James Butler (grocer)

James Butler (grocer)

Infobox Person
name = James Butler


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birth_date = 1855
birth_place = County Kilkenny, Ireland
death_date = 1934
death_place = New York, U.S.
occupation = Businessman:
Grocery store founder
Race horse and race track owner
religion = Catholic

James Butler (1855–1934) [cite book |title=The New York Irish |last=Bayor |first=Ronald H. |coauthors=Timothy J. Meagher |year=1997 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=0801857643 |pages=p. 403 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WfCmS90xyEIC&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&source=web&ots=e2OvsnZ1tk&sig=xxCjODZ3ivDtLVvd9_0LhzXbXXA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result |accessdate=2008-08-20 ] was an American businessman from New York and prominent owner of racehorses and racetracks.

As a hotel steward in the early 1880s, Butler invested his $2,000 life savings with Patrick J. O'Connor (the son of his landlady) to open a grocery store on Second Avenue in New York. The business grew to a chain of stores so successful that Butler quit the hotel business and bought out O'Connor. By 1890, Butler had bought his first horses, and in the early 1900s he owned the Empire City Race Track. Butler had a net worth of $30 million by 1929. [cite news |title=Death of Butler |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747139,00.html |work=time.com |publisher=Time Inc. |date=1934-03-05 |accessdate=2008-08-20 ]

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