Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013,
                           All Rights Reserved
                          U.S. Data Repository

    Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot
=========================================================================
U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization.
Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain
the consent of the transcriber prior to use.
Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so.
=========================================================================
Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
==========================================================================

   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

        M. M. BUTLER, M. D., was born in this county in 1838, the son of
    WILLIAM F. and ELIZABETH (GAINES) BUTLER. The former was born in North
    Carolina in 1800, the son of ZACHARIA T., a Scotchman, who came to
    North Carolina, and then to Tennessee, about 1820, and settled in this
    county. The father was a farmer, and also ran a tannery, and operated
    a merchant and custom mill. He died in 1873. The mother, born in this
    county in 1798, was the daughter of AMBROSE GAINES, a native of North
    Carolina, and a pioneer of this county. The mother died in 1876. Both
    parents were Methodists. The father first married JANE, a daughter of
    Col. ANDERSON, by whom he had two children: RACHEL and MARGARET. By
    his second marriage he had two children: WILLIAM GAINES and MATHEW M.
    Our subject, the younger, was reared on the farm, and educated at Emory
    and Henry College.  He began the study of medicine in 1858.  His pre-
    ceptor was Dr. F. H. GAINES, then of Bristol, now of Kentucky. He took
    his first course in 1858--59 at Nashville University, and graduated in
    1860 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He began practice in
    Bristol in 1860. In 1861 he espoused the Confederate cause and was
    assigned to hospital duty, as surgeon-in-charge at Monterey, Va. After
    the evacuation of that part of northern Virginia, he was assigned to
    duty with the Thirty-seventh Virginia Regiment, with which he remained
    the balance of the war. Shortly after the war he removed to Boone
    County, Ky., where he remained and practiced his profession for a
    period of eight years. At the death of his father he returned to his
    native State and county, and after spending a year upon his farm, be-
    gan his present career at Bristol. He is a fellow of several medical
    societies, was president of the Medical Academy of Bristol, and is a
    member of the city council. In 1869 he married MARY T. DULANEY, who.
    was born in this county in 1842, the daughter of Dr. WILLIAM DULANEY,
    of Blountville, Tenn. Their children are LORENA E., JAMES B., CARRIE
    E., CHARLES ST. JOHN and JOSEPH OWEN. The latter died in 1879.

===========================================================================