The New Student's Reference Work/Butler, Pa.
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But′ler, Pa., the chief town of Butler County, western Pennsylvania, 27 miles north of Pittsburg. It has a number of flour, planing and silk mills, and extensive glass factories, whose motive power is derived from natural gas. Butler’s largest industry is a steel-car works employing 5,000 men; it also has a large oil-refinery and furniture-factory. Four lines of railroads pass through it. Population, 20,728.