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Samuel Josiah “Sam” Butterfield

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Samuel Josiah “Sam” Butterfield

Birth
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4 May 2013 (aged 23)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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Beloved son of Fox Butterfield and Elizabeth Mehren. Brother of the late Emily Eaton Butterfield. Graduate of Hampshire College. Journalist and editor. He died one day short of a year after being injured in an accident on the Hampshire College campus which left him paralyzed.

He is missed.

Information below is from http://dailycollegian.com/2014/04/28/senior-column-mary-reines/

Sam Butterfield grew up in Hingham, Mass. He was a pitcher on his high school's baseball team, the Hingham Harbormen, and an editor at his school's newspaper, The Harborlight. Sam attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he worked at The Maneater, the school's bi-weekly student newspaper. After a semester, he transferred to Hampshire College where he worked at The Climax, Hampshire's weekly online publication. He also started working at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, where the bylaws were changed so that he, a Hampshire student, could acquire a staff position. He worked his way up from news reporter to general editor, a position created especially for him. Sam also wrote articles for the Hingham Journal, the Springfield Republican and the Los Angeles Times.
Beloved son of Fox Butterfield and Elizabeth Mehren. Brother of the late Emily Eaton Butterfield. Graduate of Hampshire College. Journalist and editor. He died one day short of a year after being injured in an accident on the Hampshire College campus which left him paralyzed.

He is missed.

Information below is from http://dailycollegian.com/2014/04/28/senior-column-mary-reines/

Sam Butterfield grew up in Hingham, Mass. He was a pitcher on his high school's baseball team, the Hingham Harbormen, and an editor at his school's newspaper, The Harborlight. Sam attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism where he worked at The Maneater, the school's bi-weekly student newspaper. After a semester, he transferred to Hampshire College where he worked at The Climax, Hampshire's weekly online publication. He also started working at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, where the bylaws were changed so that he, a Hampshire student, could acquire a staff position. He worked his way up from news reporter to general editor, a position created especially for him. Sam also wrote articles for the Hingham Journal, the Springfield Republican and the Los Angeles Times.

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