Though they lived in Philadelphia, Butler was the grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune in cotton, tobacco and rice plantations.
Part of that time was spent with the firm owned by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler and future U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell.
Roswell King, Sr. had conflicts with Major Pierce Butler when he managed his island plantations in Georgia, because Butler took a more moderate approach to the treatment of slaves than King did.
It was built as a city house for Thomas Butler, only son of South Carolina U.S. Senator Pierce Butler.
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Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation, wrote one of the only contemporary accounts of the incident which states that as soon as the Igbo landed on St. Simons Island they took to the swamp, committing suicide by walking into Dunbar Creek.
Associate Justice Owen Roberts wrote the decision for the majority, joined by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justices James Clark McReynolds, Pierce Butler, and Harlan F. Stone.