Ellis Parker Butler (abt. 1869 - abt. 1937)

Born about 5 Dec 1869 in Muscatine, Iowa

Ancestors

Died about 13 Sep 1937 at about age 67 in Williamsville, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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Biography

Ellis Parker Butler, son of Audley and Adela (Vesey) Butler, was born 5 December 1869 in Muscatine, Iowa.

He married Ida Zipster in 1899. They had five children:

1. Elsie Malcolm Butler, b. 1902
2. Wallace Butler, d. infancy
3. Jean Butler, b. 1909
4. Marjorie Butler, b. 1909 (twin)
5. Ellis Olmstead Butler, b. 1914

He was a resident of Williamsville, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Elsie died in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

He was buried near family members in the Flushing Cemetery, Queens County, New York. ^[1]

From Wikipedia [2]

He was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs," in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb.

His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #7421869 has photo
2. ↑ Wikipedia [1]

See also:

• Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
• Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pgs. 597, 598, #10108