Major General Daniel Adams Butterfield (b 31 December 1831 -- d 17 July 1901) was the son of John Butterfield, who with Wells and Fargo formed the American Express Company. Daniel's wife purchased 163 acres just south of the Payne property in 1866, and they used the place for summer residence until she died in 1879. Butterfield remarried in 1886, and in 1893 relocated to Cold Spring. He had sold the bulk of his farm to John Mulford in 1882, and in 1893 he donated the last 13 acres of his property to Ascension Church, where he was a vestryman and represented the Church as a lay delegate at the Diocesan Convention from 1873 to 1893. Butterfield rejoined American Express after he left the Army in 1870.