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Edward Burgess Butler (December 16, 1853 – February 20, 1928) was an American businessman who founded Butler Brothers department stores. He served as the first president of the Pasadena Society of Artists.
Biography
He was born on December 16, 1853, in Lewiston, Maine to Manly Orville Butler and Elizabeth Howe. He had eight siblings: two of them, George H. Bulter and Charles H. Butler formed a partnership with Edward. Manly owned a grocery store. In 1858, his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and he attended the Boston public school system.
Together with his brothers, George and Charles, he founded Butler Brothers in Boston in 1877.
For five years he sold goods throughout New England and Canada as a traveling salesman. He married Jane Holly in 1880, she was the daughter of William Henry Holly, of Norwalk, Connecticut.
With his wealth he collected works by George Inness, and later donated the collection to the Art Institute of Chicago. Having trained under Frank Charles Peyraud, Butler became a landscape painter. For a time he exhibited his works under a pseudonym, "Edward Burgess". In 1908, he exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his oil paintings was displayed at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
Butler moved to Pasadena, California after he retired from business. He died in Pasadena, California on February 20, 1928.
Titles
Director of Illinois Merchants Trust Company
Chairman of Ways and Means committee
Chairman of the World's Columbian Exposition
President of the Glenwood, Illinois Manual Training School
Trustee of Hull House
Trustee of Chicago Orphan Asylum
Trustee of Girls' Refuge
Trustee of First State Pawners' Society
Trustee of Art Institute of Chicago