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MINISTER IAL BIOGRAPH I CAL FORM
DETRO IT CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FILE
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Education? Medicine, etc. , etc.
PERSONAL H.J STORY :
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Re l igious Experience and Church Work before entering the Ministry- - - - - - - Attended Al bert Coll ege, Bellevill e, Qnt.;
We sleyan College
Montreal.
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Ca I I to the MIni stry _ _J:B~..t::e:i.:C:..cawmW:e~aE::L..!CL.:-J.l.t:!e..r.:r~g-.:J.yCl.lmll:aun.l-JlJ.Jmwd~ee.r:r~t.L:bU:e~i'-'nJ.Jf~l.l..',~,e~nUI,;.c-t;:e~o'-"f,.--
our home life.
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Ed ucat ion:
Schoo l s and Degrees - --High School ____ ________ __ _ _ __
Col l ege ________ _ _ _ _ __ sem inar y _________ _ __ __ _ _ ____
Post -Graduate _ _ _ _ _ ____________________ __ ___________
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Admitted on Trial, and Ordinations:
On trial
1913,
Minnesota Conference
Page 2
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Marriage :
Date _ Dec.- 2j., ... l9L4:._ Pi ace
. -Ilatroit, Michigan_ _ _ _ _ _ __
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Wife's maiden name..:._Margar.et Edna B Gib.son._. __ ··--Education~--~-------------------------~----------------
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Chi Idren:
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Appointments served, with dates:
Name
William Gibson Bu.~t"""t'-------- Date of Birth May 11 , 1916
1913 Granada, Minn.; 1915 Wa terville~ Minn.
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1916 Detrait Conference; Port Austin;
1930 Romeo;
1935 Fenton;
1939 Alpena;
1919 Harbor Beach;
1945 Yale;
1924 L'Anse;
1948 Berkley;
1957 Retired; (R.S.) 1958 Wheatfield.
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Offices held in the Conference, or on District:
Served on Conference committee s.
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Public or Community Offices:
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Service Record with U. S. Armed Forces :
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Writings --Articles or Books :
Dean--General Bd. of Education41t
··P-age 3
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Clubs and Frater nal Organizations:
past president 1 Rotary; F.t A. M.
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List one or two items which you consider outstBnd l ng in yo ur Ministry ;
such as a Bu i !ding Program 1 an Evangelistic Cr usade, an exceptiona l Class
of New Members, some bit of community serv ice, etc.
The six years spent on the L' Anse cnarge when I worked with the
I ndi ans at zeba Mission.
The buil ding of the Church i n Berkl ey
dur i ng my pastorate.
In my retired relationship serving the
Wheatfield Church.
Mrs. Andrew T. F. Butt
C L I P P I NG S
RS. Margaret Edna Gibson Butt,
~he leaves in addition -t~ -h'e~b";;;band
wife of Rev . Andrew T. F. Butt, pE
two sons, Dr. William G., Associate Pro~
pasto1· of the Wheatfield church, died
fessor of Englis h at Central M' h'
l\Tonday, Jul y G, at the Crittenden
1c 1gan
. lllV~rsity, and Andrew Frear, AdminGenera l Hospital in De t1·oit afte1· an illts tratJve Assis tant to the C' t M
ness of several months .
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anager
0f. B.Irmmg
am, Michigan; one grandson,
Mrs. Butt was hom May 14, 1891 in
Stephen G_., of Mount Pleasant; a brother
Lucan, Ontario, a nd moved with her
Ronald
Gibson of Whitewater·
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s m; and a s is ter, Mrs. Beatrice V.
land of Walled Lake.
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The memorial service for Mrs B tt
wa s conducted at the Berkley Meth 0d~1 t
church on July 8 by Dr. Amold F R k s
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t 01 . 0f F'n·st Methodist Chur·ch
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mg a m, a nd Rev. Fred Andrews of
Berkley. ~he burial was in Acacia Park
Cemetery m Southfield. Ushers of th
Berkley a nd Wh eatfield Churches serve~
as palibearers.
Mrs. A. T. F. Butt
parents at the age of five to Michigan.
~n addition to _a lifetime of church work
1\-I! s. Butt was mterested in and
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She attended the public schools in Ubly.
part'ICJ. th
pa t ed m·t· e activities of the va nous
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On December 23, 1914, she was marcommum 1es which she a 11d h er h us band
ri ed to Mr. Butt in Detroit where the
She was a pas t W th M
ceremony was performed by Dr. John - seJ·ved.
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or Y atron
o . t e Order of the Eas tern Star and a
Sweet. Following the ceremony she
LJf~ Me~ber of Lakeside Chapter at
and Mr. Butt retumed to Minnesota
Port Austm.. During W orld W ar II she
where they served churches in Grenada
t oo I< an active role in R d C
and Waterville before ente ring the Dee
ross \vork
an d was for many yea .
troit Conference in 1916. As a loyal
t he work of th M' .rs mstrumental in
pastor's wife, sh e assi s ted in the min'
Women's CJ b e •ch•gan F e dera t 1on
of
is try of the church at Port Austin,
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Harbor Beach, L'Anse, Romeo, F enton,
Alpena, Yale a nd Berkley. In 1957 Mr.
l and Mrs. Butt retit·ed from active servn a
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ice but continued to minister to the for a Y ddt tiona I Information
Wheatfield church.
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Friends Honor Rev. A. T. F. Butt
An open house was held Sunday
October 14, at the Wheatfield church
annex honoring Rev. Andrew T. F. Butt,
pas tor. Among the 200 g uests were a
brother, Rev. Gordon Butt, a retired minister of the United Church of Canada,
Wind sor, who preached in the morning
service, and !\Irs. Butt; Mrs. Luther Butt
of Albion; a nd Mr. Butt's two sons from
Mt. Pleasant and Birmingham.
Mr. Butt beg·a n his ministry at Wheatf ield in 1957 when he and Mrs. Butt
moved to Williams ton following retirement from t he Detroit Conference. She
died in July 1959. In addition to a contribution of money, t he honored g uest
was presented with a large inkwell made
by Glen Wa tkins.
It was fashioned
of black walnut and will be added to the
coll ection which the pastor has accumulated.
The event was hos ted by the Woman's
Society. Greeting the guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Fis her and Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Watkins. The g uest book was in
charge of Mrs. Vernon Bird. Those pre-
Rev. Andrew Butt honored at open house.
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s iding- at the refreshment table, g raced
with a decorated cal'e with a smull model
church on top, wer e Mrs. Myron Whipple,
Mrs. Alvin Launstein, and Mrs. Arthur
DuBreui l. Assisting were Mrs. Lester
Warner, l\Irs. \Vallace Johnson, Mrs. Asa
Gre e n man, Mrs. Kyle Gregg, Mrs.
Byron Brodberg, Carol Murphy, Gladys
Schooler , Carolyn Allen, Cheryl Wes t,
and Cindy Whipple.
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