"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.
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W. H. BUTLER, M.D., prominent physician and surgeon of Morgantown, was born
January 15, 1846, in Jennings County, Ind., and is the fourth of the six
children of George and Eliza (Stott) Butler, natives of Kentucky, and of
Irish and English descent respectively. They removed to Bartholomew
County, Ind., where our subject received some education, worked on the farm,
and grew to manhood, having sufficient money to pay for three years' tuition
at Hartsville. December 4, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and
Twentieth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, served at the battles of
Dalton, Marietta, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville
and Kingston. He was discharged January 8, 1866,after which he prepared
himself for teaching; taught two terms; became salesman in a drug store,
and began the study of medicine under Dr. McLeod, of Barnesvillle, which he
continued two years, then attended lectures at the Indiana Medical
Institute, at Indianapolis, and graduated in 1879, having previously
practiced at Middlebury, where he continued for a time. May 31, 1877, he
married Miss Jennie Horner, with a result of two children--Chloe A. and
George J. In 1880, Dr. Butler came to Morgantown, in which place he has
established a good and growing practice. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and an active Republican. Mrs. Butler is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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