Butler (Pennsylvania)
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| Foundation : | 1802 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Butler County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 52 ′ N , 79 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 15,121 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 2,160.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 7.0 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of which 7.0 km 2 (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 318 m | ||
| Postal code : | 16001 | ||
| Area code : | +1 724 | ||
| FIPS : | 42-10464 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1170789 | ||
| Website : | www.co.butler.pa.us | ||
| Mayor : | Margaret Stock | ||
Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the US state of Pennsylvania with approximately 15,000 inhabitants.
The city has an area of 7 km². It is in the middle of the county and is surrounded by the Butler Township .
The city is named after Maj. Gen. Named Richard Butler , who died in St. Clair's Battle in western Ohio in 1791. The first settlers were of Irish or Scottish descent and came from eastern Connecticut settlements . In 1802 a German emigrant, Detmar Basse , came to Jackson Township and founded the village of Zelienople the following year . He was followed in 1805 by Johann George Rapp with the Harmony settlement and then by many other German emigrants because the area reminded of Germany, is easily accessible by water and was blessed with good fields and coal deposits. In 1832 John A. Röbling established the city of Saxonburg; in the meantime Germans had settled down almost everywhere.
sons and daughters of the town
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (1809-1882), politician
- Alfred Gilmore (1812–1890), politician
- William George Thompson (1830-1911), politician
- Joan Chandler (1923–1979), actress
- Jay Last (* 1929), physicist
- Big John Studd (1948-1995), wrestler
- Jonathan W. Greenert (* 1953), Admiral in the US Navy
- Debora Weber-Wulff (* 1957), computer scientist and plagiarism expert
- Bret Michaels (* 1963), singer
- Eric Namesnik (1970-2006), swimmer
- Marc Blucas (born 1972), actor
- Brian Minto (born 1975), boxer
- Don Kelly (born 1980), baseball player
- Grace Gealey (born 1984), actress
- Paul Posluszny (born 1984), American football player
- Meghan Schnur (* 1985), soccer player
Web links
- 1883 History of Butler County (English)
- The Butler Pennsylvania Poems ( October 26, 2009 memento on WebCite )
- The Butler Pennsylvania Blog ~ (in Engl.)