ELIZABETH, born near Denbigh, was five years old on coming to America. She early learned to love the cause of religion and reform, and when about fifteen, was received by father into the Congregational Church at Winfield.
At seventeen, she entered the Ladies' Seminary of Rev. H. H. Kellogg, at Clinton, N. Y., a decidedly anti-slavery school. She was assistant pupil during her course of study, and after graduating remained as teacher, both with Mr. Kellogg and when the Seminary became a denominational school of the Free Baptists, for gentlemen and ladies. The last three years she was lady Principal.
She was a superior teacher and disciplinarian, and a conscientious, earnest Christian worker; one who sought the moral and spiritual improvement of her pupils no less than their intellectual culture. She was remarkable for the clearness of her illustrations and the great enthusiasm of her classes. Even now, her former pupils refer to her teaching with great animation and affection, saying that, in mathematics, they never had met her equal.
November 14, 1844, she married Rev. J. J. Butler, Professor of Theology in Whitestown Seminary. Here they resided ten years. In the Morning Star of April 10, 1878, her husband says of her: "She well filled her position. She readily made the acquaintance of the theological students, and contributed much to make their labors agreeable and successful. Few ministers and students interested in Whitestown Seminary, at that time, do not give her a grateful place in their memory.
