago, with his brother, Albert E., he formed the present firm of Butterfield Bros., and through diligent work succeeded in building up one of the foremost jobbing houses in the trade in this country. Mr. Butterfield was of a congenial personality and was well liked by everyone.
He enjoyed a national reputation as a mechanical genius and had patented a number of useful articles. One of his most successful and best known devices is an automatic astronomical calculator which renders unnecessary, long and tedious computations by nautical tables. This invention has met with great success in the trade and is at present being handled by one of the largest watch concerns in this country.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th April 1917
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Mrs. H. S. Butterfield, widow of Horace S. Butterfield, who established the wholesale business still under the family name of Butterfield Bros. passed away not long ago while visiting in Hood River. She had been making her home in Portland and is survived by Mrs. Thomas Young, a daughter.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th July 1922
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th July 1922
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The new home of Butterfield Bros. in the Mohawk building, Portland, Ore., is now completed and the firm will move this week.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th September 1903
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th September 1903
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PORTLAND, ORE
R. W. Applegate, formerly with the E. W. Reynolds Co., Los Angeles, and well known among the members of the California and middle western trade, is now representing Butterfield Bros. in Oregon and Washington.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
George H. Butterfield, of Butterfield & Co., has just returned from a combined pleasure and business trip to San Francisco. While away he attended the Western Material Dealers’ Association meeting which was held at the commercial club, July 18.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
Attention has been called to a mistake in the news item of July 2, announcing the incorporation of Butterfield Bros. & Co., in the Mohawk building. The Butterfield Bros. & Co. mentioned are not the Butterfield Bros., jewelers, and the confusion made through a similarity in names.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
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R. W. Applegate, formerly with the E. W. Reynolds Co., Los Angeles, and well known among the members of the California and middle western trade, is now representing Butterfield Bros. in Oregon and Washington.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
George H. Butterfield, of Butterfield & Co., has just returned from a combined pleasure and business trip to San Francisco. While away he attended the Western Material Dealers’ Association meeting which was held at the commercial club, July 18.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
Attention has been called to a mistake in the news item of July 2, announcing the incorporation of Butterfield Bros. & Co., in the Mohawk building. The Butterfield Bros. & Co. mentioned are not the Butterfield Bros., jewelers, and the confusion made through a similarity in names.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th July 1924
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