Charles Horace Butrick was born around 1847 in Wisconsin to Horace and Ada Butrick. His father was a farmer and wagon maker who owned $700 of real estate and $800 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Salem, Wisconsin, and he married Sarah Eliza Bowen on September 15, 1868. Their son Charles was born around 1870. He worked as a painter in Salem, and by 1870, he owned $800 of real estate and $270 of personal property. He died sometime after July 1870.