Peet, Harvey Prindle – Pelton, Guy R
Peet, Harvey Prindle
educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1794, in Bethlehem, Conn. He was a noted educator of deaf-mutes in New York city; and the author of Course of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb; Legal Rights of the Deaf and Dumb; and History of the United States. He died Jan. 1, 1873, in New York city.
Peet, Stephen
missionary, author, was born in 1795, in Sandgate, Vt. In 1837 he became minister of Green Bay, Wis., and assisted in founding Beloit college and thirty churches. He then went to Milwaukee, and subsequently took charge of an institute in Batavia, Ill. He was the author of a History of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches and Ministers of Wisconsin. He died March 21, 1855, in Chicago, Ill.
Peet, Stephen Denison
clergyman, anthropologist, author, was born Dec. 2, 1830, in Euclid, Ohio. He is a congregational minister, eminent as an anthropologist; and the author of The Ashtabula Disaster; History of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture in America; History of Early Missions in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primitive Symbolisms; and The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin.
Peffer, William Alfred
lawyer, journalist, United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 1831, in Cumberland county, Pa. He began teaching at the age of fifteen years; taught during winter and farmed in summer; removed to Indiana in 1853, and opened a farm in St. Joseph county. He removed to Missouri in 1859, and purchased farm in Morgan county. Because of a the war he moved to Illinois in 1862, and enlisted as a private in company F, eighty-third Illinois infantry. He was promoted to second lieutenant in March, 1863; and served as regimental quartermaster and adjutant, post adjutant, judge-advocate of a military commission, and depot quartermaster in the engineer department at Nashville. He began the practice of law in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1865; moved to Kansas in 1870; and practiced law there until 1878, in the meantime establishing and conducting two newspapers, the Fredonia Journal and Coffeyville Journal. He was elected to the state senate in 1874; was republican presidential elector in 1880; and became editor of the Kansas Farmer in 1881. He was elected to the United States senate as a member of the people's party; took his seat March 4,1891. His term of service expired March 3, 1897. He is the author of The Tariff Manual; and The Way Out.
Peffley, David Franklin
journalist, poet, was born May 5, 1854, in Bainbridge, Ind. For several years he taught school, then took up newspaper work. In 1880 he moved to Kansas, and has edited and published newspapers in that state, and in New Mexico. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Songs of Sentiment; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Pegram, John
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1818 to 1819 to fill a vacancy.
Pegram, William Johnson
soldier, was born in 1841, in Petersburg, Va.
He served with distinction in the confederate army; attained the rank of brigadier-general, and was killed in battle April 2, 1865, in Petersburg, Va.
Peirce, Benjamin
merchant, author, was born Sept. 30, 1778, in Salem, Mass. He was a merchant of Salem, Mass., subsequently librarian of Harvard university; and published a History of Harvard University from 1636 to the American Revolution. He died July 28, 1831, in Cambridge, Mass.
Peirce, Benjamin
mathematician, educator, author, was born April 4, 1809, in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent mathematician, and professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard university in 1833-67. He was the author of Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise Curves, Functions, and Forces; and Ideality in the Physical Sciences. He died Oct. 6, 1880, in Cambridge, Mass. on Sound;
Peirce, Benjamin Osgood
educator, author, was born Feb. 11, 1854, in Beverly, Mass. He is a professor of physics at Harvard university from 1884; and author of Theory of the Newtonian Potential Functions.
Peirce, Bradford Kinney
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 3, 1819, in Royalton, Vt. He was editor of Zion's Herald in 1872-88. He was the author of Bible Scholar's Manual; The Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The Word of God Opened; A Half Century with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an Inventor; Audubon's Adventures; Stories from Life which the Chaplain Told; The Chaplain with the Children; The Young Shetlander and His Home; and Hymns of the Higher Life. He died in 1889.
Peirce, Charles Henry
physician, author, was born Jan. 28, 1814, in Salem, Mass. In 1850 he received the appointment of examiner of medicines for the port of Boston. He was the translator of Dr. Julius A. Stockhardt's Principles of Chemistry. He also published Examination of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals as to their Purity. He died June 16, 1855, in Cambridge, Mass.
Peirce, Charles Sanders
physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a physician and lecturer on logic; and the author of Studies in Logic.
Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver
soldier, author, was born April 5, 1822, in Freetown, Mass. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of The Peirce Family of the Old Colony; Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy; and Contributions, Biographical.
Peirce, James Mills
educator, author, was born May 1, 1834, in Cambridge, Mass. He is an educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard university from 1867; and the author of Text-Book of Analytical Geometry; and Elements of Logarithms.
Peirce, Joseph Dexter
farmer, legislator, was born Dec. 5, 1857, in Newburgh, N. Y. He is a successful farmer; and has served as a member of the lower house of the North Dakota legislature.
Peirce, Robert B. F
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1843, in Laurel, Ind. He graduated in a classical course from the Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. He served during the war as a lieutenant in the one hundred and thirty-fifth regiment of the Indiana volunteer infantry. He is a noted lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind.; has been state's attorney; and served as a member of the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Peirce, Thomas
poet, was born Aug. 4, 1786, in Chester county, Pa. He wrote numerous prize poems, the chief of which was Muse of Hesperia; and contributed largely to literary journals. His last published poem, Knowledge is Power, appeared in 1827. He died in 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Peirce, William Foster
clergyman, college president, was born Feb. 3, 1868, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was prepared for college at the Springfield High school; graduating in 1888 from Amherst college; then he attended. the Cornell university for one year for the study of philosophy and economics.
He has filled professorships in the Ohio university, university of Colorado, and Kenyon college of Gambier, Ohio, of which latter institution he has been president since 1896.
Peirce, William Shannon
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 3, 1815, in New Castle, Del. In 1866 he became a judge of the court of common pleas in Philadelphia, which office he held by subsequent elections until his death. He died April 4, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Peirson, Mrs. Lydia Jane
[WHEELER], poet, was born in 1802, in Middletown, Conn. She was a poet of Adrian, Mich.; and the author of Forest Leaves, and Other Poems; and The Forest Minstrel. She died in 1862, in Adrian, Mich.
Pelham, Charles
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 12, 1835, in Person county, N. C. He entered the confederate service in 1862; was elected judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1868; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.
Pelham, Peter
artist, was born in England. He was the first engraver and earliest known artist in New England, and came from London to Boston at the close of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. His earliest known work here is a portrait of Cotton Mather, dated 1727. He died in December, 1751, in Boston, Mass.
Pell, Ella Ferris
painter, sculptor, was born Jan. 18, 1846, in St. Louis, Mo. She has given special attention to portraiture and figure composition. Her most important work is The Angel Showing Adam the Consequences of His Sin. She is the president of the Liberal Art league of New York city.
PELLEW, [WILLIAM] GEORGE, author, was born in 1859, in England. He was a writer of New York city; and the author of Jane Austen's Novels, a Dissertation; In Castle and Cabin, or Talks in Ireland; Woman and the Commonwealth; and Life of John Jay. He died in 1893.
Pelton, Guy R
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 3, 1825, in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1851 he opened a law office in New York city; and in 1854 was. elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth congress.