About Rachel Quick Buttz
Lived 1847 – 1923 (aged 75). Rachel Quick Buttz was a writer.
Rachel Nelson Quick Buttz ( – ) was an American memoirist and poet.
She was born Rachel Nelson Quick near Columbus, Indiana on , the daughter of Tunis Quick, a judge and state legislator, and Susannah Record Quick. She graduated from North-Western Christian University (now Butler University) in 1871, which was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. She married Samuel Buttz.
Buttz published two books. Blades and Blossoms (1911) was a collection of poetry. A Hoosier Girlhood (1924) was a memoir of her childhood that she wrote for her daughter Mabel.
Rachel Quick Buttz died on September 6, 1923, aged 75, in Bartholomew County, Indiana.
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1847-1923
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Rachel Quick Buttz was born on 14 October 1847 in Bartholomew County.
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