Robert Butler Mahone (18 October 1858A guide to Mahone family papers
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, across the U.S.-Mexico border from

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on January 22, 1898, by U.S. President

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(1843–1901). He was the son of Otelia Butler Mahone and former

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General and

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. As one of the family's three children to survive infancy, he had an older brother, William T. Mahone Jr. (1856–1927) and a younger sister, Otelia (née Mahone) McGill. Butler Mahone's maternal grandfather, Dr. Robert Butler of Smithfield in Isle of Wight County, was the treasurer of the state of

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when he died in 1853. Butler Mahone had been assigned to his father as private secretary for a number of years and afterward was in the government service. He is buried in

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in Petersburg, Virginia.

References

Books

*Blake, Nelson Morehouse, Phd. (1935) ''William Mahone of Virginia; Soldier and Political Insurgent'', Garrett and Massie Publishers; Richmond, VA

Websites

official site, Library of Virginia, William Mahone page
1858 births 1914 deaths People from Virginia American diplomats People from Laredo, Texas American expatriates in Mexico {{US-diplomat-stub