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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 159-160


FRANK M. BUTCHER.

	Prominent and honored among the business men of Denver is Frank 
M. Butcher, who occupies a leading position in financial circles as 
president of the Denver Stock Yards Bank. Well defined plans and 
carefully executed purposes have brought him to his present position 
through the steps of an orderly progression. Liberal educational 
opportunities qualified him for life's practical and responsible 
duties, and obstacles and difficulties in his path have seemed but to 
serve as an impetus for renewed effort on his part. Mr. Butcher is a 
native of Iowa, his birth having occurred in Villisca on the 12th of 
August, 1875. His parents were Preston and Mary (McCollum) Butcher. The 
father was born in Ohio, as was the paternal grandfather. For many 
years Preston Butcher devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits 
but is now living retired. His wife was born in Preston county. West 
Virginia, and has passed away. In their family were eight children who 
are yet living.

	Frank M. Butcher acquired a public school education, supplemented 
by a course of study in the Kansas State University at Lawrence. 
Kansas, the family having removed to that state during his youthful 
days. For two years he engaged in farming in Kansas and for two years 
followed general merchandising there. His initial step in connection 
with the banking business was made at Blackwell, Oklahoma, where he 
entered a bank, in which he served as cashier for nine years. He then 
became national bank examiner in May, 1909, and continued to act in 
that capacity until the 1st of July, 1915, when he resigned to become 
identified with the Denver Stock Yards Bank as its cashier. He thus 
served until January, 1917, when he was elected to the presidency, and 
has since been at the head of the institution, concentrating his 
attention upon constructive effort. administrative direction and 
executive control. The bank has shown a steady growth throughout the 
entire period of his connection therewith. It is capitalized for one 
hundred thousand dollars, has surplus and undivided profits amounting 
to one hundred and twenty thousand, five hundred and twenty dollars, 
while its deposits have reached one million, eight hundred and sixty-
seven thousand, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars. The other officers 
of the bank are: Henry Gebhard, vice president; Ira B. Casteel, vice 
president; W. Dale dark, cashier, while James Brennan and Charles A. 
Gebhard, together with the officers, constitute the board of directors.

	In June, 1901, Mr. Butcher was united in marriage to Miss Mary 
Alien, of Lawrence, Kansas, and they now have a daughter. Mary, six 
years of age, who is attending school. Mr. Butcher is well known in 
Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of lodge, chapter and 
consistory, while with the Nobles of El Jebel Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He is likewise prominent 
in the Knights of Pythias lodge, in which he has filled all of the 
chairs in both the subordinate and grand lodges. He turns to golf for 
recreation and his interest in community affairs is indicated in his 
membership in the Civic and Commercial Association. He is in hearty 
sympathy with its well defined plans and purposes for the upbuilding of 
Denver, its improvement along lines of municipal beauty and adornment, 
the extension of Its trade relations and the upholding of those 
interests which are ever a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. 
As a business man he deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, 
for he has been dependent upon his own resources from early manhood, 
and it has been through the utilization of the opportunities that have 
come to him, resulting in the development of talent and ability, that 
he has reached his present position as a foremost banker of Colorado's 
capital.