Edward Hubert Butler Sr.

Edward Hubert Butler I (c. 1850 - March 9, 1914) was the founder of The Buffalo Evening News in 1880.

[1] He was born in about 1850 in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York and attended local schools.

His news career began with the local paper The Le Roy Gazette (in Le Roy, New York), then moved on to The Scranton Times as city editor and the same position at The Scranton Free Press.

He was the father of Edward Hubert Butler Jr., who was publisher and editor of the Evening News as well as owner of two local radio stations.

Butlter Sr. married Mary Elizabeth Barber in 1871, who died in 1893.