Laura Chenoweth Butz

In 1899 Laura Chenoweth Butz moved with her family to Idaho. They first settled in Shoshone County. Beginning in 1900, Butz began to serve in the Wardner-Kellogg schools. This continued until 1923, including the eight years she served as Superintendent of Wardner-Kellogg City Schools.^[1]

Butz also served as assistant to the State Superintendent Research Secretary of the Department of Education in the capital, Boise, Idaho.^[1]

Active in educational work of the state, she became well-known as a lecturer with the Parent–Teacher Association.^[1]

In 1899 the Butz family moved from Kansas to Idaho. According to the 1900 United States census, she and her family lived at Wardner 1-2, Osburn, Shoshone, Idaho. This area, including the city of Kellogg, was dominated by the silver mining industry. Her husband died by 1928.^[1]

Butz was long a member of the Women's Federated Club and P.E.O. Sisterhood, which was founded in Iowa.^[1] She died on September 1, 1939. She is buried at Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.