Paine, Robert – Palmer, Anthony
Paine, Robert
bishop, author, was born Nov. 12, 1799, in Parson county, N. C.
He was a prominent methodist bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography. He died Oct. 20, 1882, in Aberdeen, Miss.
Paine, Robert T
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Paine, Robert Treat
signer of the declaration of independence, was born March 11, 1731, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 he was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature; and was a delegate to the provincial congress from 1774 to 1775.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1778, and a signer of the declaration of independence. In 1776 he was one of the deputies sent by congress to visit the army of Schuyler in the north. He was speaker of the house of representatives of the state in 1777. He was attorney-general of Massachusetts, and a member of the executive council.
He was judge of the supreme court of the state from 1790 to 1804; and was founder of the American academy of Massachusetts in 1780. He died May 11, 1814, in Boston, Mass.
Paine, Robert Treat
author, poet, was born Dec. 9, 1773, in Taunton, Mass.
He was once a noted poet of Boston whose spiritea song, Adams and Liberty, has preserved his memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary pursuits, and received large sums for his poems, among which are, The Invention of Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted and conventional, with the exception of the song named above. His collected Verse and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. He died Nov. 13, 1811., in Boston, Mass.
Paine, Thomas
author, was born Jan. 29, 1737, in England. He was a celebrated political and deistical writer of English birth who came to America in 1774, and in 1776 issued his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which was of great service to the American cause. In the American Crisis, published in numbers, 1776-83, he continued his defense of America. His other works include, The Rights of Man, a reply to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution; and The Age of Reason. He died June 8, 1809, in New York.
Paine, Timothy Otis
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 13, 1824, in Winslow, Maine. He was a Swedenborgian clergyman of Elmwood, Mass.; and the author of Solomon's Temple and Capitol and Idolatrous High Places. He died in 1895.
Paine, William
physician, journalist, educator, author, was born in 1821, in Chesterfield, Mass. He became professor of the principles and practice of medicine and pathology in the Eclectic Medical college of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; and became editor of the Eclectic Medical Journal in that city, and of the University Journal of Medicine and Surgery. He is the author of Epitome of the American Eclectic Practice of Medicine; American Eclectic Practice of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Diseases of Women and Children; and The Domestic Practice of Medicine.
Paine, William Henry
lawyer, was born Feb. 23, 1863, in Milan, N. H.
He received a liberal education, and graduated from the Harvard Law school. He has served as justice of the peace; has been solicitor for Rockingham county, N.
H.; and for six years was a member of the school board of Newmarket, N. H. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Berlin, N. H.
Painter, Gamaliel
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 22, 1743, in New Haven, Conn. In 1773 he erected the first house in Middlebury, Vt. He was a delegate to the convention that declared the independence of Vermont in 1777. He was a state representative; judge of the county court, and councilor in 1813 and 1814; and a member of the first constitutional convention of Vermont in 1793. He was principal founder of Middlebury college, to which, at his death, he left a bequest of about ten thousand dollars. He died May 22, 1819, in Middlebury, Vt.
Palen, Joseph G
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He was appointed chief justice of the supreme court for the territory of New Mexico. He died Dec. 21, 1875, in Santa Fe, N. M. was
Palen, Rufus
congressman, born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841.
Palenske, Louis
merchant, banker, state legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1858, in Kansas. He is a successful merchant of Alma, Kan.; and president of the Alma National bank. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature, and has always taken great interest in educational legislation.
Palfrey, Francis Winthrop
soldier, author, was born April 11, 1831, in Boston. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy in Boston. He was the author of Antietam and Fredericksburg; and Memoir of William Francis Bartlett. He died Dec. 5, 1889, in France.
Palfrey, John Carver
soldier, banker, educator, author, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. He was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general, United States army, in 1865. He became overseer of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in Dartmouth in 1868, and is a vice-president of the Webster bank in Boston.
Palfrey, John Gorham
educator, journalist, clergyman, congressman, lecturer, author, was born May 2, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was ordained a unitarian preacher in 1818; was subsequently, for a number of years, editor of the North American Review; was professor of sacred literature in Harvard college from 1830 to 1838. During the years 1842 and 1847 he was a member of the general court; and was elected secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was a member of congress from 1847 to 1849.
In 1861 he was appointed postmaster of Boston. His literary reputation rests upon his History of New England, a painstaking work. Other works by him are, Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures; and The Relation between Judaism and Christianity. He died April 26, 1881, in Cambridge, Mass.
Palfrey, Sarah Hammond
author, poet, was born Dec. 11, 1823, in Boston, Mass. She is a novelist and poet of Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises Prémices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; and Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she has published Katharine Morne; and Herman, or Young Knighthood.
Palfrey, Warwick
journalist, state legislator, author, was born in 1787, in Salem, Mass. He began his appren-- ticeship in the Essex Register office in 1801, and was its editor from 1805 till his. death. He was a member of the city council of Salem, and of both branches of the Massachusetts legislature for several years. He was the author of Evangelical Psalms. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Salem, Mass.
Pallen, Montrose Anderson
educator, inventor, author, was born Jan. 2, 1836, in Vicksburg, Mass. In 1883 he assisted in forming the Post-Graduate Medical college in New York city. He has written much for medical periodicals, and published Abnormalities of Vision and Ophthalmoscope; Uterine Abnormali-- ties; Prophylaxis of Pregnancy; and Dysmenorrhœa.
Palmer, Aaron
educator, writer,. was born Dec. 26, 1860, in Mount Carroll, Ill. He has attained success in educational work; in 1888-89 was superintendent of schools at Savanna, and has since been superintendent of schools in Oxford Junction and Anamosa, Iowa. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press on educational and other topics.
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Palmer, Albert Gallatin
cler-- gyman, author, poet, was born May 11, 1813, in North Stonington, Conn. has spent his ministerial life in preaching to the baptist church in Stonington borough, Conn. Besides a large number of published sermons, he is the author of an Historical Discourse; and many poems, among them a translation of the Dies. Iræ. He has issued a collection of these, with the title Psalms of Faith and Songs of Life.
Palmer, Albert Marshman
theater-manager, was born July 27, 1838, in North Stonington, Conn. He served as librarian of the Mercantile library in New York city. In June, 1872, he assumed the management of the Union Square theater in New York, and continued there until 1882; and in 1884 assumed control of the Madison Square theater in New York. He is one of the founders of the Actors' fund of America, and is now its president.
Palmer, Alice Elvira
educator, college president, was born Feb. 21, 1855, in Colesville, N. Y. In 1879 she was appointed professor in history in the Wellesley college; and in 1882 she became president of that college.
Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin
educator, physician, author, was born Oct. 6, 1815, in Richfield, N. Y. He was a physician who was medical professor in the university of Michigan in 1852; and the author of Homœopathy, What Is It?; The Treatment of the Science and Practice of Medicine; Epidemic Cholera; Temperance Teachings of Science; and Diarrhea and Dysentery. He died Dec. 23, 1887, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
PALMER, MRS. ANNA [CAMPBELL], author, poet, was born Feb. 3, 1854, in Elmira, N. Y. She is a writer of Elmira,.
N. Y.; and the author of The Summerville Prize; Little Brown Seed; Lally Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; and Verses from a Mother's Corner.
Palmer, Anthony
governor, was born in England. He was a justice of the peace and of the county courts of Philadelphia county from 1718 until 1732, and for several years one of the judges of the court of common pleas. He was colonial governor for many years. He died in May, 1749, in Philadelphia, Pa.