Paynter, Lemuel – Peacock, Thomas Brower
Paynter, Lemuel
congressman, was born in Delaware. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1841.
Paynter, Samuel
governor. He was elected governor of Delaware in 1824, and remained in office three years.
Paynter, Thomas H
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1851, in Lewis county, Ky. He was appointed attorney for Greenup county, Ky., in 1876, ánd held that office, under appointment, until 1878, at which time he was elected to the same office, which he held until 1882.
He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Payson, Edward
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1783, in Rindge, N. H.
He was a congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of Sermons were for a long time widely popular in the religious world. He died Oct. 22, 1827, in Portland, Maine.
Payson, Edward
author, was born in 1814. He was a writer of Deering, Maine, and the author of The Law of Equivalents in Its Relations to Political and Social Ethics; Doctor Tom; and The Maine Law in the Balance. He died in 1890.
Payson, Lewis E
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1840, in Providence, R. I. He moved to Pontiac, Ill., in 1865, and was judge of the county court from 1869 to 1873. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyseventh congress, and re-elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Payson, Phillips
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1736, in Walpole, Mass. From 1757 until his death he was pastor of the congregational church in Chelsea, Mass. He published tracts on astronomy and natural philosophy in the Transactions of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and several sermons, the best known of which is that on the Battle of Lexington; and on the Death of Washington. He died Jan. 11, 1801, in Chelsea, Mass.
Payson, Seth
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 29, 1758, in Walpole, Mass.
From 1782 until his death he was pastor of the congregational church in Rindge, N. H. He published numerous sermons, and a work against secret societies, entitled Proofs of the Existence and Dangerous Tendencies of Modern Illuminism. He died Feb. 26, 1820, in Rindge, N. H.
Peabody, Andrew Preston
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 19, 1811, in Beverly, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of eminence, pastor of a church at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1833-60, and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard university in 1860-81. He was the author of Sermons of Consolation; Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Christianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral Philosophy; Faults and Graces of Conversation; Sermons for Children; Christianity and Science; King's Chapel Sermons; Reminiscences of European Travel; Christian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Sermons; Building a Character; Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known; Harvard Reminiscences; and translations of the ethical writings of Cicero and Plutarch's Delay of Divine Justice. He died in 1893.
Peabody, Charles Augustus
lawyer, jurist, was born July 10, 1814, in Sandwich, N. H. He has twice been judge of the supreme court of New York, and also has been judge of the United States provisional court of Louisiana, and chief justice of the supreme court of the state of Louisiana. Nearly the whole of his professional life has been spent in New York city, with the exception of the few years, during the war, when he was presiding over the courts above mentioned in the south.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer
educator, author, was born May 16, 1804, in Billerica, Mass. She was a noted educator of Boston, and very active in awakening American interest in the kindergarten system, and in her early life associated in teaching with A. B. Alcott, as related in her Record of a School. Her other works include: Chronological History of the United States; Kindergarten Guide; Æsthetic Papers; Letters to Kindergarteners; First Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr.
Channing; and Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers. She died Jan. 4, 1894, in Jamaica Plains, Mass.
Peabody, Ephraim
clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1807, in Wilton, N. H. He was pastor of King's chapel of Boston in 1846-56; originator of Boston Provident society; and was the author of sermons and Christian Days and Thoughts. He died Nov. 28, 1856, in Boston, Mass.
Peabody, George
banker, philanthropist, was born Feb. 18, 1795, in Danvers, Mass. He is said to have given more than $2,000,000 to the founding of colleges, schools and scientific institutions, and $300,000 for the benefit of the working classes of London. He established Yale college of New Haven, Conn.; assisted Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Peabody museum and professorship of American archæology and ethnology in connection with the Harvard university, by a donation of $150,000 for each. He died Nov. 4, 1869, in London, England.
Peabody, James H
merchant, banker, was born Aug. 21, 1852, in Orange county, Vt. In 1871 he moved to Pueblo, Colo., where he was employed in a drygoods store; and afterward moved to Denver, thence to Canon City, where in 1875 he took charge of the management of the store of James Clelland, the leading merchant of that city. He subsequently became a partner, and in 1881 purchased the entire business. In 1885 he was elected county clerk; is prominent in municipal affairs, and president of the First National bank, of which he was one of the organizers.
Peabody, Oliver William Bourne
clergyman, lawyer, author, was born July 9, 1799, in Exeter, N. H. He was a lawyer and journalist of Boston, subsequently a unitarian clergyman and pastor of a church in Burlington, Vt., in 1845-48. He published Lives of Generals Sullivan and Putnam, in Sparks's American Biography; and an edition of Shakespeare with Life and Notes. He died July 5, 1848, in Burlington, Vt.
PEABODY, PHILIP GLENDO vv ER, lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1857, in New York city, and is a son of Charles A. Peabody, an eminent jurist. He graduated from Columbia college in 1877; in 1880 from the Columbia Law school, and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1885he moved to Boston, where he has been president of the New England Anti-Vivisection society for many years. He is also president of the National Constitutional Liberty league; president of the National Scientific Family Culture institute; vice-president of the Massachusetts society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and vice-president of the Illinois Anti-Vivisection society. He has received the degrees of A. B., A. M., LL. B. and M. D. He is an extensive traveler and has visited nearly all the countries of Europe. He has one of the largest private libraries in Boston, numbering about ten thousand volumes, for which he has erected a suitable library building.
Peabody, Selim Hobart
educator, scientist, author, was born Aug. 20, 1829, in Rockingham, Vt. He has been president of the university of Illinois; president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences; president of State Teachers' associations of Wisconsin and Illinois; president of the National Council of Education; and in 1893 he was chief of the department of liberal arts, World's Columbian exposition. He is the author of works on natural history, arithmetic, astronomy; compiler of American Patriotism, and first editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia.
Peabody, Thomas Hazard
lawyer, journalist, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in North Stonington, Conn. In 1888 he began the publication of the Westerly Daily Tribune, R. I., the first prohibition daily newspaper in the world, and he still remains the editor and owner. He has been a member of the general assembly of Rhode Island, and has been the prohibition candidate for governor and for congressman several times.
Peabody, William Bourne Oli- Ver
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1799 in New Hampshire. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor of a church in Springfield, Mass., in 1820-47. He was. the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton Mather, Brainerd, and Oglethorpe, in Sparke's American Biography; and Report on Birds of the Commonwealth. As a poet he is best represented by such poems as Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; and Winter Night. He died May 28, 1847, in Springfield, Mass.
Peacock, Dred
educator, college president, was born April 12, 1864, in Stantonsburg, N. C. In 1887 he graduated as valedictorian from Trinity college, North Carolina, receiving the degrees of A.
B. and A. M. In 1887-88 he was principal of the Lexington Female seminary; was. professor of Latin and science in the Greensboro Female college in 1888-94, and since 1894 has been president of that institution.
Peacock, Thomas Brower
poet, was born April 16, 1852, in Cambridge, Ohio. For ten years he was associate editor of the Kansas Democrat of Topeka. He is the author of The Vendetta and Other Poems; The Rhyme of the Border War; Poems of the Plains and Songs of the Solitudes, and other works. During the World's Columbian exposition he read his famous Columbian Ode before the public press congress, which was highly praised. As a lecturer he has attained phenomenal success.