BIO: Butler, W. H. MD, s/o Butler, George & Eliza Stott - Unknown Co BUTLER STOTT MCLEOD HORNER "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. PAGE 248 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. Transcribed by: Diana Flynn Date: 27 Oct 1997