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Butterfield Overland Mail Stations
Butterfield may refer to: * Butterfield (surname) * Butterfield Market Places * Butterfield, Dublin, a suburb and townland of Dublin, Ireland * Butterfield Green, Luton, England United States * Butterfield, Minnesota * Butterfield, Missouri * Butterfield, Texas * Butterfield Township, Michigan * Butterfield Township, Minnesota * Butterfield, Illinois Fiction * Butterfield, a fictional town in Kansas in L. Frank Baum's 1909 novel '' The Road to Oz'' * Butterfield, a fictional butler of Watkyn Bassett in Wodehouse's Jeeves stories * Brian Butterfield, overweight salesman character from '' The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' Other uses * Butterfield Bank, an international bank based in Bermuda * Butterfield & Butterfield, a large auction house based in San Francisco * '' BUtterfield 8'', a 1960 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey based on a novel of the same name by John O'Hara * Butterfield Overland Mail, a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield (surname)
Butterfield is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Porter Butterfield (born 1926), official in the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal * Asa Butterfield (born 1997), English actor * Benjamin Butterfield, British immigrant who was the founder of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, first Butterfield in America * Billy Butterfield (aka Charles William Butterfield) (1917–1988), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader * Brian James Butterfield (born 1958), Third base coach and infield instructor for the Boston Red Sox * Daniel Adams Butterfield (1831–1901), United States Civil War Union general, "Taps" composer * Danny Butterfield (aka Daniel Paul Butterfield) (born 1979), English footballer * Dave Butterfield (born 1954), American football player * Deborah Kay Butterfield (born 1949), U.S. artist * Don Kiethly Butterfield (1923–2006), American tuba player * George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (born 1947), member of U.S. House of Representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield, Illinois
Butterfield is an unincorporated community spanning Milton Township and York Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Butterfield is located north of Butterfield Road, west of Finley Road, south (and just north) of 22nd Street, and east of the East Branch of the DuPage River. It is nestled in between the communities of Glen Ellyn, Downers Grove Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. It is a south-west suburb of Chicago. The village is located between I-88 and I-55. ..., and Lombard. Originally named just “Butterfield”, the subdivision was informally renamed “Butterfield East” due to the creation in 1965 of the “Butterfield West” neighborhood in the eastern edge of Glen Ellyn, but it is usually still referred to as just “Butterfield”. Butterfield contains 833 homes, and has approximately 4,636 residents, based on the 2010 Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers and U.S. Mail from two eastern termini, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California. The routes from each eastern terminus met at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then continued through Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, and California ending in San Francisco.Goddard Bailey, Special Agent to Hon. A.V. Brown. P.M., Washington, D.C., The Senate of the United States, Second Session, Thirty-Fifth Congress, 1858–'59, Postmaster General, Appendix, "Great Overland Mail", Washington, D. C., October 18, 1858.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c109481050;view=1up;seq=745 On March 3, 1857, Congress authorized the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BUtterfield 8
''BUtterfield 8'' is a 1960 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role. The film was based on a 1935 novel of the same name by John O'Hara. Plot Gloria Wandrous wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett, and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, she finds her dress was torn, and takes Liggett's wife Emily's mink coat to cover herself, scrawling "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. She orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he calls. Gloria visits a childhood friend, pianist Steve Carpenter, who chastises her for wasting her life on one-night stands, but agrees to ask his girlfriend Norma to lend her a dress. Gloria leaves, and Norma tells Steve he must choose between Gloria and her. As Norma leaves, he calls, "Gloria, don't go like this." "My name is Norma," she corrects. Liggett ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield & Butterfield
Bonhams and Butterfield was a large American auction house, founded in 1865 by William Butterfield in San Francisco. It was purchased in 1999 from Bernard Osher by online auctioneer eBay for $260 million. In 2002, it was acquired from eBay by British auctioneer Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought to ... and operated under the name Bonhams & Butterfields for about ten years. It now just goes by Bonhams. References External links * EBay American auction houses American companies established in 1865 Retail companies established in 1865 1999 mergers and acquisitions 2002 mergers and acquisitions {{US-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield Bank
