Beautiful Ben Butler

[John Hartwell]

Wasn't quite sure quite sure where to put this, but I thought I'd inform CWT's numerous Ben Butler aficionados of the following:

Ellenor Simmons has a Pinterest page entirely dedicated to Ben Butler and his family.

And, the University Massachusetts at Lowell, has a huge collection of Ben Butler political cartoons online. That pretty face was just so "photogenic."

Treat yourselves!

jno

 

[Northern Light]

It is interesting to know that Butler's daughter, Blanche, did not look like her daddy. She married General Adelbert Ames. Butler's granddaughter also did not inherit Ben's good looks, and was really quite a beautiful woman. She became a major supporter of women suffrage and of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control for Women. Maybe one of her kids looked like grandpa. George Plimpton is a great-great grandson of Ben's.

 

[Northern Light]

Ben's granddaughter Blanche Ames Ames

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Well . . . in all honesty . . . Spoon's Butler couldn't help the face he was given at birth.

However, I'll give his granddaughter Blanche credit . . . she did bring beauty back into the family.

I only wish she would have married "up".

IHMO . . . Adelbert Ames was a questionable partner from the start of that relationship.

 

[ole]

Ya know, when Ben was a younger man, he might have been quite attractive. After all, he did have a future, which was also attractive and still is. Let those among us who look like Clark Gable or Vivian Leigh speak up.

Most of you have a compadre with whom you are fairly happy. Would it have been that much different then?

Humans are strange animals. They tend to react to the same stimuli in the same way. A man had to have a woman and a woman had to have a man. I wish I could say that ggma was gorgeous, but she looked like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, but ggpa needed a wife and she was about the only one available.

Today, we have the luxury of arm candy, but there is no substitute for a Dear One. Your buddy. Your wife. Or, on the distaff side, your buddy, your husband.

It wasn't always thus. You took what was available because that the was the way it was.

Now Ben, about 10 years before, might have been attractive. (Like she had a choice.) But he was fine pick for probable, comfortable living. And then we ignore that his wife might have genuinely liked him.

Ben, by himself alone in the house she had made, might have been an ideal husband. We do him a disservice by ridiculing him. Mrs. Butler certainly didn't.

 

[Northern Light]

Well . . . in all honesty . . . Spoon's Butler couldn't help the face he was given at birth.

However, I'll give his granddaughter Blanche credit . . . she did bring beauty back into the family.

I only wish she would have married "up".

IHMO . . . Adelbert Ames was a questionable partner from the start of that relationship.

It is confusing, but Ben's daughter, Blanche, married Adelbert Ames. His granddaughter, also Blanche, married Oakes Ames (no relation) who was a botany professor at Harvard.

 

[Northern Light]

Ya know, when Ben was a younger man, he might have been quite attractive. After all, he did have a future, which was also attractive and still is. Let those among us who look like Clark Gable or Vivian Leigh speak up.

Most of you have a compadre with whom you are fairly happy. Would it have been that much different then?

Humans are strange animals. They tend to react to the same stimuli in the same way. A man had to have a woman and a woman had to have a man. I wish I could say that ggma was gorgeous, but she looked like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, but ggpa needed a wife and she was about the only one available.

Today, we have the luxury of arm candy, but there is no substitute for a Dear One. Your buddy. Your wife. Or, on the distaff side, your buddy, your husband.

It wasn't always thus. You took what was available because that the was the way it was.

Now Ben, about 10 years before, might have been attractive. (Like she had a choice.) But he was fine pick for probable, comfortable living. And then we ignore that his wife might have genuinely liked him.

Ben, by himself alone in the house she had made, might have been an ideal husband. We do him a disservice by ridiculing him. Mrs. Butler certainly didn't.

Consider me chastened by your scolding, Ole. In my defense, however, even you must admit that he does make such a tempting target.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Today, we have the luxury of arm candy

I think perhaps a new thread at Campfire Chat? Curious minds would like to know more!