Physicians
The Twenty-first General Assembly, which met in 1886, passed a law requiring all persons desiring to practice medicine in any county of the state to have his certificate recorded in the office of the county recorder. Since the passage of this law, the following physicians, who have since removed from the county, have registered their certificates with the Butler county recorder:
In addition, these people have practiced for brief periods in the county: O. P. Thompson, Allison; T. A. Dumont, Dumont; E. A. Cantonwine, Parkersburg; W. C. Lathorp and M. A. Taylor, Clarksville; D. W. Battin and ____ Classen, Shell Rock.
| Allison | Clarksville | A. E. Kauffman |
| T. B. Askew |
D. S. Byers |
I. M. McBride |
| S. E. Burroughs | J. N Clemmer | D. H. Pelletier |
| Jerome Burbank | W. F. Gannon | Duncan Reed |
| P. R. Burroughs | T. D. Haner | C. P. Soper |
| E. A. Hazlet | W. H. Williams | D. M. Wick |
| James S. Riggs | J. F. Logan | |
| D. N. Reeve | W. E. Patterson | Parkersburg |
| Norman M. Smith | H. C. Smith | E. I. Bradley |
| Willis J. Vaupell | J. L Scripture | J. J. Fisher |
| C. C. Smith | H. C. Hunter | |
| Aplington | Leopold Lewis | |
| E.L. Blackmore | Dumont | M. A. Marty |
| Harriet N. Blackmore | W. E. Day | Hugh Mullarky, Jr. |
| John W. Cunningham | M. St. Peter | W. E. Noble |
| Thomas A. Hobson | M. I. Powers | |
| John A. Rolfs | Green | W. W. Parker |
| Charles W. Vroom | W. R. Arthur | A. O. Strout |
| Varillas Birney | ||
| Aredale | L. S. Boyce | Shell Rock |
| E. J. Thierman | A. H. Bruce | J. F. Auner |
| H. W. Wickman | V. C. Birney | E. H. Dudley |
| A. E. Cainey | Bruce Ensley | |
| Bristow | M. B. Call | J. R. W. Kirton |
| G. W. Appleby | H. M De War | F. N. Mead |
| E. H. Best | C. C. Huckins | W. H. Smith |
| H. E. Day | John Nevins | E. L Sheldon |
| A. J. Hobson | E. L. Thorp | |
| A. E. Rodgers | New Hartford | |
| R. E. Robinson | C. W. Childs | |
| John G. Evans | ||
| E. T. Jaynes |