When I was doing some family research a few years ago I noticed some photographs in the family collection of Alaska referencing the Butterfields who were missionaries to the Territory of Alaska back in the 1940s or 1950s. It wasn't clear who the Butterfields were or what their connection might be if any to the Butterfield cousins from Iowa. No one ever mentioned their existence to me so obviously there is no way that I can formulate any sort of commentary on persons of whose existence I am not aware.