Charles Butler (NYU)

Charles Butler (February 15, 1802 – December 13, 1897) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He was born at Kinderhook Landing, Columbia Co., N.Y.; studied law in the office of Martin Van Buren at Albany, N. Y.; and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He became wealthy by accumulating land at the site of Chicago, Illinois and through his investments in railways. It was his accumulation of Illinois land and railway building that helped turn Chicago into a city.

In 1835, he was one of the founders of the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. In 1836, he was appointed to the council of NYU, (where he served as an instructor) and he was a long serving Council President.

He was a younger brother of Benjamin Franklin Butler (US Attorney General under Martin Van Buren), and a relative of (both by blood and as an in-law), as well as a business associate of William Butler Ogden, the first mayor of Chicago.

References

Stoddard, Francis Hovey (1903), The Life and Letters of Charles Butler, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons .
"Charles Butler is Dead: The Aged Philanthropist Passes Away Peacefully At His Home In This City." The New York Times, December 14, 1897.

External links

Diary thoughts of Chicago in 1833

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 65319034

Union Theological Seminary (New York City)

Presidents

Faculty

Founding	Charles Butler

Former	William Greenough Thayer Shedd Charles Augustus Briggs Reinhold Niebuhr Paul Tillich John Macquarrie Robert Pollack Raymond E. Brown Edward Robinson Henry Sloane Coffin Dorothee Sölle Harry Emerson Fosdick Harry F. Ward Walter Wink Roger Haight Harrison S. Elliot J. Louis Martyn J. Brooke Mosley

Present	David M. Carr James H. Cone Paul F. Knitter Chung Hyun Kyung Christopher Morse John Anthony McGuckin Ann Belford Ulanov Cornel West

Publications

Union Seminary Quarterly Review

Denominations	Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Institutions	Columbia University Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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