Hezekiah Butterworth

Hezekiah Butterworth (1839–1905) was an American writer and editor from Warren, Rhode Island. For about a quarter of a century he worked on The Youth's Companion, the Boston magazine for young readers, and he became known for the Zigzag Journeys, a long series of travel books for children that mixed geography, history and legend. He also wrote historical tales such as The Log School-House on the Columbia and In the Boyhood of Lincoln, books of verse and hymns, and popular works on the stories behind famous hymns. His writing was moral, patriotic and aimed at the family reader.