(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 591)

D. M. Butler, a brother of L. S., was also an attorney of Worth county. He was born in Cedar Co., Iowa, in December, 1853, and was the son of M. V. and Emily S. Butler, who were both natives of Ohio, and who had settled at Springdale, Cedar county, in 1846, and where they now reside. D. M. received his education at the common schools of his native county, and at the State University, at Iowa City. After graduating from the above institution of learning, he passed a full course of lectures at the Des Moines Law School, and finished therefrom in June, 1877. The same month he was admitted to practice in the supreme court. In July, of that year, he removed 'to Northwood and entered into the practice of the profession of law, in partnership with his brother, L. S. Owing to the failure of his health by close confinement, and thinking to derive a benefit from the change, in August, 1878, he retired from the firm and business. He was appointed postal clerk in the United States mail service, in which he continued to serve until February, 1883, when he resigned his position, and purchasing the Osceola Record republican newspaper of Osceola, Polk Co., Neb., embarked upon the stormy seas of journalism. He was married in August, 1882, to Bessie Pershing, of Laclede, Mo. Mr. Butler was a man of fair legal abilities, but in many things possessed a knowledge far beyond the requirements of even that profession.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, April 24, 2008