{"id":3156,"date":"2022-01-10T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:34:21","slug":"butler-charles-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/butler-charles-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler, Charles Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Edward Butler<\/strong>, merchant and citizen of Fulton, holding an interest in
\nthe firm of A. C. Lea & Co., was born in Hallowell, Me., October 16, 1826, and
\nis a son of Elijah and Lou (Kersey) Butler. His father was born in Maine, and
\ndied in 1846, and his mother was also a native of that State, but died in
\nAberdeen, Miss., about 1864. Our subject is of English-Scotch descent. Until
\ntwenty-four years of age, he was in the school-room all of the time,
\ngraduating at Bowdoin College. In 1851 he came South and commenced teaching at
\nTrenton, Tenn., and continued there until 1859, when he moved to
\nCrawfordville, Miss., and taught one year, and then taught at Carrollton,
\nAla., until the war, when he enlisted in the Confederate service, in what was
\nknown as Picken’s Grays, but in a short time was transferred to Gen.
\nTilghman’s staff as an aide-de-camp, staying with him until his death, when he
\nwas transferred to Gen. Lorring’s staff, where he remained until just before
\nthe surrender, when he was discharged by petition in order to return to his
\nschool, which his wife had attended during his absence. He resumed his duties
\nas teacher there until 1865, when he moved to Gainesville, Ala., and took
\ncharge of the female institute there until 1867, when he moved to Fulton,
\nTenn., and became a member of the firm of A. C. Lea & Co., and is now the
\nsenior partner of the firm. August, 1852, he was married to Mary L. Lea, a
\ndaughter of Dr. W. W. Lea. The have had seven children — five boys and two
\ngirls — Charles E., Mattie L., who died December 24, 1882; William W., Albert
\nL., Joel L., Edward I., and Myra L. Mr. Butler is a Democrat, and is a member
\nof the I. O. O. F. He has been very successful in business and has accumulated
\nhis property by his own efforts. He is a man of fine social standing, is
\nhighly cultured and is scrupulously honest in every transaction.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Edward Butler, merchant and citizen of Fulton, holding an interest in the firm of A. C. Lea & Co., was born in Hallowell, Me., October 16, 1826, and is a son of Elijah and Lou (Kersey) Butler. His father …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-butler"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}