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Dr. Timothy Joseph Butler
Vol. 3 Pages 1920-1921

     The Butler family, represented in Weatherford by Dr. Timothy Joseph Butler, is 
distinctly southern in its habitat, and is of Scotch-Irish origin.  Timothy Butler, granshire 
of the subject, was the Irish emigrant ancestor.  He came first to Canada, but his stay 
there was brief, and he died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he was a prosperous planter 
for years.  Doctor Butler's maternal grandfather, Robert Marshall, came from Scotland to 
Cincinnati, Ohio, when he was a boy of three years, and he, too, died in the vicinity of 
Vicksburg, a well known planter of that place.

     Dr. Timothy Joseph Butler was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on January 11, 1886, 
and is a son of T. J. Butler, also born in Vicksburg, the latter in the year 1854.  He died 
on the family plantation, St. Elmo, Warren County, in 1889.  He was Roman Catholic in 
his faith.  His wife was Miss Emma Marshall, born in Memphis, Tennessee, and she now 
makes her home with Doctor Butler, their only child.

     Dr. Butler was graduated from the s. A. C., in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1902, with 
the equivalent of a high school education.  In 1904 he was graduated from the C.H.A., in 
Port Gibson, Mississippi, his preparation for his professional studies being made there.  
He spent the years 1905 and 1906 in the medical department of the University of 
Virginia, and the next two years in Tulane University, in New Orleans.  He was 
graduated from the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, with the class of 
1909, when he received his M.D. degree.

     In October, 1909, Doctor Butler began medical practice at Calvin, Oklahoma, and in 
1911 he came to Weatherford, where he has since conducted a practice along general 
lines of medicine and surgery.

     Dr. Butler is a democrat and a member of the Episcopal Church.  His college fraternity 
is the Alpha Kappa Kappa, and in Masonry he is affiliated with the Weatherford Lodge 
No. 138, ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Weatherford Chapter No. 31, Royal Arch 
Masons, and Weatherford Commandery No. 17, Knights Templar.  He is a membe3r of 
the County, State and American Medical societies, and the association of military 
surgeons, and holds a commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, 
United States army.

     In Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1910, was recorded the marriage of Doctor Butler to Miss 
Letitia Templeman Geiger, daughter of S. E. Geiger, of Charlottesville, Virginia, now 
deceased.  Four children have been born to doctor and Mrs. Butler: Emma M., Lily, 
Mildred and Marshall, all at home.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Norma Capehart March 6, 2003.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).