Amos William Butler

Amos William Butler (1 October 1860 – 5 August 1937) was an American naturalist and prison reformer.

Early life and education Amos Butler was born on 1 October 1860 in Brookville, Indiana to Hannah Wright Butler and William W. Butler. Butler's grandfather, also named Amos Butler, was the first settler of Brookville. and the International Committee on Mental Hygiene. He was also a member of several other organizations, including the American Ornithologists' Union, the Wilson Ornithological Club, the Biological Society of Washington, the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, and the Nature Study Club of Indiana. From 1897 to 1923, Butler served as Secretary of the Indiana Board of State Charities, where he began researching prison reform and mental disabilities. During his career, he served as president of the National Conference of Social Work and the American Prison Congress, and he was appointed the U.S. delegate to the International Prison Congress three times. He retired in 1930 and began researching the native peoples of Indiana, including silver trading at Fort Ouiatenon. and a snake, Butler's garter snake (Thamnophis butleri), were named after him. A chapter of the National Audubon Society in central Indiana is named the Amos Butler Audubon Society. His biography was included in Who's Who in America in 1903 and in American Men of Science in 1910.

Personal life Butler married Mary I. Reynolds and had at least one child, a daughter named Carrie Butler Watts.