Harrison-Pottawattamie County IA Archives Biographies.....Butler, L D 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

L. D. Butler, lumber dealer and farmer, was born in Ky. in 1826; removed to Clay
county, Mo., in 1837 with parents. In 1846 was sent to England as a Mormon
missionary, was gone two years, and in 1849 located at Council Bluffs; removed
to Harrison county in 1853 and engaged in farming. He built the first grist mill
in the county, which he sold to Dally & Clark. He engaged in the mercantile
business in 1856, near the mill; moved the business to Woodbine in 1867 and was
burned out the same year. He engaged in the lumber business in the spring of
1881. He owns a farm in Lincoln township of 880 acres, 100 acres in Douglas
township and 200 acres in Boyer township. He has been Postmaster in Harrison
county twenty years. He severed connection with the Mormon church twenty-five
years ago. He was married in 1849 at Birmingham, Eng., to Anna Binnall, and has
ten children.


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From Harrison County Chapter, Woodbine Biographies.

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