DR. ELLIOTT PYLE HOME BUTLER, M NE Corner Pine & High Streets Built circa 1880
Dr. Elliott Pyle was born in 1827 in Ohio.
He attended medical school in Iowa and opened a practice there. In 1862 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the United States Hospital and joined the Second Iowa Regiment as a surgeon. He served most of that time in Arkansas. In 1867 he came to Butler and opened his medical practice.
He also started a drug business and became the leading druggist in the area. He was attentive to business and accumulated considerable property. He married Mary Walker and they had three children. She died and he married Anna Walker they had a daughter, Mary Eunice Pyle. She lived in the house immediately to the east of the Pyle residence.
The house underwent several remodelings when it became apartments and was later torn down.
