Person:Harold Butler (5)

Harold Abbott ("Butt" to his friends) was born on May 25, 1895 in Mansfield, Mass. His parents were Lucius Abbott Butler and Annie Bird Morton Butler. He had an older sister, Gertrude, and one younger sister, Doris. Doris died before she reached the age of 1.

He then graduated from Brown University in 1917 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After graduation he worked with General Electric Company in Schenectady and Pittsfield in eastern New York in their Testing Department until September 1919. Being opposed to cold weather, the G.E. Co. helped him to obtain a position with the Havana Electric Railway Co. which was later merged with an American Foreign Power Company, subsidiary, operating outside of Havana. This new company was called Campania Cubana de Electricidad and it supplied most of the electricity used in Cuba and also service to Havana. His first assignment with GE was at the Tallapiedra Power Plant. When he first moved to Cuba, Harold, likely a confirmed bachelor, lived in hotels and ate mainly at Chinese restaurants. He apparently settled into life in Cuba and never showed any indication of wanting to return to the Northeast.

About 1927 he went to live in a boarding house at M and 19 streets in Vedado, Cuba. There he met his future wife the lovely Ofelia Salazar Roges. ("Sally") See "How Harry Met Sally". They were married July 4, 1928.

This and much more is documented at http://www.butlerlink.com a website made by his grand-daughter Susan Butler.