Butler Ives

Butler Ives

Butler Ives was born January 31, 1830 to Butler Ives Sr. and Olive Hall Morse Sheffield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the youngest of ten children; Educated at the University of Michigan; he died December, 1872 near Vallejo, California and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan.

His greatest work consisted of pioneer engineering, surveying and locating the line of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads between San Francisco and Salt Lake City, working under Leland Stanford and Samuel S. Montague, chief engineer. He was contracted with locating and surveying of the boundary line between the Nevada Territory and the State of California -- running south and southeasterly from Oregon.

The Ives papers in general, running back to 1754, together with the old family bible are deposited for safekeeping with the Clarence Burton Historical Society, Detroit.


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