Biography
Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa on December 5, 1869. He moved to New York City and lived in Flushing (Queens) New York.
He wrote twenty-five stories for Woman's Home Companion between 1906 and 1935. The stories in the Companion were illustrated by artists including May Wilson Preston, Frederic Dorr Steele, Herbert Paus and Rico Le Brun.
Between 1931 and 1936, at least seventeen of Butler's stories published in newspapers were illustarted by Ethel Hays.
He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts on September 13, 1937, and was interred in Flushing Cemetery.
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