Butterfield, officially The Bank of N. T. Butterfield & Son Limited, is a bank founded and based in Bermuda. It provides services to clients from Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey, where its principal banking operations are located, and The Bahamas, Switzerland, Singapore and the United Kingdom, where it offers specialized financial services. Banking services comprise deposit, cash management and lending for individual, business and institutional clients. Wealth management services are composed of trust, private banking, asset management and custody. In Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Guernsey, Butterfield offers both banking and wealth management. In The Bahamas, Singapore and Switzerland, Butterfield offers select wealth management services. In the UK, Butterfield offers residential property lending. In Jersey, it offers banking and wealth management services. Butterfield is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: NTB) and the Bermuda Stock Exchang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' is a British sketch comedy show written by and starring Peter Serafinowicz. Its debut was on 4 October 2007 at 21:30 on BBC Two as part of the newly launched "Thursdays Are Funny" brand on the channel and Thursdays on ABC2. On 1 August 2008, American cable network G4 began broadcasting the show as part of their "Duty Free TV" block of international programming. The BBC decided not to produce a second series. A Christmas Special was aired on 23 December 2008. Background The show was commissioned after Serafinowicz posted ''O! News'', a parody of ''E! News'', on YouTube, under the name "Immenstrides". Robert Popper, who co-wrote, and co-starred in, both seasons of ''Look Around You'' with Serafinowicz, co-wrote four episodes of ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' and was a programme consultant for the entire series. Format The show was a mixture of sketches based on parodies of British television, using Serafinowicz's and other actors' impressions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watkyn Bassett
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in " Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers postp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Oz
''The Road to Oz: In Which Is Related How Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter Met on an Enchanted Road and Followed it All the Way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.'' is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books. It was originally published on July 10, 1909 and documents the adventures of Dorothy Gale's fourth visit to the Land of Oz. The book was dedicated to Joslyn Stanton Baum, the author's first grandson, the child of Baum's eldest son Frank Joslyn Baum. Plot While Dorothy Gale is at home in Kansas one day, she and her pet dog Toto meet the Shaggy Man who comes walking past the Gale farm. He is a friendly, yet slightly senile hobo with an optimistic, care free mentality. He politely asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, which is the nearest town on the prairie. The girl agrees to show him the way, bringing her dog with her. Further on, the road splits into seven paths. They take the seventh one and soon find them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield Township, Minnesota
Butterfield Township is a township in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 297 at the 2000 census. History Butterfield Township was organized in 1872, and named for William Butterfield, a pioneer settler. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.62%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 297 people, 99 households, and 79 families residing in the township. The population density was 8.4 people per square mile (3.2/km2). There were 110 housing units at an average density of 3.1/sq mi (1.2/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 92.26% White, 2.02% Native American, 3.03% Asian, 2.69% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.40% of the population. There were 99 households, out of which 40.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.7% were married couples living together, 4.0% had a female householder with no husband presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield Market
Butterfield Market is an upscale grocery store with its original store located at 1114 Lexington Avenue. On September 2, 2020, it opened its second store located at 1150 Madison Avenue, also in the Upper East Side neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is named for the old telephone exchange name for the neighborhood, Butterfield 8. Butterfield cites a founding date of 1915 as a small grocery store, though an article in ''The New York Times'' cites its founding as a produce stand in 1926 at the corner of Lexington and 78th Street, across the street from its current first location. According to the ''Times'', it was founded by an Italian grocer whose name is lost to history. Neighborhood customers have included Brooke Astor, John D. Rockefeller, and Bette Davis. The market once flew in 100 boxes of strawberries for a Christmas party thrown by Davis. The fictional character Trudy Campbell on the television show ''Mad Men ''Mad Men'' is an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfield Township, Michigan
Butterfield Township is a civil township of Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 489. Communities * Butterfield is a small unincorporated community in the southeast portion of the township at . It is approximately three and a half miles south of Merritt on County Road 565 and the eastern terminus of County Road 584. A rural post office operated from October 30, 1895 until October 31, 1922. * Merritt is an unincorporated community in the northern part of the township on County Road 565 just south of M-55 at . * Edson Corners was a community and former post office in the township on the Muskegon River. It was named for Edson Witherell. The post office operated from August 21, 1878, until March 15, 1900. * The community of Falmouth is to the southwest, and the Falmouth post office with ZIP code 49632 also serves the southern portion Butterfield Township. Geography According to the United States Census Bure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
