Frederick. D. Butterfield
Sherbrooke Daily Record
- « The Village of Rock Island », Supplement of the S. D. R., 17 décembre 1901, 4 p.
- Colonel Frederick D. Butterfield
- Né à Rockingham (Vt.) le 14 mai 1838, le Colonel est président de la Butterfield & Co. Enrôlé en 1861, il combat lors de la Guerre civile et devient Capitaine dans l’armée américaine, puis Colonel dans la Garde nationale du Vermont. Après la guerre, de 1866 à 1872, il s’engage dans l’hôtellerie, puis dans la confection de machine à coudre.
Article du Stanstead Journal: « Pioneer Life on the Frontier », Feb., 1952 (biographical sketches)
- F. D. Butterfield: manufacturer of sewing machines in the old tannery building at the top of Foundry Hill.
- Est. Rock Island’s most important industry, the manufacture of machine tools.
Centenaire de Rock Island
- p. 3
- Butterfield & Co. started in 1879, Lewis Young and F. D. Butterfield.
- Located in the old foundry building on Railroad Street atop of Foundry Hill.
- Building demolished in 1969.
- 1913: Company sold to Union Twist Drill Co.
- Shortly after, new buildings built.
- Floor space more than doubled during WWII.
- 1949: Further expansion
- 1968: Purchased by Litton Industries Ltd.
- 1982: Closure
- Main employer in Rock Island for several years.
- Lay Whip factory
- Started in the old Libby building, then moved on the upper floor of the old Butterfield factory until 1901 when new factory was built on the bank of the river.
Bertha Tiffin, “The Manufactures of Rock Island”, in Stanstead College Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Feb. 1920.
- p. 10
- Butterfield: manufacture of taps, dies, reamers and drills
- By far the largest factory in town
Stanstead Journal, Feb. 23, 1933: “Talks on Local Industries”
- Taps and dies
- The manufacture of taps and dies followed the invention of Young’s Axle Cutter by Lewis Young
- Tool used by blacksmiths for turning back buggy axes
- Col. F. D. Butterfield entered into a partnership with Young in 1879-80.
- After that Henry Reece also became interested and the invention of the Reece screw plate was another forward step.
- The next step was the cut thread carbon steel tap, requiring an accuracy of from two to five thousandths of an inch
- Following this came the ground thread high-speed steel tap, in which an accuracy of half a thousand of an inch was demanded.
- Changes in methods of hardening and tempering
- First heated in sand and tempered by color
- Then came the heating of carbon steel in hot lead and drawing in oil
- Then hardened in electric furnaces with gas curtains which excludes everything but the necessary elements
The Who’s Who
- 1880: Col. Frederick Butterfield, Lewis Young, John Hay, and George Reece
- Co-founders of Butterfield Co. Ltd.
S.H.S. Collection
- BU. Butterfield Co., file 2 of 2. Album souvenir, The Butterfield Story, 1880-1980, 1980, 28 p.
- Document produit par la compagnie pour souligner le centenaire.
- Portraits des fondateurs de la compagnie (Young, F. D. et F. G. Butterfield) et photo de certains des premiers employés de la compagnie.
The Eastern Townships Business and Farmer's Directory, 1892
- p. 463
- Butterfield Frederick, D, (Butterfield & Co)
The Eastern Township Business & Farmer's Directory for 1888-89
- p. 147
- Butterfield F D, of Butterfield & Co
The Eastern Townships Gazetteer & Directory for the Years 1875-76
- p. 151
- BUTTERFIELD F D, (Morrill & Co.)
Documents visuels
F. D. Butterfield, Supplement from Sherbrooke Daily Record, 17 décembre 1901, p. 4. 
Col. F. D. Butterfield - Album-souvenir, The Butterfield Story, 1880-1980, 1980, p. 5.
