Robert+C.+Butler


 * Robert C. Butler **


 * Republican**** • **** Carbon County **
 * Member of the Constitutional Convention 1889**

Robert C. Butler was born on March 9, 1857 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. As a young man, he worked with his father in the publishing business and later, with his brother under the name Butler Brothers. The brothers purchased a ranch and by the 1880s had extensive holdings in Carbon County, and some land in Sweetwater County. In 1885, Robert purchased the interest of his brother and later served on the Wyoming Constitutional Convention. He returned to the East in the 1890s and re-entered the publishing business until his retirement in 1918. Butler died in Philadelphia in July 1937.