Butler, William
soldier, physician, state legislator, was born in 1759 in Prince William county, Pa. Soon after the war he was made a brigadier-general, and in 1796 major-general of militia. He was a member of the United States congress from 1801 to 1811. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of South Carolina, and for some years a member of the legislature; and in 1794 he was sheriff, and at one time magistrate. In the war of 1812 he commanded the South Carolina troops for state defense. He died Nov. 15, 1821, in Columbus, S. C.