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I came up to see if there were any Butternuts in Butler county.

From The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by Howard, James Quay

He still kept his wits a-working; the bogus "Butternuts" still ate prisoners' rations; and the red flame still brought out black thoughts on the white letter-paper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

Butternuts grow over an extended range which makes them the most northern of all our native wild nut trees, although their nuts do not mature as far north as hazelnuts do.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl

Butternuts Butternuts grow native in Missouri and Arkansas.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Edwin, along with the numerous other brothers who will shortly enter the picture, was a son of Samuel Comstock, of Butternuts, Otsego County, New York.

From History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Shaw, Robert B.