Background
Sarah Hildreth was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, the daughter of Doctor Israel Hildreth, a noted physician of the Lowell area, and Dolly Jones.
Sarah Hildreth was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, the daughter of Doctor Israel Hildreth, a noted physician of the Lowell area, and Dolly Jones.
She was the wife of Benjamin Franklin Butler, a controversial political general in the American Civil War and later a Congressman and Governor of Massachusetts. At sixteen, she went to Boston for formal training in dramatics, performing all over the country. Sarah Hildreth Butler died on April 8, 1876, at the age of 59, and is buried at her family"s private cemetery in Lowell.