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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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was born in this city in April, 1858. He wastaken to Paris, France, in 1869, and was there educated at Chap-tal College, receiving the degree of B. S. in 1877 from the Uni-versity of France. He then studied at the Polytechnic Schoolat Hanover, Germany, and finally came home, and was graduatedwith the degree of C. E. at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, New York, in 1882. Two years later he became a mem-ber of the New York Stock Exchange, of which he is still amember, though he has retired from business. Mr. Butts career has been largely military. While at the Poly-technic Institute he joined the Troy Citizens Corps. That wasin 1880. He was then a private of the Sixth Separate Company,N. G. N. Y. He was transferred to Company K, Seventh Regi-ment, January 30,1883; became second lieutenant, Company E,Twelfth Regiment, February 27,1885; first lieutenant, CompanyD, October 28, 1885; resigned November 14, 1887. He thenenlisted as private in Company K, Seventh Regiment, March 46 I
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McCOSKBY BUTT 47 24, 1888; was made first lieutenant and commissary of subsis-tence, Twelfth Regiment, February 19,1891; lieutenant-colonel,February 27, 1893; colonel, November 20, 1896; and brigadier-general, First Brigade, N. G. N. Y., March 3, 1898. In all these various capacities he was an exceptionally effectivemember and officer of the National Guard. Under him theTwelfth Regiment was made one of the crack regiments of theState, standing first in marksmanship and second in numbersonly to the Seventh. At the State camp at Peekskill, in 1895-97,he had the unequaled record of ninety-five per cent, of his menpresent. He served efficiently with his command in the Buffaloand Brooklyn strike riots of 1892 and 1895. Governor Mortonmade him inspector of guard duty at the Peekskill camp in 1895and 1896, and Governor Black, in 1897, made him a member of thecommission to prepare a new military code for the State troops.Governor Roosevelt made him president of the RegulationsBoard in 1899. A

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