Perry, Mary Alice – Peters, John S
Perry, Mary Alice
author, was born in 1854 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of fiction; and the author of Esther Pennefather; and More Ways Than One. She died in 1883.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith
naval officer, was born about 1821. He was made a lieutenant in 1848, and served for several years on the coast survey. After various services he was placed on the retired list, receiving his commission as captain in 1867. He died Nov. 16, 1873, in New York city.
Perry, Nehemiah
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 30, 1816, in Ridgefield, Conn. He was for many years the presiding member of the common council of Newark, N. J.; and served a number of years in the legislature of that state. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-seventh congress; and was elected to the thirty-eighth congress. re-
Perry, Nora
author, poet, was born in 1741 in Massachusetts. Her poems include After the Ball, and Other Poems; Her Lover's Friend, and Other Poems; New Songs and Ballads; and Legends and Lyrics. She was the author of The Tragedy of the Unexpected, and Other Stories; For a Woman, a novel; The Youngest Miss Lorton, and Other Stories; A Book of Love Stories; A Rosebud Garden of Girls; A Flock of Girls and Their Friends; A Flock of Girls and Boys; Another Flock of Girls; Three Little Daughters of the Revolution; and Hope Benham. She died in 1896.
Perry, Oliver Hazard
naval officer, was born Aug. 23, 1785, in South Kingston, R. I. Perry's victory in the battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, with his laconic dispatch to Gen. Harrison, We have met the enemy and they are ours, makes his name one to glitter on the page of American history.
He was greatly honored for what he accomplished, the United States congress voting him thanks, a medal and the rank of captain.
He died Aug. 23, 1819, on the Island of Trinidad. A granite obelisk was erected to his memory by the state of Rhode Island.
Perry, Rufus Lewis
clergyman, linguist, author, was born in 1833, in Tennessee. He was a baptist clergyman of African descent, widely known as a linguist. Among his various writings is The Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen by Ancient Historians and Poets. He died in 1895.
Perry, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847; and was a circuit judge from 1851 to 1861, and from 1864 to 1871. He died June 27, 1871, in Cumberland, Md.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant
educator, author, was born Jan. 23, 1845, in Newport, R. I. He is an educator of Bostcn; and the author of English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lieber; From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The Evolution of the Snob; and History of Greek Literature.
Perry, William
lawyer, jurist. In 1790 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory lying south of the Ohio river.
Perry, William
manufacturer, surgeon, physician, was born Dec. 20, 1788, in Norton, Mass. He discovered the true character of British gum, or charred potato starch, which was formerly used largely as sizing in cotton mills, and liable to heavy duty. He engaged in its manufacture at Exeter from 1828 till 1835. He died Jan. 11, 1887, in Exeter, N. H.
Perry, William F
railroad president, was born Feb. 1, 1826, in Bridgton, Maine. Since 1882 he has been president of the Bridgton and Saco River railroad.
Perry, William Hayne
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 9, 1837, in Greenville, S. C. He entered the confederate army in 1861 and served throughout the war, being promoted to first lieutenant and adjutant. He was a representative in the South Carolina state legislature; and in 1868 was elected solicitor of the western circuit and served four years. In 1880 he was elected state senator and served four years. In 1884 he was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a democrat.
Perry, William Stevens
bishop, author, was born Jan. 22, 1832, in Rhode Island. He is the second protestant episcopal bishop of Iowa; and prominent among high churchmen. He is the author of The Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church; The History of the American Episcopal Church; Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs; Some Summer Days Abroad; The General Ecclesiastical Constitution of the American Church; and The American Episcopate.
Pershing, Daniel H
railroad president, was born May 25, 1831, in Fayette county, Pa. Since 1881 he has been president of the Greenlick railway at Stauffer, Pa.
Persons, Henry
soldier, agriculturist, congressman, was born in 1834 in Monroe county, Ga. He devoted his attention to agriculture; served in the confederate army as captain; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Peter, George
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1779, in Georgetown, Md. He entered the United States army in 1799, and resigned in 1809; and served as major of volunteers during the war of 1812. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1816 to 1819, and again from 1825 to 1827. He was twice elected to the state legislature, and also served the public as commissioner of public works for the state of Maryland. He died June 22, 1861, in Montgomery county, Md.
Peter, Robert
chemist, author, was born Jan. 21, 1805, in England. In 1832 he delivered a course of chemical lectures at the Eclectic institute of Lexington, Conn., where he filled the chair of chemistry. During the civil war he was a surgeon in charge of the United States general hospitals in Lexington. He is the author of A Digest of the Report of the Geological Surveys of Arkansas; and other geological works.
Peter, Sarah
philanthropist, was born May 16, 1800, in Valley Mills, Ohio.
She founded the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia, which was opened in 1850, and bestowed her wealth on many charitable institutions. She established several sisterhoods in Cincinnati, and founded convents in Philadelphia. She died Feb. 6, 1877, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Peterkin, George William
bishop of West Virginia, was born March 21, 1841, in Washington county, Md. He was elected first bishop of West Virginia, and was consecrated in St. Matthew's church, Wheeling, Va., on May 30, 1878. The bishop has published several occasional sermons and addresses.
Peters, Alice E. Heckler
educator, poet, was born March 30, 1845, in Dayton, Ohio. For many years she taught private classes; has been a regular newspaper contributor; and a poet of rare genius. She has been the secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society; treasurer of the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference Home Missionary society; secretary of the Woman's Relief corps; and an indefatigable worker in religious, reform and social work.
Peters, Bernard
journalist, was born in October, 1827, in Germany. In 1868 he bought a half interest in the Brooklyn Times; six years later came in control of the paper.
Peters, Christian Henry Fred- Erick
astronomer, author, was born Sept. 19, 1813. He was a German astronomer, director of the observatory at Hamilton college in 1858-90, and discovered over forty asteroids. He was the author of Celestial Charts. He died in 1890.
Peters, Edward Dyer
metallurgist, author, was born June 1, 1849, in Dorchester, Mass. He is a metallurgist who has published Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting.
Peters, George Nathaniel Hen- Ry
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 1825, in New Berlin, Pa. He is a lutheran minister of Ohio; and the author of The Theocratic Kingdom of Christ.
Peters, Hugh
poet, was born Jan. 30, 1807, in Hebron, Conn. He wrote a series of humorous Yankee lyrics, which were printed in the New England Weekly Review. His farewell to Connecticut, written on Long Island sound, and entitled My Native Land, is considered his best poem. He died June 9, 1831, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Peters, John A
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1822, in Ellsworth, Maine. In 1862 and 1863 he was elected to the senate of Maine; in 1864 was elected to the house of representatives; and at the close of 1864 and also in 1865 and 1866 was elected by the legislature attorney-general of the state. He was elected a representative from Maine to the fortieth congress; was re-elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a republican.
Peters, John Charles
physician, author, was born July 6, 1819, in New York city. He was a physician of New York city of note as a bacteriologist; and the author of Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System; Diseases of Women; Diseases of the Eye; Notes on Asiatic Cholera; and A New Materia Medica. He died in 1893.
Peters, John S
state legislator, governor, was born in 1778 in Connecticut. He was several years in the state legislature; was lieutenant-governor from 1827 to 1831; and was governor of Connecticut from 1831 to 1833. He died April 1, 1858, in Hebron, Conn.