James Austin Butterfield

{{Short description|English-American composer (1837–1891)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = James Austin Butterfield | image = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = James Austin Butterfield | alias = J.A. Butterfield | birth_date = {{birth date|1897|5|2|mf=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1985|4|8|1897|5|2}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | origin = Hertfordshire, England | instrument = Piano | genre = Tin Pan Alley | occupation = Composer | years_active = | label = | associated_acts = Haven Gillespie | website = }}

[[File:When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Ditson sheet music cover).jpg|thumb|right|Sheet music cover for ''When You and I Were Young, Maggie'' (Oliver Ditson & Co. version of cover)]] '''James Austin Butterfield''' (May 18, 1837 – July 6, 1891) was an English-American composer. His best-known composition is ''When You and I Were Young, Maggie'', first published in 1866 (lyrics by George W. Johnson). Butterfield was born in England in 1837 and emigrated to the United States in 1856.<ref name="ref1">Fuld, James J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EVninY59ul0C&pg=PA643 The book of world-famous music: classical, popular, and folk], p. 643 (Dover, 5th ed., Revised, 2000)</ref><ref name="longbio1">Matthews, W.S.B. (assoc ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=KKMNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA647 A hundred years of music in America], p.647-50 (1889, 1900 ed.)</ref><ref name="essay1">Studwell, William Emmett. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zw0KAQAAMAAJ&q=%22james+a.+butterfield%22+ They also wrote: evaluative essays on lesser-known popular American songwriters prior to the rock era], p. 206 (2000)</ref>

He was also the second president of the Music Teachers National Association, in 1878.<ref name="mtna1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMIJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA260 Volume of proceedings of the Music Teachers' National Association], p. 260 (1911)</ref>

James A. Butterfield died in Chicago, Illinois and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.<ref>"Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7NT-QTP : accessed 27 May 2012), James Austin Butterfield, 1891.</ref>

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