WILDA EDWIN BUTLER, M. D.

    Dr. Wilda Edwin Butler, surgeon, brought to the starling point of his professional career comprehensive knowledge gained in thorough professional training in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and this he supplemented by broad and valuable hospital training and experience. Since 1898 he has continuously practiced in New Haven, where he has done most important hospital work and has also been accorded a liberal private practice.
     A native of Maryland, Dr. Butler was born in Caroline county, December 19, 1870, a son of William E. and Sarah Ann (Blades) Butler, who were also natives of that state and were there reared and married. In early life the father took up the business of contracting and building, to which he devoted his remaining days. With the outbreak of the Civil war he became a private in the First Maryland Volunteer Infantry Regiment and continued in the service until the close of hostilities, participating in many important engagements. He was in two of the biggest battles of the war, Antietam and Gettysburg, and was never wounded. He now resides in Talbot county, Maryland, at the age of seventy-four years, while his wife is seventy-one years of age. In their family were six children: Mrs. Eunice Edgell, residing in Easton, Maryland; Mrs. Emma Horsey, also of Easton; Wilda Edwin; Mrs. Mary Morganthal, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Lois Todd, also of Waynesboro; and Charles J., a prominent lawyer of Easton, Maryland, who is now state's attorney of that state.
     Dr. Butler pursued his education in Preston Academy, Washington College and in the academic department of the Western Maryland College. With broad literary learning to serve as a foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional knowledge, he then entered Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia and was graduated on the 12th of May, 1897. His high standing is indicated in the fact that he was appointed interne in the Cumberland Street Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, after which he was called to Grace Hospital, New Haven, as interne. He afterward became assistant surgeon and later attending surgeon in that hospital, which position he still fills, and he is today recognized as one of the most eminent and able surgeons of the city and he is noted especially as an operator for goiter. He also engages in private practice and has been recognized as a prominent representative of professional interests in New Haven since 1898. He does everything in his power to advance his knowledge and promote his efficiency, having taken post-graduate work in Berlin, Paris and London, while through association with the New Haven County and the Connecticut State Medical Societies, the American Medical Association, and the State and National Homeopathic Societies he keeps in touch with the latest discoveries and scientific research of the profession.
     In 1901 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Butler and Miss Josephine Bellosa, a daughter of Dr. Frederick Bellosa, of New Haven, and they now have two children: Frederick William, who was born in 1903; and Edwin Ormond, born in 1908. Both are attending school, the former being now a high school pupil.
    Dr. and Mrs. Butler are well known socially in New Haven, where they have a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. The Doctor, however, never allows anything to interfere with the careful performance of his professional duties, to which he gives most conscientious attention, realizing fully the obligations and responsibilities that devolve upon him.

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