History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 621.
[Scott County]   [White Sulphur Precinct]

J. E. BUTLER, merchant, P. O. White Sulphur; is a native of this county and
was born in 1852; he is a son of Daniel and Mary M. (Mefford) Butler, both
natives of Scott County; his father was born about the year 1807; was a
wagon-maker by trade, and died about 1875; his mother was born about 1829.
Subject was educated in the common schools of White Sulphur Precinct, and
after leaving school in 1871, commenced teaching, which vocation he
followed until 1874, when he engaged in merchandising, a business he still
follows; he was married April 21st 1880, in White Sulphur, to Miss Lizzie
Glass, a daughter of J. C. and Ann E. Glass; he was born in Owen County
in 1817, and she in Scott County about 1832; he (subject) is a County
Surveyor, since 1879, and is at present a candidate for re-election; he
is a Democrat politically; he is a prosperous merchant of White Sulphur,
and the only one in the place; keeps a large stock of goods and is an
enterprising business man.

Butler Mefford Glass
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Owen-KY

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