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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Mr. Butler’s Resignation. 
On Jan. 1 Mr. Frank E. Butler resigned from his im¬ 
portant position of professional trapshooter and mission¬ 
ary in the interests of the U. M. C. Co., after therewith 
several years of most pleasant relations and successful 
endeavor. 
In 1901, in the U. M. C. Co.’s shooting list, he suc¬ 
ceeded Mr. Jack Hallowell, a popular and able U. M. C. 
representative, and he was signally efficient and successful 
from the outset. His territory was eastern New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania—obviously an important area. 
We understand that, being possessed of an abundance 
of this world’s goods, he withdrew from strenuous busi¬ 
ness life to enjoy the wholesome repose and the inde¬ 
pendence which are justly his due, after so many years 
of activity in a field which spread the world over. 
As far back in time as 1876, he shot pigeon matches. 
Also he toured the country, giving skillful rifle exhibi¬ 
tions with a partner, under the name of Baughman and 
Butler. They first toured the United States, following 
which they toured through South America and Cuba. 
One of their favorite acts was to shoot peanuts off each 
other’s head. This stunt, one might readily fancy, could 
have been dispensed with, as affluence came to them 
apace, though they had many ups and downs of fortune. 
Later occurred the most fortunate event of Mr. Butler’s 
life, the marriage of himself to the charming Miss Annie 
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F. E. Butler 
Oakley, .who came to his acquaintance first as an op¬ 
ponent in a shooting match, signalling their first meet¬ 
ing by defeating him—and he lost his heart. 
For two years they shot together, and during seventeen 
years, in connection with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 
of which Mrs. Butler was the star attraction, they 
roamed the world over. Mr. Butler acted therewith as 
purchasing agent, and as Miss Oakley’s manager. All 
this broad business and advertising experience equipped 
him with a knowledge of the ways of the world and the 
skill of the press agent which he employed so success¬ 
fully in his recent professional field. 
In the winter of 1904 he was advance manager of the 
U. M. C. Southern Squad, which toured the South so 
successfully, one of the first to exploit that phase of ad¬ 
vertising in trapshooting. In the matter of press agent 
work he is an accomplished master. 
In the matter of skill with the shotgun, Mr. Butler 
is surpassed by many, though on this {joint he maintains 
that expert shooting is not a first requisite of a mission¬ 
ary, and his success bears out this view unquestionably. 
Yet his skill was not to be considered too lightly, for 
in 1906 he won the New Jersey State Championship, and 
was many times in the high averages at different tourna¬ 
ments. It is a fair assumption that he never considered 
the shooting end over seriously. 
In deportment Mr. Butler is quiet and unassuming, 
but no one would make a greater mistake than to infer 
therefrom that he isn’t strictly on the job. There is none 
of the brass-band annex to his methods. In his calm, 
amiable way, he was constantly furthering the interests 
of his company, all so smoothly conducted that the aver¬ 
age man didn’t realize that there was any business matter 
thought of. Beside his natural affability and talent for 
mixing with prince or working man alike, much of his 
fame is due to a nimble, keen wit, tempered by good 
sense, and unexcelled ability as an interesting raconteur, 
all of which hark back to the matter of good brains and 
plenty of them. It is safe to say that no man made 
more friends for himself and his company in the same 
number of years, and that no one’s retirement from the 
professional ranks is more heartily regretted. 
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