Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Butler, Nathaniel 1853 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BUTLER, Nathaniel, educator, was born at Eastport, Me., May 22, 1853. He was 
graduated from Colby university A.B., 1873, A.M., 1876, and taught school in 
Illinois, 1873-83. He was professor of rhetoric and English literature in the 
University of Chicago, 1884-86; professor of Latin and of rhetoric and English 
literature in the University of Illinois, 1886-91; associate professor of 
English literature and subsequently director of the university extension 
department of the University of Chicago, 1892-95, which he represented at the 
university extension congress in London in 1894. He was president of Colby 
university, 1896-1900, received the degree D.D. from there in 1896, and 
returned to the University of Chicago in 1900. He was an editor of Johnsons 
Cyclopędia, and published a Latin text book.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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