Background
Butler, Tait was born on July 24, 1862 in Hastings Company, Ontario, Canada. Son of James W. and Arvilla (Sine) Butler.
Butler, Tait was born on July 24, 1862 in Hastings Company, Ontario, Canada. Son of James W. and Arvilla (Sine) Butler.
Collegiate Institute, Saint Mary's, Ontario. V.S., Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada, 1885.
Professor veterinary science, veterinarian Experiment Station, Agricultural College of Mississippi, 1891-1896. Editor, public Southern Farm Gazette, Starkville, Mississippi, 1895-1898. Professor veterinary science and bacteriology, Kansas State Agricultural College, and state veterinarian of Kansas, 1900-1901.
Professor veterinary science, North Carolina College of Agriculture, 1901-1906.
State veterinarian of North Carolina, 1901-1908. Director Farmers’ Institutions of North Carolina, 1904-1908.
Editor Progressive Farmer, Memphis, Tennessee, since 1909. Vice president Progressive Farmer Company of Birmingham, Alabama, Raleigh, North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, and Dallas, Texas.
Married Dell Bell, August 8, 1893. Children: Eugene, Seta.