Pelton, John Cotter – Pendleton, Samuel Evans
Pelton, John Cotter
educator, poet. He is known as the father of the San Francisco schools. Since 1849 he has been engaged as an educator in California, and was San Francisco's first superintendent of schools. He is the author of a volume of poems; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature. His poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and several other standard collections.
PEMBERTON,
Pemberton, Ebenezer
clergyman, author, was born in 1704, in Boston, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the opening of the revolution. He was the author of Sermons on Several Subjects; Practical Discourses; Salvation by Grace; and Occasional Sermons. He died Sept. 9, 1779, in Boston, Mass.
Pemberton, James Lee
politician, was born July 22, 1866, in Turley's Mills, Tenn. He received the rudiments of his education at the common schools, and at the department of law of the Georgetown university of Washington, D. C. He was president of the Central McKinley and Hobart club of Rutledge, Tenn.; has been justice of the peace for Grainger county; and clerk of the circuit court. He has twice declined nominations to the lower house of the general assembly.
Pemberton, Thomas
merchant, author, was born in 1728, in Boston, Mass. He wrote a journal of the revolutionary war; and his Chronology of Massachusetts, in five manuscript volumes, was made use of by Dr. Holmes. He died July 5, 1807, in Boston, Mass.
Pence, Lafe
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1857, in Columbus, Ind. He was elected to the Colorado state legislature, and after the session in 1885 located in Denver. In 1887 he was appointed county attorney for Arapahoe county; and reappointed county attorney in 1888. In 1892 he was nominated by the populists and silver democrats as candidate for congress from the first district, and was elected in November.
Pence, Wallace M
lawyer, was born March 27, 1860, in Henderson county, Ill. He received his education at the Western Normal college of Shenandoah, Iowa, graduating with the degree of B.
S.; and attended the law department of the Kansas State university of Lawrence.
He is now a prominent lawyer of Salinas City, Cal.; and contributes extensively to law literature.
Pendergast, William Wirt
educator, jurist, was born Jan. 31, 1833, in Durham, N. H. He received his education at the Durham academy, at Phillips academy, and in 1854 graduated from Bowdoin college. He has been judge of probate of McLeod county, Minn.; was superintendent of schools of that county for eight years; for twenty years was superintendent and principal of the Hutchinson High school; and for six years was assistant state superintendent of public instruction. He has been principal of the School of Agriculture, and university of Minnesota, for five years; and for, five years has been superintendent of public instruction for the state of Minnesota, his last term expiring in 1898.
Pendergrast, Garrett Jesse
naval officer, was born Dec. 5, 1802, in Kentucky. He was appointed commandant of the Philadelphia navy-yard, which post he filled until two days before his death. Under the reorganization of the navy he was twelfth commodore on the retired list, which rank he attained in 1862. He died Nov. 7, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Pendleton, Edmund
lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Sept. 9, 1721, in Carolina county, Va. He was a member of the house of burgesses in 1752, and was subsequently speaker of that body. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775; president of the Virginia conventions of 1775 and 1776; and drew up the resolutions for the declaration of independence. He was speaker and president of the chancery court; and in 1779 president of the court of appeals. In 1788 he presided over the convention which adopted the federal constitution. He died Oct. 23, 1803, in Richmond, Va.
Pendleton, Edmund H
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833.
Pendleton, Edmund Monroe
physician, author, was born March 19, 1815, in Eatonton, Ga. He was a physician who published Scientific Agriculture. He died Jan. 26, 1884, in Atlanta, Ga.
Pendleton, George C
farmer, soldier, financier, state legislator, congressman, was born April 23, 1845, in Coffee county, Tenn.
He was a merchant; then a farmer and dealer in real estate.
He was in the confederate service as private in Fount's company, Burford's regiment, Parson's brigade, Texas cavalry. He was member of the eighteenth, ninea teenth, and twentieth Texas legislatures, and speaker of the twentieth, He was elected lieutenantgovernor in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. While in congress he served on several important committees.
Pendleton, George Hunt
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born July 25, 1825, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of the state senate of Ohio in 1854 and 1855; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, and thirty-eighth congresses. In 1864 he was nominated for the office of vice-president of the United States. In 1869 he was appointed president of the Kentucky Central Railroad company. He was elected a United States senator from Ohio for the term of six years from March 4, 1879. He died Nov. 24, 1889, in Belgium.
Pendleton, Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born about 1750, in Culpeper county, Va. He was appointed judge in 1776; and when the British overran the state he joined the patriot forces and fought at Eutaw. He resumed his judgeship in 1782; originated the county court act of South Carolina, and was one of three judges appointed to revise the laws of the state in 1785. He died Jan. 10, 1789, in Greenville, S. C.
Pendleton, Isaac
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 3, 1832, in Norwich, N. Y. In 1862 he was a representative of his district in the Iowa legislature; and for four years was district judge. He died July 17, 1896, in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Pendleton, James M
merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1822, in Pendleton Hill, He received thorough education; and became engaged in mercantile business and banking in Rhode Island. He was a member of the Rhode Island state senate in 1862-65; a delegate to the national republican convention of Chicago in 1868; and a presidential elector. He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses, serving on the committee on revision of laws; and various other committees.
Pendleton, James Madison
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1811, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He was a baptist clergyman of Upland, Pa.; and the author of Three Reasons Why I Am a Baptist; Church Manual; Christian Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Principles of Baptists; and Atonement of Christ. He died in 1891.
Pendleton, John O
congressman.
He is a resident of Wheeling, W. Va.; and was elected to the house of representatives of the fifty-first congress in 1888, and was unseated in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Pendleton, John S
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term, ending in 1849. In 1851 he was appointed minister resident to the Argentine confederation. He died Nov. 19, 1868, in Culpeper county, Va. PENDLETON, LOUIS [BEAURE- GARD], author, was born in 1861, in Georgia. He is a novelist of Philadelphia; and the author of Bewitched, and Other Stories; In the Wire Grass, a novel of Southern Georgia; King Tom and the Runaways, a juvenile tale; The Wedding Garment, a Tale of the Life to Come; The Sons of Ham; Corona of the Nantahalas; and In the Okefenokee, a juvenile tale.
Pendleton, Nathaniel
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1756, in Culpeper county, Va. He entered the revolutionary army at nineteen years of age, served with the rank of major on the staff of General Nathaniel Greene, and received the thanks of congress for his gallantry at Eutaw. He afterward settled in Georgia, and became United States district judge. He died Oct. 20, 1821, in New York city.
Pendleton, Nathaniel Greene
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in August, 1793, in Savannah, Ga.
In 1825 he was elected to the senate of Ohio, and was re-elected. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.
Pendleton, Samuel Evans
clergyman, was born in 1840, in Logan county, Ill. He received his education at the Chaddock college of Illinois, and has attained prominence as one of the foremost clergymen in the United States. He has preached in all the principal cities of the union; for fifteen years has been presiding elder in the Kansas conference; and has been a delegate to the general conference four times.