Richard Butler | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 11 November 1834 Coteau du Lac, Lower Canada |
| Died | 16 March 1925 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Publisher |
Richard Butler (born 11 November 1834 at Coteau du Lac, Lower Canada - 16 March 1925) was an editor, publisher, journalist and U.S. vice-consul in Hamilton, Ontario. [1]
His parents had been born in Ireland and arrived in Canada a few months before his birth. He worked from childhood, so he had little formal education. He worked first as a confectioner and baker in Montreal, and secured a job with the Montreal Herald when he was twelve years old. This enabled him to help his mother raise Butler and his three siblings, after his father had died suddenly when serving in the British 24th Foot Regiment stationed in Canada.
His experience working for newspapers continued after the family moved to London, Ontario, where he found work for the London Free Press . He also gained experience in Hamilton working at the Journal and Express office. Butler moved to the United States in 1852 at the age of seventeen, working in Rochester, New York for the Rochester Union. In 1854 he returned to Hamilton, where he helped establish a union for printers. By 1859 he had worked his way up to an assistant foreman at The Christian Advocate.
He returned to the United States in time to be listed in the 1860 census as a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked as a printer.
In 1862 he became editor of the Oxford Citizen, a newspaper in Oxford, Ohio, which he sold in 1870. He also operated a printing business there. During his Oxford years, Butler was active in a fraternal temperance society called the Good Templars and spent a few months in the Union Army. In 1915 he published a short history of early Oxford called Ancient Oxford. First appearing in a newspaper, it was later published as a short book.
In 1870 Butler bought a newspaper in Oberlin, Ohio which proved to be a mistake. Oberlin College wanted a religious paper[ clarification needed ]. After two years Butler sold the newspaper, and shortly afterwards became city editor of the Burlington Hawkeye in Burlington, Iowa. Eventually he moved to Illinois, where he bought the Clinton Public and was its editor and publisher for twenty-five years.
In 1897, after selling the Public, he returned to Canada once again where (as an ardent Republican) he was appointed to the position of U.S. vice-consul in the Ontario city of Hamilton, a position he held for eighteen years. At the same time was employed by the town's newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator , and wrote a column on the history of Hamilton for the Saturday edition of the paper, titled "Saturday Musings". The column appeared under the pen name of The Muser.
The Butler neighbourhood in Hamilton Mountain is named after him. It is bounded by Stone Church Road East (north), Rymal Road East (south), Upper Wentworth Street (west) and Upper Sherman Street (east). Landmarks in this neighbourhood include St. Jean de Brebeuf High School and Billy Sherring Park.
Hamilton, from the point at which it was first colonized by settlers, has benefited from its geographical proximity to major land and water transportation routes along the Niagara Peninsula and Lake Ontario. Its strategic importance has created, by Canadian standards, a rich military history which the city preserves.
Thomas Baker McQuesten was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1943 who represented the riding of Hamilton—Wentworth. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mitchell Hepburn and Gordon Conant.
Frank Hatton was an American politician and newspaperman. He was a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, served as United States Postmaster General, and later edited The Washington Post.
Delazon Smith was a Democratic Party politician who briefly represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate in 1859. He served for less than one month, making his term among the shortest on record in the Senate. Smith was also a newspaper editor in New York and Ohio, and served in the Oregon Territory's legislature.
Daniel John O'Donoghue was a printer, labour leader and political figure in Ontario. O'Donoghue is recognized as one of the original founders of organized labour in Canada and in 1874 he became the first labour candidate election to a Canadian legislature.
Clayton King Fauver was an American college football coach during the late 19th century. In 1895, he became the first paid coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 1896, Fauver served as the head coach at Oberlin College, compiling a record of 5–3–1. Fauver was also a Major League pitcher for the Louisville Colonels.
Alexander Fraser Pirie was a Canadian journalist and newspaper editor.
William Southam was a Canadian newspaper publisher.
Below is a timeline of events in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This article describes the Economic History of Hamilton, Ontario.
James Henry Harris (1832–1891) was an American civil rights advocate, upholsterer, and politician. Born into slavery, he was freed as a young adult and worked as a carpenter's apprentice and worker before he went to Oberlin College in Ohio. For a time, he lived in Chatham, Ontario, where he was a member of the Chatham Vigilance Committee that aimed to prevent blacks being transported out of Canada and sold as slaves in the United States.
Charles "Chuck" Gordon Roland was born on January 25, 1933, in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Jack and Leona Roland. After a long and distinguished career as an author, editor, and Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at McMaster University, Roland died at the age of 76 on June 9, 2009, in Burlington, Ontario.
The Woodstock Sentinel-Review is a local daily newspaper that serves Woodstock, Ontario and Oxford County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
There were five important periods in the history of Canadian newspapers' responsible for the eventual development of the modern newspaper. These are the "Transplant Period" from 1750 to 1800, when printing and newspapers initially came to Canada as publications of government news and proclamations; followed by the "Partisan Period from 1800–1850," when individual printers and editors played a growing role in politics. The "Nation Building Period from 1850–1900," when Canadian editors began the work of establishing a common nationalistic view of Canadian society. The "Modern period" from 1900 to 1980s saw the professionalization of the industry and the growth of chains. "Current history" since the 1990s saw outside interests take over the chains, as they faced new competition from the Internet.
William Howard Day was a black abolitionist, editor, educator and minister. After his father died when he was four, Day went to live with J. P. Williston and his wife who ensured that he received a good education and learned the printer's trade. He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Oberlin College. He was a printer and newspaper editor. He fought for civil rights of African Americans a number of ways, as a journalist, teacher, and leader of the Freedmen's Bureau. He was an orator, making a speech to 10,000 newly emancipated people on what biographer Todd Mealy called the first march on Washington.
James Madison Bell was an African-American poet, orator, and political activist who was involved in the abolitionist movement against slavery. He was the first native African-American poet in Ohio and was called the "Bard of the Maumee," of Maumee River. According to Joan R. Sherman: "As poet and public speaker, Bell was one of the nineteenth century's most dedicated propagandists for African-American freedom and civil rights."
William P. Newman (1810/15–1866) was a fugitive slave who escaped from Virginia, moved north and obtained an education at Oberlin College. Becoming an ordained Baptist minister, he pastored for a few years at the Union Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. He made numerous mission trips to Canada, founding schools and preaching. He was known for writing on abolitionist themes. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passed, he settled his family in Ontario, where they remained until 1859. Leaving Canada, he first immigrated with his family to Haiti, but came into conflict with the Catholicism he found there. After trying to immigrate again to Jamaica, he returned to the United States after the outbreak of the Civil War and re-established his pastorate at the Union Baptist Church. He died in a cholera epidemic in 1866.
John Prat Hopley was a British-American attorney and newspaperman, known as one of Ohio's most influential publishers. He was editor and publisher of the Bucyrus Journal in Bucyrus, Ohio, for nearly 50 years.
The Indianapolis Leader began in August 1879 as Indianapolis' first black newspaper.
Walter Robert Hickling was a Canadian artist, poet, composer and educator. Hickling was a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, an active member of local and regional art clubs, and a founding member of Hamilton Artists Inc.
History of DeWitt County, Illinois (1882), available on the Internet