William Allen Butler

William Allen Butler (February 20, 1825, Albany, New York – September 9, 1902 [Herringshaw, T. W., "Herringshaw's national library of American biography", 5 vols, 1909-14.] ) was an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires.

Son of the poet and lawyer Benjamin Franklin Butler, Allen graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1843 and became a New York lawyer."Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography", 6 vols, 1888] Butler eventually headed the firm of Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, and served as president of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of the City of New York. On March 21, 1850 he married Mary R. Marshall. [Hall, H., "America's successful men of affairs", 2 vols, 1895-96.]

He contributed travel writing and comic writing to the "Literary World", a series on 'The Cities of Art and the Early Artists' to the "Art Union Bulletin" and also wrote for the "Democratic Review".Duyckinck, E. A. & Duyckinck, G. L., "Cyclopaedia of American Literature", 2 vols, 1856] His most famous satirical poem, "Nothing to Wear", was first published anonymously in "Harper's Weekly" in 1857, though Butler was forced to reveal his name after someone else claimed authorship. ["The national cyclopaedia of American biography", 11 vols, 1898-1909]

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