{"id":13507,"date":"2013-06-04T01:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=13507"},"modified":"2013-06-04T01:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:59:27","slug":"e-r-butterworth-sons-undertakers-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2013\/06\/04\/e-r-butterworth-sons-undertakers-seattle-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"E.R. Butterworth &#038; Sons &#8211; Undertakers &#8211; Seattle, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/washington\/seattle-er-butterworth.jpg?resize=580%2C386\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken from Public Market Promenade on August 2, 2009 \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Edgar Ray Butterworth<\/b>\u00a0(March 3, 1847 \u2013 January 1, 1921) was an\u00a0American\u00a0funeral director, believed to have coined the professional terms\u00a0<i>mortuary<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>mortician..<\/i>..\u00a0In 1892, by now a successful businessman, he relocated to\u00a0Seattle, where he went into the undertaking business in a bigger way.He purchased a controlling interest in the Cross &amp; Co. Undertakers\u00a0located in the Masonic Temple\u00a0that then stood on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Ray_Butterworth\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Also on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleghost.com\/display\/ShowJournal?moduleId=1001294&amp;registeredAuthorId=139616&amp;currentPage=11\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Ghosts<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Ray Butterworth\u00a0(March 3, 1847 \u2013 January 1, 1921) was an\u00a0American\u00a0funeral director, believed to have coined the professional terms\u00a0mortuary\u00a0and\u00a0mortician&#8230;.\u00a0In 1892, by now a successful businessman, he relocated to\u00a0Seattle, where he went into the undertaking business in a bigger way.He purchased a controlling interest in the Cross &amp; Co. Undertakers\u00a0located in the Masonic Temple\u00a0that then stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643,1361,1561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-seattle-wa","category-undertakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-3vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13511,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13507\/revisions\/13511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}