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Butler, Pierce Mason

soldier, was born April 11, 1798, in Edgefield, S. C.

He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1823, and attained the grade of captain in 1825. After four years of service he resigned his commission, and in 1829 became a resident of Columbia, S. C., and was elected president of a bank established at that place. He was killed in battle Aug. 20, 1847, in Churubusco, Mexico. was

Butler, Richard

soldier, born in Ireland. He attained the rank of colonel in the revolutionary war, and in 1791 was made a major-general. He was tomahawked and scalped Nov. 4, 1791, in an expedition against the Indians.

Butler, Richard

soldier, merchant, manufacturer, was born Aug. 9, 1831, in Birmingham, Ohio. In 1879 he accepted the presidency of an extensive hard rubber company, which was organized in 1883 as the Butler Hard Rubber company.

Butler, Samson H

congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1840 to 1843.

Butler, Simeon

publisher, manufacturer, author, was born in 1770. In 1792 he established the first publishing house in western Massachusetts at Northampton. He printed the earliest American edition of Vattel's Law of Nations, and the first volume of Massachusetts supreme court reports, and brought out Dwight's School Geography. He also engaged in paper-making, and manufactured the first domestic letter paper used by the United States senate. He died in 1847 in Northampton, Mass.

Butler, Thomas

congressman, was born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1818 to 1821. He died Aug. 14, 1847.

Butler, Thomas Belden

lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 22, 1806, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a Connecticut jurist whose Philosophy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later in enlarged form as a Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System. He served in the Connecticut state legislature; and was a representative in congress in 1849-51. He died June 8, 1873, in Norwalk, Conn.

Butler, Thomas S

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1855, in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Chester county bar, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Butler, Walt H

congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1852, in Springboro, Pa. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Butler, William

congressman, was born in Columbia, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1841 to 1843.

Butler, William

lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1879 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

Butler, William

missionary, author, was born in 1819 in Ireland. He is a methodist missionary, and the author of The Land of the Veda; From Boston to Bareilly and Back; and Mexico in Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and Religious Liberty.