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Born 1857, Brown township
From Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901)
CHARLES F. BUTLER.
Charles F. Butler, president of the Springville Exchange Bank and a most capable financier and successful business man, is a native of this county, born on the old homestead in Brown township, December 8, 1857, and is the son of Joseph S. Butler, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. His boyhood and youth were spent ii])nn the farm, and his primary education, acquired in the schools of Springville, was supplemented by two years' attendance at Cornell College, in Mt. Wernon.
.After completing his education Mr. Butler returned home and engage in farming and raising, feeding and dealing in stock. A few years after his father established the Springville Exchange Bank he became connected with the same, and was in partnership with his father until the latter's death, when he succeeded to the business and estate. The capital stock has been increased from twenty-five to seventy-five thousand dollars, having the largest capital. of any bank in the county outside of Cedar Rapids. Besides his banking business Mr. Butler owns and operates several fine farms, and fatten for market several carloads of cattle annually. He is one of the most public-spirited men of the town, and is ever ready to use his influence and means to advance the interests of the community He was one of the principal promoters of the water works system of Springville, and owns a large share of the stock.
On the old homestead in Brown township, where he was born, Mr. Butler was married on Christmas Day, 1882, to Miss Clara Burger, a native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Abraham Burger, who was one of the early settlers of Linn county. Here Mrs. Butler grew to womanhood, her education being acquired at Mt. Vernon. They began their married life on the old home farm, and there their only child, Margaret Josephine, was born. After residing there for a few years they removed to Springville, and the daughter will graduate at the high school in that place in June, 1901.
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As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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