Newspaper Article: Charles Butler is Daed

Date: December 14 1897
Era: The Early Years
Description: Obituary of Charles Butler owner of Fox Meadow in Scarsdale NY upon which the early courts of the Scarsdale Lawn Tennis Club (the predecessor of Fox Meadow Tennis Club) were built. He had acquired 358 acres by 1887 and his only surviving chils, Emily O. Butler owned 491 acres stretching from Wayside Lane to Fenimore Road and from Tompkins Road to the Bronx River. Emily Butler leased land to FMTC in 1911 and then sold them the land that the current club is situated on in 1923

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