Arthur Pierce Butler

Arthur Pierce Butler ( April 21, 1866 – December 23, 1953) was an American educator and school administrator. Butler co-founded the Morristown School (now the Morristown Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey.

Early life

Butler was born on April 21, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1884.

Butler then received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1888. He was also elected to the class committee. He belonged to the American Historical Association, the History Teachers Association of the Middle States and Maryland, and the Schoolmasters' Association.

Personal life

Butler married Lydia Raquet Farnham of Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 8, 1906. They had two children: Arthur Pierce Butler Jr. and Edwin Farnham Butler.

Butler was a member of the Boston Club, the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard Club of New York City, and the New Jersey Club. In Morristown, he belonged to the Shakespeare Club and the Friday Evening Club. He was an honorary member of the Northeast Harbor Fleet. Butler was a Unitarian.

Butler died on December 25, 1953, at the Mt. Desert Hospital in Southwest Harbor, Maine.