H. Karl Butler

H. Karl Butler or Henry Karl Butler (18 July 1882 – 13 December 1926) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the grandson of Edwin Merrill, an Akron clay products industrialist. Butler was born with Pott's disease, which is tuberculosis of the spine. He was disabled, his back was deformed, he walked with a limp, and he suffered constant joint pain. He was a businessman, political aide, philanthropist, and a benefactor to the Akron Area Council (now Great Trail Council ), Boy Scouts of America. his pastor at the Church of Our Savior. Atwater created an organization for boys called the Young Crusaders. In 1900, Butler went on the group's first campout, 10 years before Scouting officially started in the US. with the latter written from a military perspective and the former written for boys. The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910 by publisher William D. Boyce after learning of the Scouting movement during a trip to London. The first Akron Boy Scout troop was founded in 1910 by Reverend H. W. Lowrey of the First Presbyterian Church. In 1914, Akron Ohio had a Scout Council, and in 1916, it hired its first professional. now nearly 600 acres, consists of two adjacent camps: Camp Manatoc

and Camp Butler, the latter named to honor Karl Butler. In 2023, Great Trail Council celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the opening of Camp Manatoc.