Nat Butler

Nat Butler

Nat Butler in 1910
Personal information
Born January 6, 1870
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died May 24, 1943 (aged 73)
Revere, Massachusetts, United States
Sport
Sport Cycling

Nat Butler (January 6, 1870 – May 24, 1943) was an American pioneer professional cyclist. On track he won a bronze medal in the motor-paced racing at the 1909 World Championships. On the road he won the Luiscott Race in 1893 and finished second in the New York six-day race in 1903. His brothers Tom and Frank were also competitive cyclists.[1]

Butler was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a family of a craftsman and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He won his first race, the Luiscott Race, in 1893 and received as prize two diamonds and a horse with carriage.[2] He then turned professional, and competed in motor-paced racing at the 1899 World Championships, together with brother Tom. Tom finished second and Nat placed fourth.

Butler finished second in the New York six-day race in 1903, and after 1905 competed in Europe. He retired around 1910[1] and in 1913 took over the velodrome "Revere Cycletrack" near his hometown of Cambridge.[3] In later years, he became an established landscape painter.[4]

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  1. 1 2 Nat Butler. cyclingarchives.com
  2. Rad-Welt. Sport-Album. Ein radsportliches Jahrbuch. 5. Jg., 1906, ZDB-ID 749618-7, pp. 53–54.
  3. Allan E. Foulds (2005) Boston's Ballparks & Arenas. University Press of New England, Lebanon NH, ISBN 1-58465-409-0, p. 188.
  4. Peter Joffre Nye (2006) The Six-Day Bicycle Races. Van der Plas Publishing, San Francisco CA, ISBN 1-892495-49-X, p. 38.
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