Died in Irvington, Marion, Indiana, USA
Read the book by Barbara Butler Davis and Scot Butler:
"Affectionately Yours: The Civil War Home Front--Letters of the Ovid Butler Family."
Scot had been a student at Northwestern Christian before leaving to fight with the Union Army at age 17. Serving for the duration of the Civil War, Scot returned to his studies in Indianapolis, graduated from Northwestern Christian in 1868, and again with a master's degree in 1870, before studying abroad in Germany.
He returned home in 1876 to teach Latin at the Irvington college with whom he now shared a name. He and his wife Julia had five children. After many years as a Latin professor, Scot served for 14 years as president of Butler College (1891-1904 & 1906-1907) and later on the Board of Directors, before his passing in 1931.
Read the book by Barbara Butler Davis and Scot Butler:
"Affectionately Yours: The Civil War Home Front--Letters of the Ovid Butler Family."
Scot had been a student at Northwestern Christian before leaving to fight with the Union Army at age 17. Serving for the duration of the Civil War, Scot returned to his studies in Indianapolis, graduated from Northwestern Christian in 1868, and again with a master's degree in 1870, before studying abroad in Germany.
He returned home in 1876 to teach Latin at the Irvington college with whom he now shared a name. He and his wife Julia had five children. After many years as a Latin professor, Scot served for 14 years as president of Butler College (1891-1904 & 1906-1907) and later on the Board of Directors, before his passing in 1931.
Died in Irvington, Marion, Indiana, USA
Read the book by Barbara Butler Davis and Scot Butler:
"Affectionately Yours: The Civil War Home Front--Letters of the Ovid Butler Family."
Scot had been a student at Northwestern Christian before leaving to fight with the Union Army at age 17. Serving for the duration of the Civil War, Scot returned to his studies in Indianapolis, graduated from Northwestern Christian in 1868, and again with a master's degree in 1870, before studying abroad in Germany.
He returned home in 1876 to teach Latin at the Irvington college with whom he now shared a name. He and his wife Julia had five children. After many years as a Latin professor, Scot served for 14 years as president of Butler College (1891-1904 & 1906-1907) and later on the Board of Directors, before his passing in 1931.
Read the book by Barbara Butler Davis and Scot Butler:
"Affectionately Yours: The Civil War Home Front--Letters of the Ovid Butler Family."
Scot had been a student at Northwestern Christian before leaving to fight with the Union Army at age 17. Serving for the duration of the Civil War, Scot returned to his studies in Indianapolis, graduated from Northwestern Christian in 1868, and again with a master's degree in 1870, before studying abroad in Germany.
He returned home in 1876 to teach Latin at the Irvington college with whom he now shared a name. He and his wife Julia had five children. After many years as a Latin professor, Scot served for 14 years as president of Butler College (1891-1904 & 1906-1907) and later on the Board of Directors, before his passing in 1931.
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