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Pierce Butler

1807–67

American plantation owner. Of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Inherited a large plantation in Georgia. His marriage, 1834, to Fanny Kemble ended in divorce in 1849.

Source

ODNB s.v. Kemble, Fanny

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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