Amos Butler

Amos Butler
Born(1860-10-01)October 1, 1860
Brookville, Indiana, U.S.
DiedAugust 5, 1937(1937-08-05) (aged 76)
Resting placeCrown Hill Cemetery and Arboretum, Section 33, Lot 125
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationHanover College
Alma materIndiana University
OccupationNaturalist
SpouseMary I. Reynolds
ChildrenCarrie Butler Watts
Parent(s)Hannah Wright Butler
William W. Butler

Amos William Butler (1 October 1860 – 5 August 1937) was an American naturalist and prison reformer.

Early life and education

Amos Butler was born on 1 October 1860 in Brookville, Indiana to Hannah Wright Butler and William W. Butler.[1][2] Butler's grandfather, also named Amos Butler, was the first settler of Brookville.[1] Beginning in 1877, Butler attended Hanover College. He later studied at Indiana University Bloomington, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa[1] and Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific fraternity.[3]

Career

Butler founded several organizations, including the Brookville Society of Natural History in 1881, the Indiana Academy of Science in 1885,[4] and the International Committee on Mental Hygiene.[5] He was also a member of several other organizations, including the American Ornithologists' Union, the Wilson Ornithological Club, the Biological Society of Washington, the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, and the Nature Study Club of Indiana.[6] From 1897 to 1923, Butler served as Secretary of the Indiana Board of State Charities, where he began researching prison reform and mental disabilities.[5][7] During his career, he served as president of the National Conference of Social Work and the American Prison Congress, and he was appointed the U.S. delegate to the International Prison Congress three times.[8] He retired in 1930 and began researching the native peoples of Indiana, including silver trading at Fort Ouiatenon.[8]

Honors

A species of fish, Poecilia butleri,[9] and a snake, Butler's garter snake (Thamnophis butleri), were named after him.[10] A chapter of the National Audubon Society in central Indiana is named the Amos Butler Audubon Society.[11] His biography was included in Who's Who in America in 1903[12] and in American Men of Science in 1910.[13]

Personal life

Butler married Mary I. Reynolds[14] and had at least one child, a daughter named Carrie Butler Watts.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Reifel, August Jacob (1915). History of Franklin County, Indiana: Her People, Industries, and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families. Windmill Publications. p. 1292.
  2. ^ "Amos W. Butler Papers" (PDF). Indiana Historical Society. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Nature Study Club in Tribute to Butler". The Noblesville Ledger. Noblesville, Indiana. 25 June 1932.
  4. ^ "Butler, Amos W." Indiana State Library. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  5. ^ a b Osgood, Robert L. (December 1, 2001). "The Menace of the Feebleminded: George Bliss, Amos Butler, and the Indiana Committee on Mental Defectives". Indiana Magazine of History.
  6. ^ "Nature Study Club in Tribute to Butler". The Noblesville Ledger. Noblesville, Indiana. 25 June 1932.
  7. ^ Lyon, M. W. (14 February 1938). "Amos William Butler". Journal of Mammalogy. 19 (1): 133–134. doi:10.2307/1374294. JSTOR 1374294.
  8. ^ a b "Amos W. Butler papers, 1890-1937". WorldCat.
  9. ^ Jordan, David Starr (1889). "List of fishes collected by Alphonse Forrer about Mazatlan, with descriptions of two new species, Heros beani and Poecilia butleri". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 11: 330.
  10. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  11. ^ "Our History". Amos Butler Audubon Society of Central Indiana. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  12. ^ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1903). Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States. Vol. 3. Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 213.
  13. ^ Cattell, James McKeen (1910). American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Vol. 2. Bowker. p. 69.
  14. ^ "Butler MSS". Lilly Library Manuscript Collections. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
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