John Gazzam Butler

Gen. John Gazzam Butler (January 23, 1842 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – August 17, 1914 in Portland, Oregon) was an American army officer and inventor.

He spent most of his career in the Ordnance Corps where he helped design and produce better ammunition for rifled guns.

After attending public schools in Pittsburgh, Butler entered Western University of Pennsylvania but in 1859 left for West Point, graduating in 1863.

Their son Lawrence Parker Butler (1868–1926) died in Walter Reed Hospital as a lieutenant colonel in the army infantry.

[7] Their daughter Harriet, a national tennis champion, married Jay Johnson Morrow, another West Point graduate who was in the United States Army Corps of Engineers and served as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1921 to 1924.