Edward Hubert Butler Sr.

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Edward Hubert Butler I (1850 - March 9, 1914) was the founder of the Buffalo Evening News in 1873.[1]

Biography[]

He was born in 1850 in LeRoy, Genesee County, New York and attended local schools.

His news career began with the local paper (in Le Roy, New York), then moved on to Scranton Times as city editor and the same position at .

Butler moved to Buffalo in 1873 to start the news and later the in 1879.

He was the father of Edward Hubert Butler Jr., who was publisher and editor of the Evening News as well as owner of two local radio stations.

Butlter Sr. married Mary Elizabeth Barber in 1871, who died in 1893.

Butler died in Buffalo, New York on March 9, 1914.[1] His publishing business was left to his son.

Politics[]

Butler was a Republican and involved in state politics (with the Board of Electors of the State of New York). He was a presidential elector in the 1896[2] and 1900 presidential elections.[3] He was a delegate to the 1908 Republican National Convention.[4]

Legacy[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Edward H. Butler, Publisher, Dead. Proprietor Of The Buffalo Evening News Succumbs At His Home, Aged 63". The New York Times. March 12, 1914. Retrieved 2010-09-23. Edward H. Butler, proprietor of The Buffalo Evening News, died to-night. Butler had been ill for six weeks, and his death ...
  2. ^ Proceedings of the Electoral College of the State of New York, January 11th, 1897. Albany. 1897. p. 29. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu54374480.
  3. ^ "State Electors Cast The Ballot". Buffalo Evening News. XLI (77). 14 January 1901. p. 1.
  4. ^ Blumenberg, Milton W. (1908). Official Report of the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Republican National Convention Held in Chicago, Illinois June 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1908. Columbus, Ohio: Press of H. J. Heer. p. 70.
  5. ^ "E. H. Butler Library". State University of New York College at Buffalo website. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
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