David Lev (Botwinik) Butler (abt. 1877 - 1959)

Born about 15 Nov 1877 in Minskaya Gubernya, Rossiyskaya imperiya

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Died 5 Jul 1959 at about age 81 in Kings County, New York, United States of America

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David (Botwinik) Butler has Jewish Roots.

Biography

David Butler was likely the first of the family to immigrate to the United States. His naturalization records list an immigration date of 3 Nov 1898, but no ship name.

It appears the family surname of Botwinik (or variant) was changed to Bottler and then Butler because of David’s new world occupation as a bottler in a soda manufacturing business.

David moved his family from Chelsea, MA to Brooklyn, NY by 1918.

The landsmannschaft society which handled his burial (Chevra Agudath Achim Ansche Borisoff) was connected to Barysaw, Minsk Gubernya. David is buried in the Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York.

Notes

Residence: 1902-1903 Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: home 183 Second, business 137 Summer; occupation listed as “bottler”.

1904 Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: home 51 W. Third Street.

1906 Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: home 43 Summer.

1910 Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: Chelsea City Directory: home 28 Ash, business 86 Summer; occupation listed as soda manufacturer.

Census: 25 APR 1910. Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Note: address is 28 Ash Street. Occupation is listed as wholesale merchant of tonics. 5 JAN 1920. Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA. Note: David’s occupation is listed as proprietor of soda water company. 5 APR 1930. Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA. Note: address 1573 St. Marks Avenue, David’s occupation is listed as “soda”. 1940 Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA. Note: address is East 501 93rd street. David and Sarah are residing with daughter Fay Levine’s family.

Alternate birth date: 5 Nov 1873 (from WWI draft registration card)

Find A Grave: Memorial #158185617

Sources

• "Naturalization Records for David Butler", 2 Nov 1904, U.S. District Court, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, certificate #2-1268, [Original documents located at National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC, USA], photocopy in possession of Jana Shea

• "Montefiores Cemetery Locator", Interment #90052, Montefiores Springfield L.I. Cemetery Society (Online: Montefiores.com, 2006)

• M. Wincott ((Find A Grave contributor #48952202), "Grave marker for David Butler", JPEG image, FindAGrave (Online; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), [Original grave marker located Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, New York, USA]

• "1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule)" Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA, sheet 8B, family #146, line 61, David Butler household, digital image, FamilySearch (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2010), [Original source: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), NARA microfilm publication T626, (Washington DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), Roll 1544, p. 8B]