Rachel Quick Buttz

Rachel Nelson Quick Buttz was an American memoirist and poet.
She was born Rachel Nelson Quick near Columbus, Indiana on, the daughter of Tunis Quick, a judge and state legislator, and Susannah Record Quick. She graduated from North-Western Christian University in 1871, which was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. She married Samuel Buttz.
Buttz published two books. Blades and Blossoms was a collection of poetry. A Hoosier Girlhood was a memoir of her childhood that she wrote for her daughter Mabel.
Rachel Quick Buttz died on September 6, 1923, aged 75, in Bartholomew County, Indiana.