Asa King Butts
1837–87
American businessman and publisher. Director with responsibility for advertisement sales of the Index, published in Toledo, Ohio, until its relaunch in 1873. Edited and published pamphlets and books through Asa K. Butts & Company.
Sources
Abbot 1873
Connecticut town birth records, pre-1870 (Barbour collection) (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 November 2017)
United States Federal Census 1880 (Bayonne, Hudson, New Jersey 42/20D) (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 November 2017)
U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 November 2017)
Index, 21 June 1873, p. 1.
Bibliography
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1873. The inside history of the Index Association. A report on the recent “Index troubles” made to the stockholders of the Index Association, at their second annual meeting in Toledo, Ohio, June 7, 1873. Cambridge, Mass.: Press of John Wilson & Son.
