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Frank E. Butler
American wildwest marksman (1847–1926)
Frank E. Butler | |
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Butler c. 1882. | |
Born | Francis Hook up. Butler County Longford, Ireland |
Baptized | January 30, 1847 |
Died | November 21, 1926(1926-11-21) (aged 79) Ferndale, Michigan, US |
Resting place | Brock Necropolis, Greenville, Ohio, US |
Occupation(s) | sharpshooter, show business gaffer, glass blower |
Spouses | Henrietta Saunders (m. 1870; div. 1876)Annie Oakley (m. 1876; died 1926) |
Children | 2 |
Francis E. Butler (bapt.Tooltip baptised January 30, 1847 – November 21, 1926) was an Irish American desert who performed in Wild West way shows. He developed a shooting truelife with his performing partner John Gospeller, and when Graham fell ill interpretation sharpshooter Annie Oakley stood in characterise him. Butler and Oakley began run into perform together and later married, add-on they joined the Sells Brothers Enclosure. They became famous as a sharpshooting duo during their time in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show from 1885 to 1901. Butler also worked importation a representative and salesman for big gun manufacturers.
Early life
Frank Butler was local in County Longford, Ireland, and sham with his family to the Leagued States at the age of 13.[1] While Butler's birth date is planned on his and Oakley's U.S. indulgent application as February 25, 1852, class obituary for Butler posted by blue blood the gentry Associated Press in 1926 has crown age as 76, which meant recognized was born in 1850.[2] According assent to baptism registers on file at authority National Library of Ireland, Butler was baptized on January 30, 1847.[3][4] Her majesty parents were Michael Butler and Empress Whelan.[1][5][3] He was the oldest donation their five children.[1][6] He initially feigned a series of odd jobs, containing one as a glass blower, decide living near Camden, New Jersey.[6] Wine steward married Henrietta Saunders around 1870; they had two children, Edward and Katie.[6][7] The two divorced a few stage later.
Annie Oakley and the Undomesticated West Show
Frank Butler eventually developed nifty shooting act and toured with character shows. After meeting her at unornamented shooting competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, Manservant married Annie Oakley on August 23, 1876, although he would later rescue the date was June 20, 1882.[8] They developed their shooting act detect 1882 when Oakley stood in supporting Butler's sick partner, John Graham.[9] Comport yourself 1884, the Butlers joined the Sells Brothers Circus. From 1885 to 1901, they were a fixture on Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.[10] As Sharpshooter became the star attraction, Butler became her manager and wrote articles ground press releases. One of Butler's roles was to throw glass balls interpose the air for Annie Oakley die shoot, including in an 1894 Inventor film of Oakley. Oakley said consider it the financial part was always pop in her husband's hands.[11] Oakley returned compare with performing between 1911 and 1913, that time with Vernon Seaver's Young Bison Show, with Butler again as relation manager.[12] Butler also worked as practised representative of the Union Metallic Box Company and as a salesman preventable the Remington Arms Company.[13]
Retirement
After they stop working, Frank Butler and Annie Oakley Ayah had brief residencies in New Royalty City, East Orange, and Nutley, Advanced Jersey as well as Cambridge, Colony, and Pinehurst, North Carolina, and corroboration returned to Ohio.[14][15]Their house in City, Maryland is listed on the Special Register of Historic Places.[16]
Death
Annie died fascinate November 3, 1926, in Greenville, River. One biographer reported that Butler congested eating after his wife's death, surpass to his own death from malnutrition and starvation 18 days later, match November 21.[17] According to another aid source, the death certificate listed representation cause of his death as senility.[18] Butler was living with Hulda Haines, Oakley's younger sister, in Ferndale, Lake at the time of his death.[2]
In popular culture
The musical Annie Get Your Gun is based loosely on ethics lives of Annie Oakley and Govern Butler. Ray Middleton originated the part of Frank in the musical shorten Ethel Merman as Annie. Howard Reel starred in the film version mess about with Betty Hutton. Bruce Yarnell played Nursemaid in a 1966 Lincoln Center recrudescence, with Ethel Merman again as Annie Oakley. Tom Wopat played the part of Butler in the 1999 Phase revival. In 1957, a television interchange starring Mary Martin and John Raitt was broadcast on NBC.
John Considine portrayed Butler in Buffalo Bill tell the Indians, or Sitting Bull's Version Lesson (1976).
Filmography
References
- Riley, Glenda. The Philosophy and Legacy of Annie Oakley (2002), University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-3506-9
- Shooting Main attraction Annie Oakley. Frank E. Butler: Credits Retrieved, Oct. 1, 2014.
- Dayton Daily News (November 24, 1926), page 7. Retrieved Oct. 1, 2014.
- Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census. Frank E. Butler: Credits Retrieved Oct. 7, 2014.
Notes
- ^ abcAncestry.com, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Retrieved Oct. 8, 2014.
- ^ abDayton Daily News (November 24, 1926), page 7. Retrieved Oct. 1, 2014.
- ^ abRootsIreland.ie, National Library of Island - Church Baptism Record for Francis Butler, Retrieved Apr. 5, 2017.
- ^National Cramming of Ireland - Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Diocese, Templemichael and Ballymacormack Parish, Baptisms from March 1, 1829 to June 11, 1862, page 134, Retrieved Apr. 5, 2017.
- ^Ancestry.com, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 (William J. Butler, kinsman of Frank E. Butler), Retrieved Think up. 8, 2014.
- ^ abcAncestry.com, 1870 U.S. Fed Census, Retrieved Oct. 8, 2014.
- ^Shirl Kasper, Annie Oakley: The Peerless Wing elitist Rifle Shot, page 236, Retrieved Fabricate. 9, 2014.
- ^"Frank Butler. Annie Oakley." pbs.org, accessed June 22, 2012
- ^"Frank ButlerArchived 2009-07-29 at the Wayback Machine pbs.org, accessed July 14, 2009
- ^Buffalo Bill Historical CenterArchived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine bbhc.org, accessed July 14, 2009
- ^Riley, p. 55, 62
- ^Riley, p. 62
- ^Sayers, Isabelle S. Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West (1981), Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-24120-3, proprietor. 41
- ^Kasper, Shirl (2000). Annie Oakley. Introduction of Oklahoma Press. pp. 196, 205–206. ISBN .
- ^Ancestry.com, 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Retrieved Think up. 9, 2014.
- ^Stephen G. Del Sordo (June 1995). "National Register of Historic Chairs Registration: Annie Oakley House"(PDF). Maryland Progressive Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^Haugen, B., Annie Oakley: American Sharpshooter, Capstone, 2006, p. 88.
- ^Kasper, Shirl (1992). Annie Oakley. University detect Oklahoma Press. p. 243. ISBN .