Edward M. Butz was an architect from Allegheny, later the North Side of Pittsburgh, most famous for the sprawling Romanesque Western Penitentiary. This obituary gives his birth date as 1859. The Allegheny West site, which is devoted to the neighborhood in which he lived, gives a birth date of 1850. More pictures of the Western Penitentiary are at Father Pitt.
E. M. Butz, of E. M. Butz & Co., Ltd., and widely known throughout the country as an architect and engineer, died on Sept. 4 at his home on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Mr. Butz was born in Allegheny in 1859. He was identified with the construction of some of the finest buildings in western Pennsylvania and had been a pioneer in the steel business and promoter and builder of the Columbia Iron and Steel Co.’s plant at Uniontown, of which for several years he was General Manager. Mr. Butz retired from active business about six years ago.