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Alfred Mosher Butts was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on April 13, 1899, [1] to Allison Butts and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher. His father was a lawyer, and his mother a high school teacher. Alfred attended Poughkeepsie High School and graduated in 1917. He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1924.
Apr 7, 1993 · Alfred M. Butts, who as a jobless architect in the Depression invented the enduringly popular board game Scrabble, died on Sunday at a hospital in his hometown, Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 93.
Butts, Alfred Mosher. ( b. 13 April 1899 in Poughkeepsie, New York; d. 4 April 1993 in Rhinebeck, New York ), architect and inventor of the board game Scrabble. Butts was the youngest of five boys born to Allison Butts, a lawyer, and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher, a high school teacher. Both parents were descended from Dutchess County, New York, farm ...
Dec 26, 2019 · Read Part 2 here and Part 3 here. On the morning of March 18, 1985, Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of Scrabble, boarded a private plane at the Dutchess County Airport outside of Poughkeepsie ...
Apr 10, 1993 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who created the durable board game Scrabble, which he dubbed simply “It” six decades ago, has died. He was 93. Butts died Sunday at a ...
Consumer Devices. After being laid off from his job at an architecture firm in 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts fell on hard times. He was out of work for quite some time when he decided to get creative. With his newfound spare time, he thought he would try to invent a game. He did some research and found that there were three basic types of games ...
Apr 8, 1993 · Alfred Mosher Butts, architect and inventor: born 1900; died Rhinebeck, New York 4 April 1993. ALFRED BUTTS was one of those men whose invention, the word-game Scrabble, became bigger than he ...
Alfred Mosher Butts. Inventor Of Scrabble, April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993. After working as an architect Alfred Butts decided to design a board game. He researched existing games and decided to create a game by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles. After studying the front page of The New York Times, he used each letter's ...
Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who invented the enduring board game Scrabble, died Sunday at a hospital. He was 93. Butts died of natural causes, said Chris Chestney, owner of Dapson-Chestney Funeral Home. Butts received patents for several architectural structural systems he designed and was an accomplished artist and photographer. He ...
Apr 7, 1993 · Alfred Mosher Butts, inventor of the popular board game Scrabble, died Sunday. He was 93. Butts received several patents for architectural structural systems and was an accomplished artist and photographer.It was during the Great Depression, when there was little architectural work, that he invented the enduring board game.
