The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-15
BUTLER, CITY
EDUCATOR rs DEAD:
ILL A
Son of University Founder
Was Noted for Literary
and School Work.

Scot Butler, son of the founder
and formerly president of Butler
university, died Wednesday night at
his home, 124 Downey avenue, after
a long illness.
Esteemed as one of the nations
greatest educators for his liberal
educational ideas and literary works,
MIR. Butler was claimed by death in
his eighty-seventh year. He had
been i'll for six years, critically dur
ing the last four and a half years.
Private funeral services will be
held at 2 p. m. Friday, at the IrV-
ington home, with burial in Crown
Hill cemetery.
Son OF Founder
Intimately associated with the
progress Of the college during his
whole life, Mr.. Butler was the son
Of Ovid Butler who founded the
institution in 1855. For thirty
eight years he was connected with
the faculty, serving fourteen years
Of that period as president.
Born in Indianapolis, Feb. 8, 1914,
the son Of Ovid and Elizabeth Nc
Quat Butler, Of English and Scotch
ancestry. Mr.. Butler was educated
In private schools in the city. Be-
fore he attained his seventeenth
year, he was forced by illness to
abandon his studies, and on recov-
ering in 1852 enlisted as o private
in the Thlrty-third Indiana volun-
teer infantry.
Served In Civil war
An attache to the headquarters
of Generals Morgan, Granger,
Thomas, Hooker and Sherman, Mr..
Butler served in the signal corps,
participating in the principal en-
gagements of the Union campaigns
from 1862 to 1864 in West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.
Returning from the army he en-
tered Northwestern Christian uni
versity, Is Butler then was called,
later receiving degrees as bachelor
Of arts and master of arts. In 1869
he became an instructor in Latin
and mathematics at Indiana uni
verSity, remaining there until 1871,
when he was elected to the Butler
faculty.
Mr.. Butler was elected to the
presidency of the college his father
founded in 1891 after he spent two
years abroad, studying at the Royal
Prussian Halle, at Wittenberg uni
versity, and at the Royal Friedrich
Wilhelm university in Berlin.
Noted for Literary Work
His reminiscent writings and lee
lures on life in the army were par
ticularly well known for their lit
erary quality. An energetic and ef-
fective disciplinarian, he was credit
ed with placing Butler among the
progressive institutions of the coun-
try. He served in the presidency
until 1904, and from 1906-07.
He was a member of the Downey
Avenue Christian church and the
Sigma Chi fraternity, was active in
the ~Indianapolis Literary Club, the
Contemporary and College Corner
Clubs, and was a member Of the
University and Century Clubs.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Julia Dunn Butler; six children, six
grandchildren, a brother and a sis
ter. The sons and daughters are
Mrs. Perry Hall Clifford, 1874 Dow
ney avenue; Miss Evelyn Butler,
1888 North Pennsylvania street;
Demia Butler, professor of English
literature at Butler; John Scott
Butler, metallurgist at Fresnillo,
Mexico; Mrs. Carlos Rocker OF the
Spink-Arms hotel; Ovid McQuat
Butler of Washington, editor Of the
American Forestry Magazine, and
Mrs. H. w. Tefft Of Fl. Sheridan,
Ill. The brother is CLANCY Butler
of Interlaken, Fla, and the sister
is Mrs. David Owen Thomas of
Minneapolis, MINI, and st. Au-
gustine, Fla.