Captain Tygard started the Brush Electric Light and Power Company. He was credited with bringing electric lights to the town of Butler, Missouri on December 6, 1881. Butler was the first town in Missouri to have this. In fact, it was the first town west of the Mississippi River to have electric and all thanks to Captain F. J. Tygard.
The Chillicothe Constitution newspaper of April 27, 1907: "F.J. Tygardis indicted. Kansas ity, April 27 - The federal grand jury this morning indcted Flavius J. Tygard of Butler charging him with the misapplication of funds of the Bates County National Bank of Butler, Mo, and other cororations. The indictment contains eleven counts. Captain Tygard is now in an insane asylum." The December 28, 1907 edition of The Evening News (Ada, Oklahoma) in the icle entitled, "Ex-Bankers In Prison" - " Leavenworth, Kan. - Capt. Flavius J. Tygard the former Butler (Mo.) banker, and the twenty-first member of the bankers' colony in the nited States Penitentiary here, is in porr health and has spent most of his time in the prison hospital since his arrival." The article went on to say they call it "Bankers Row" because so many bankers are in there. His incarceration date was November9 1907, inmate number 5939, to serve 5 years to January 1911.
However, he must've got out for good behavior earlier than that as he is in the 1910 census, Mt. Pleasant, Bates, MO, as being age 70 and widowed. However, he soon was transferred to Memorial Home in St. Louis City, MO where he died on April 3, 1911, and brought back to Oak Hill for burialon April 5th, 1911.
The Chillicothe Constitution newspaper of April 27, 1907: "F.J. Tygardis indicted. Kansas ity, April 27 - The federal grand jury this morning indcted Flavius J. Tygard of Butler charging him with the misapplication of funds of the Bates County National Bank of Butler, Mo, and other cororations. The indictment contains eleven counts. Captain Tygard is now in an insane asylum." The December 28, 1907 edition of The Evening News (Ada, Oklahoma) in the icle entitled, "Ex-Bankers In Prison" - " Leavenworth, Kan. - Capt. Flavius J. Tygard the former Butler (Mo.) banker, and the twenty-first member of the bankers' colony in the nited States Penitentiary here, is in porr health and has spent most of his time in the prison hospital since his arrival." The article went on to say they call it "Bankers Row" because so many bankers are in there. His incarceration date was November9 1907, inmate number 5939, to serve 5 years to January 1911.
However, he must've got out for good behavior earlier than that as he is in the 1910 census, Mt. Pleasant, Bates, MO, as being age 70 and widowed. However, he soon was transferred to Memorial Home in St. Louis City, MO where he died on April 3, 1911, and brought back to Oak Hill for burialon April 5th, 1911.
Captain Tygard started the Brush Electric Light and Power Company. He was credited with bringing electric lights to the town of Butler, Missouri on December 6, 1881. Butler was the first town in Missouri to have this. In fact, it was the first town west of the Mississippi River to have electric and all thanks to Captain F. J. Tygard.
The Chillicothe Constitution newspaper of April 27, 1907: "F.J. Tygardis indicted. Kansas ity, April 27 - The federal grand jury this morning indcted Flavius J. Tygard of Butler charging him with the misapplication of funds of the Bates County National Bank of Butler, Mo, and other cororations. The indictment contains eleven counts. Captain Tygard is now in an insane asylum." The December 28, 1907 edition of The Evening News (Ada, Oklahoma) in the icle entitled, "Ex-Bankers In Prison" - " Leavenworth, Kan. - Capt. Flavius J. Tygard the former Butler (Mo.) banker, and the twenty-first member of the bankers' colony in the nited States Penitentiary here, is in porr health and has spent most of his time in the prison hospital since his arrival." The article went on to say they call it "Bankers Row" because so many bankers are in there. His incarceration date was November9 1907, inmate number 5939, to serve 5 years to January 1911.
However, he must've got out for good behavior earlier than that as he is in the 1910 census, Mt. Pleasant, Bates, MO, as being age 70 and widowed. However, he soon was transferred to Memorial Home in St. Louis City, MO where he died on April 3, 1911, and brought back to Oak Hill for burialon April 5th, 1911.
The Chillicothe Constitution newspaper of April 27, 1907: "F.J. Tygardis indicted. Kansas ity, April 27 - The federal grand jury this morning indcted Flavius J. Tygard of Butler charging him with the misapplication of funds of the Bates County National Bank of Butler, Mo, and other cororations. The indictment contains eleven counts. Captain Tygard is now in an insane asylum." The December 28, 1907 edition of The Evening News (Ada, Oklahoma) in the icle entitled, "Ex-Bankers In Prison" - " Leavenworth, Kan. - Capt. Flavius J. Tygard the former Butler (Mo.) banker, and the twenty-first member of the bankers' colony in the nited States Penitentiary here, is in porr health and has spent most of his time in the prison hospital since his arrival." The article went on to say they call it "Bankers Row" because so many bankers are in there. His incarceration date was November9 1907, inmate number 5939, to serve 5 years to January 1911.
However, he must've got out for good behavior earlier than that as he is in the 1910 census, Mt. Pleasant, Bates, MO, as being age 70 and widowed. However, he soon was transferred to Memorial Home in St. Louis City, MO where he died on April 3, 1911, and brought back to Oak Hill for burialon April 5th, 1911.
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