Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Jefferson County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 563. NOBLE BUTLER, Although a native of Western Pennsylvania, where he was born, July 17, 1811, became a citizen of Louisville, Ky. (where he still lives, Feb., 1874), before 1840; graduated at Hanover College, Indiana, and was for some time a professor there; has steadily followed the profession of teaching; is author of a valuable work on grammar, and has been active in editing other school books; has written much and well for the press, but little of it being poetry. [Note: Shown "Threkla, From Schiller," "The Blue-Bird."] Butler = PA IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/butler.n.txt