Biography
In the early 19th century, his ancestors Asa and Simon Butler were the first American paper makers to make paper for the U.S. Congress. In 1841, Julius Wales Butler moved the J.W. Butler Paper Company from the Fox river in St. Charles, Il to State Street in Chicago, IL., the oldest family owned business in Chicago. The family business would later diversify into dairy, ranching, aviation,and Butler, his father and family would be be instrumental in founding the village of Oak Brook. Il and the Oak Brook Polo Club.
Butler is the godson of Tyrone Power, and in his early twenties he lived with Power and his wife, actress Linda Christian. Through Power's friend, film director Edmund Goulding, he befriended the Kennedy family, particularly Joe and John F. Kennedy. Butler and JFK socialized often in Hyannisport, Greenwich Village and in Newport, R.I. where they got fogged in on a sailing trip.
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