Carey Wilbur Butterworth was born in Petersburg, Virginia on 22 October 1868. He was the son of Joseph Wilbur Butterworth
and Martha Thomas Southall. He married 1) Ida Burns Little (1870-1905) on 23 June 1892, and 2) Mamie Young Little (1879-1973)
on 19 June 1907. Butterworth was employed by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad for over fifty years. He died
in Richmond on 5 December 1949 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery.
Papers, 1890-1947, of Carey Wilbur Butterworth (1868-1949) relating to his work as an agent for the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad at Doswell station in Hanover County, and later at Milford station in Caroline County, Virginia. The
collection includes correspondence, much of it with William D. Duke (1873-1951), company general manager, and concerns employee
hiring, wages, job performance, and working conditions at the two stations. There are also accounts and receipts, applications
for weekly settlements, cartoons and drawings, certificates, check rolls, employee pay receipts, freight bills and bills of
lading, monthly accounts current, Order of Railroad Telegraphers materials, remittances, and retirement benefit information.