Butler (Pennsylvania)
Butler County
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Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with about 15,000 inhabitants.
The city has an area of 7 km ². It is located in the center of the county and is surrounded by the Butler Township.
The city is named after Maj. Gen.. Richard Butler named who fell at St. Clair 's struggle in the west of Ohio 1791. The first settlers were of Irish or Scottish descent and came from eastern settlements in Connecticut. 1802 was a German emigrant, Detmar Basse, to Jackson Township and founded a year later the village Zelienople. He was followed in 1805 Johann George Rapp Harmony with the settlement and then many other German emigrants because they remembered the area to Germany, via water is easily accessible and was blessed with good fields and coal deposits. In 1832 John A. Roebling established the city of Saxonburg; in the meantime, had German as good as settled everywhere.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Marc Blucas, actor
- Joan Chandler, Actress
- Jonathan W. Greenert, admiral of the U.S. Navy
- Bret Michaels, singer
- Brian Minto, Boxer
- Eric Namesnik, float
- Big John Studd, Wrestler