Divisions Edwin Sebastian Butz (1864 – July 1956) was a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionary who was active in Oceania and in Australia.

In 1895 he came to the South Pacific with his wife Florence and daughter Alma on the third voyage of the SDA schooner Pitcairn.

[2] There they joined the first SDA missionaries, Edward Hilliard and his wife Ida, who had arrived the previous year.

[2] The Butz's tried to establish a permanent mission, but were mainly limited to working with the small papalagi (European) colony.

[3] In 1901 Butz attended the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in Battle Creek College, where he was ordained to the ministry.

[1] On 14 February 1929 Pastor and Mrs. Edwin S. Butz touched at Pitcairn on the passenger liner Remuera I, bound from Wellington to Southampton, after a 34-year absence.