Edwin Butler - Publisher & Editor
Edwin Butler publisher and editor of the
Stark County News was born at Kewanee Illinois(Henry County) on January 9, 1841. Moving to Milan IL he remained there until 1849 when he came to Toulon. Here he attended some of the many private schools then existing at the county seat, was a pupil at the seminary and completed a four year's classical course at Know College in June 1861. During the next winter he taught the "Dutch Island" school in Essex Township. On August 11, 1862 he enlisted in Company F, One-hundred and twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was appointed 2nd Sergeant, promoted orderly and served three years. In September 1863, he was detailed to assist in printing the Athens
Union Post in the office of the supressed Athens
Post. On the 17th the first number appeared and contained a well written salutatory, from which the following extract is made :
"Our first issue of the Athens Union Post will present quite a different appearance to what it did, when Union was not attached to its title....The former editor, Mr. Irvins, probably not thinking that we would want to issue the paper in his absence, took with him nearly all of the material necessary to give it a genteel appearance." The motto of the new paper was
"Our country, may she ever be right; but our country right or wrong." Mr. Butler worked faithfully on the Post until the sudden evacuation of Athens when he was captured in the office.
While with the rebels he tasted the sweets of prison life at Atlanta, Danville, Richmond; from March to September in their notorious hotel at Andersonville; next at Charleston and then at Florence South Carolina. In Dec. 1864 he.......SORRY MORE TO COME
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