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He was the son of Otelia (née Butler) Mahone and Confederate General and United States Senator William Mahone.
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William Mahone, Junior.
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The eldest of only 3 surviving children (of 13 born), he was born in Norfolk, Virginia while his father was constructing the Norfolk and St. Petersburg Railroad, and attended school at Hanover Academy. William Mahone Junior. was engaged in the tobacco trade for a time and later served as collector of customs at St. Petersburg, Virginia. They had 6 children, of whom 4 (3 boys and a girl) survived infancy.
They were William Mahone III, born in 1882, Gilbert Leigh Mahone, born July 28, 1887, who died November 20, 1900, Marion Mahone, born in 1889, and Marie East. Mahone, born in 1892.
