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492 BUTLER BUTT eral, and by presenting him with extensive domains. He died shortly after his participa- tion in the battle of Nordlingen, Sept. 6, 1634, and was buried in Bohemia, lie bequeathed large sums to Roman Catholic missions, and made donations to his sister and to Devereux, who succeeded him in the command of his regi- ment, lie figures as one of the characters in Schiller's Wallenstein. See Carve, Itinerarium, cum Hutoria Facti Butleri, Gordon, Lesly et Aliorum (3 vols., Mentz and Spire, 1640-'46). BUTLER, William, an American soldier, born in Prince William county, Va., about 1757, died at Columbia, S. C., in 1821. He grad- uated at South Carolina college as a physician, became lieutenant in the army of Lincoln in 1779, was engaged in the battle of Stono, and served in the corps of Pulaski. At the first rising of the partisan leaders in the Carolines, Butler joined the troops under Pickens, served with Lee under Greene, after whose defeat at Ninety-Six he took the field as a partisan, rose to a command in the mounted rangers, and took part in many sharp encounters with the tories, being usually employed in movements which demanded boldness and celerity. In 1787 he was a member of the convention to consider the adoption of the federal constitution, against which he voted, was subsequently a member of the convention which formed the constitu- tion of South Carolina, and held several civil offices. In 1796 he was elected major general of militia. In 1800 he was chosen a member of congress, and in 1806 was appointed chair- man of the committee of investigation in the case of Gen. Wilkinson, who was charged with complicity in the Burr conspiracy. He resign- ed his seat in congress in 1813 to make way for John 0. Calhoun ; and in 1814 he was called by the governor to take command of the forces of South Carolina, supposed to be in danger of invasion by the British. At the close of the war he retired to his plantation. He was father of A. P. Butler, United States senator, and of William Butler, who was a member of congress for a single term. BUTLER, William, D. D., an American clergy- man and missionary, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1819. He completed his theological training at Didsbury, near Manchester, England, in 1842, and joined the Irish Wesleyan conference in 1844. After preaching six years in the Irish conference, and six more in the New York East and New England conferences in America, he was sent in 1856 to India to select a field and found a mission for the Methodist Episcopal church, and established the Methodist missions in the valley of the Ganges. During nearly ten years he labored there, until the mission was ' erected into an annual conference in 1864. He then returned to the United States, preached for some time in New England, and became one of the secretaries of the American and foreign Christian union. He is the author of a "Missionary Compendium" (1850), and "The Land of the Veda " (8vo, 1872). BUTLER, William Allen, an American lawyer and poet, born in Albany, N. Y., in 1825. He graduated at the university of the city of New York in 1843, studied law with his father, B. F. Butler, and after travelling in Europe from 1846 to 1848 entered upon the practice of his profession in New York. In 1846 he published "The Future," an academic poem; in 1850, "Barnurn's Parnassus," a volume of the char- acter of the "Rejected Addresses;" in 1857, "Nothing to Wear," and in 1858, "Two Mil- lions," both satirical poems ; in 1862, " Martin Van Buren," a biographical sketch, and in 1871, " Lawyer and Client " and his collected poems. BUTLER, William Orlando, an American sol- dier and politician, born in Jessamine county, Ky., in 1793. He studied law, and at the be- ginning of the war of 1812 enlisted as a pri- vate, was in the battles of Frenchtown and the river Raisin, was wounded, rose to be captain, served at Pensacola and New Orleans, was breveted major in December, 1814, and be- came aide-de-camp to Gen. Jackson. In 1817 he resigned, and entered upon the practice of the law in Kentucky. He was elected to con- gress in 1843, and was an unsuccessful candi- date for governor in 1844. At the beginning of the Mexican war he reentered the army, was made major general June 29, 1846, and led the charge at Monterey, where he was wounded. For his gallantry here a sword was voted to him by congress. On Feb. 18, 1848, he succeeded Gen. Scott in command of the army in Mexico, which he held till May 29. In 1848 he was the democratic candidate for vice president. In 1856 he was appointed governor of Nebraska by President Pierce, but declined. He was a member of the peace congress of 1861. He wrote "The Boatman's Horn," and other short poems. BUTT, Isaat, an Irish lawyer, politician, and author, born at Glenfin, county Donegal, Ire- land, in 1813. He was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, where he obtained a scholar- ship in 1832, graduated in 1835, was appointed Whately professor of political economy in 1836, and called to the Irish bar in 1840. He was elected a member of the corporation of Dub- lin, and in 1843 opposed O'Connell's agitation for a repeal of the union. In the Irish state trials of 1848 he acted as counsel for Smith O'Brien and others, and in 1865 for several of the Fenian prisoners. In 1850 he was an un- successful candidate for parliament for Mayo, but was elected for Harwich, and in 1852 for Youghal, which he represented till 1865, and in 1871 was returned for Limerick, in the interest of the "national and home rule" movement, of which ho was the originator. He is a magistrate for the county of Cork. He was one of the projectors of the "Dublin Univer- sity Magazine," of which he was for some time editor, and to which he contributed " Chapters of College Romance," republished in a separate form. In 1860 he published a "History of the Kingdom of Italy," and in 1870 a "Practical