BIOGRAPHY: Butler, F. F.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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     Honorable F. F. BUTLER. - This gentleman was born on a farm in 
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, March 7, 1827. When ten years of 
age he removed with his parents to Chantauqua County, New York, where 
he received his early education on the farm, and at the common district 
school.  In 1840 his father removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he 
immediately became a student in the Erie Academy, which he regularly 
attended for five years and then taught one winter in the city public 
schools.  The summer he was twenty he engaged in mercantile business, 
carrying on a trafficking trade with dealers in Buffalo, which he 
continued for about two years, when he sold out and commenced 
railroading as an employe of the New York and Erie, with which company 
he remained sixteen years, fourteen of which he lived in New York, and 
ran a passenger train in and out of that city.
     The Summers of 1865-6 he spent in Wisconsin improving a farm he 
had bought a number of years previous in Dodge County, and in the 
Spring of 1867, removed, with his family, to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and 
located on a farm two and a half miles south of town, where he remained 
until 1871, when he bought, and moved onto the property in town where 
he now resides.  In March, 1874, he was elected Mayor of the City of 
Cedar Falls, to which office he was re-elected in 1873, without 
opposition.