Charles Butts was born Sept 16 1863 at Portville NY to parents William Othello and Eliza Jane (Southworth) Butts. His early schooling was in Ohio and West Virginia where his father taught public school. He attended Friendship Academy for one year after family returned to New York. His father purchased a farm in Alfred NY so he could attend University there.where he spent equal time teaching as well as studying receiving his BS Degree.in 1899 and an MS Degree in 1900.
He joined the US Geological Survey in 1901 as Assistant Geologist and first married Mellye Arlage of Wash DC in 1903. He delivered the Alabama Coal survey in July 1906. While he was in Birmingham woking he stayed at the boarding house of Ella Pearson who was widowed the very day Charles Butts presented the Alabama Coal Survey on July 31, 1906.
Mellye died in 1907. He continued his work sometimes taking him to Birmingham and married Ella Rickles Pearson in 1909. He and his new family relocated to Washington DC in 1911. The US Geological Survey granted him title Geologist in 1912. In recognition for his work in Paleozoic geology of the Appalachian region including Alabama. Alabama State University awarded him Honorary Doctorate Degree in 1927. Although he was officially retired in 1933 by Federal Regulations, he was retained as Geologist by the Virginia Geological Survey to continue his work on the Appalachian Valley of Virginia until his death his death Oct 5 1946.
Dr Butts was a long time Fellow or Member of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society , the Geological Society of Washington and Washington Academy of Science.
Among his dozens of Published works is a book that is still used as college text to this day BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALABAMA - COALBED METHANE by Butts, Charles, 1926, The Paleozoic rocks, in Adams, G. I., Butts, Charles, Stephenson, L. W., and Cooke, C. W., Geology of Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey Special Report 14, p. 40-230.
He joined the US Geological Survey in 1901 as Assistant Geologist and first married Mellye Arlage of Wash DC in 1903. He delivered the Alabama Coal survey in July 1906. While he was in Birmingham woking he stayed at the boarding house of Ella Pearson who was widowed the very day Charles Butts presented the Alabama Coal Survey on July 31, 1906.
Mellye died in 1907. He continued his work sometimes taking him to Birmingham and married Ella Rickles Pearson in 1909. He and his new family relocated to Washington DC in 1911. The US Geological Survey granted him title Geologist in 1912. In recognition for his work in Paleozoic geology of the Appalachian region including Alabama. Alabama State University awarded him Honorary Doctorate Degree in 1927. Although he was officially retired in 1933 by Federal Regulations, he was retained as Geologist by the Virginia Geological Survey to continue his work on the Appalachian Valley of Virginia until his death his death Oct 5 1946.
Dr Butts was a long time Fellow or Member of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society , the Geological Society of Washington and Washington Academy of Science.
Among his dozens of Published works is a book that is still used as college text to this day BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALABAMA - COALBED METHANE by Butts, Charles, 1926, The Paleozoic rocks, in Adams, G. I., Butts, Charles, Stephenson, L. W., and Cooke, C. W., Geology of Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey Special Report 14, p. 40-230.
Charles Butts was born Sept 16 1863 at Portville NY to parents William Othello and Eliza Jane (Southworth) Butts. His early schooling was in Ohio and West Virginia where his father taught public school. He attended Friendship Academy for one year after family returned to New York. His father purchased a farm in Alfred NY so he could attend University there.where he spent equal time teaching as well as studying receiving his BS Degree.in 1899 and an MS Degree in 1900.
He joined the US Geological Survey in 1901 as Assistant Geologist and first married Mellye Arlage of Wash DC in 1903. He delivered the Alabama Coal survey in July 1906. While he was in Birmingham woking he stayed at the boarding house of Ella Pearson who was widowed the very day Charles Butts presented the Alabama Coal Survey on July 31, 1906.
Mellye died in 1907. He continued his work sometimes taking him to Birmingham and married Ella Rickles Pearson in 1909. He and his new family relocated to Washington DC in 1911. The US Geological Survey granted him title Geologist in 1912. In recognition for his work in Paleozoic geology of the Appalachian region including Alabama. Alabama State University awarded him Honorary Doctorate Degree in 1927. Although he was officially retired in 1933 by Federal Regulations, he was retained as Geologist by the Virginia Geological Survey to continue his work on the Appalachian Valley of Virginia until his death his death Oct 5 1946.
Dr Butts was a long time Fellow or Member of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society , the Geological Society of Washington and Washington Academy of Science.
Among his dozens of Published works is a book that is still used as college text to this day BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALABAMA - COALBED METHANE by Butts, Charles, 1926, The Paleozoic rocks, in Adams, G. I., Butts, Charles, Stephenson, L. W., and Cooke, C. W., Geology of Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey Special Report 14, p. 40-230.
He joined the US Geological Survey in 1901 as Assistant Geologist and first married Mellye Arlage of Wash DC in 1903. He delivered the Alabama Coal survey in July 1906. While he was in Birmingham woking he stayed at the boarding house of Ella Pearson who was widowed the very day Charles Butts presented the Alabama Coal Survey on July 31, 1906.
Mellye died in 1907. He continued his work sometimes taking him to Birmingham and married Ella Rickles Pearson in 1909. He and his new family relocated to Washington DC in 1911. The US Geological Survey granted him title Geologist in 1912. In recognition for his work in Paleozoic geology of the Appalachian region including Alabama. Alabama State University awarded him Honorary Doctorate Degree in 1927. Although he was officially retired in 1933 by Federal Regulations, he was retained as Geologist by the Virginia Geological Survey to continue his work on the Appalachian Valley of Virginia until his death his death Oct 5 1946.
Dr Butts was a long time Fellow or Member of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society , the Geological Society of Washington and Washington Academy of Science.
Among his dozens of Published works is a book that is still used as college text to this day BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALABAMA - COALBED METHANE by Butts, Charles, 1926, The Paleozoic rocks, in Adams, G. I., Butts, Charles, Stephenson, L. W., and Cooke, C. W., Geology of Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey Special Report 14, p. 40-230.
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