Biographical Sketch of P. N. Butler, M.D., Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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P. N. Butler, M. D., the oldest practicing physician of Franklin 
County, was born in Beaufort, S. C., May 15, 1825.  His father, Edward
Butler, and his mother, Eliza (Cuddy) Butler, were born, reared and 
married in Dublin, Ireland.  Soon after marriage they moved to South
Carolina, and lived on a plantation, where the mother died in 1853. 
The following year the father came to Franklin County, and here died
in 1853.  The following year the father came to Franklin County, and
here died in 1862.  Both were Episcopalians, and of their family of
nine children four are now living.  The oldest child now living, our
subject, had good advantages for an education.  After a thorough pre-
paratory training, and after graduating from Columbia College, South
Carolina, in 1844, two years later he graduated from the medical de-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and afterward came to St.
Louis to practice his profession.  He remained here but a very short
time, and then, finding the city well supplied with men of his pro-
fession, moved to Franklin County and located where he is now living,
the same year, and where he has ever since enjoyed a lucrative prac-
tice.  In 1859 he married Aurelia Picot, a native of St. Louis, born
in 1839, and the daughter of Louis G. Picot, a lawyer of that city.
By this union Dr. Butler became the father of seven living children,
five sons and two daughters.  The second son, Louis P., is preparing
for the practice of medicine.  The Doctor is a stanch Democrat in 
politics, and in connection with his profession is largely interested
in farming.  For over forty-one years he has practiced his profession
in this county, and upon his first advent here his practice was very
much scatered, he at one time being obliged to ride a distance of
eighty six miles in making the round trip.  He now owns considerable
property, the greater part of which he has made by the practice of his
profession.

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