physician, wholesale druggist, b. Wallingford, Vt. He graduated from Brown Univ. (B.A., 1842), and the College of the City of N.Y. (M.D., 1845). He practiced in Brooklyn, N.Y. (1846- 1848). In 1849 he moved to Milwaukee, where he established a retail drugstore in partnership with Thomas A. Greene (q.v.). The business expanded rapidly and in later years became the Milwaukee Drug Company, one of the largest drug wholesalers in the Midwest. Button was prominent in numerous Milwaukee businesses, including the Milwaukee Gas Light Co. (president), and was a director of the Northwestern Life Insurance Co. He was a member of national and local druggists' associations, and was a trustee of Milwaukee Academy. Milwaukee Journal, Feb. 14, 1890; Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb. 15, 1890; H. L. Conard, ed., Hist. of Milwaukee (3 vols., Chicago [I896]); WPA field notes.

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