Peters, John Thompson – Pettibone, Augustus H
Peters, John Thompson
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 11, 1765, in Hebron, Conn. In 1813 he was appointed collector of revenue, and in 1818 was made judge of the state supreme court, which office he held for many years. He died Aug. 28, 1834, in Hartford, Conn.
Peters, Madison C
clergyman, orator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1859, in Lehigh county, Pa. At the age of twenty-three he filled the pastorate of one of the oldest presbyterian churches in Philadelphia; and five years later was called to the Bloomingdale Reformed church of New York city, and his congregation is composed of twelve different denominations. This popular preacher and brilliant orator is the author of Sanctified Spice; Empty Pews; The Path of Glory; Popular Sins; Wrongs to be Righted: and several other works.
Peters, Mason Summers
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1844, in Clay county, Mo. He moved in 1886 to Wyandotte county, Kas., where he now resides; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat-populist.
Peters, Matthew H
soldier, journalist, poet, legislator, was born June 6. 1843, in Rhenish, Bavaria. He was brought to this country when an infant, and has grown up thoroughly imbued with the spirit of American institutions. He served four years as a union soldier during the civil war; was twice severely wounded; rising from the rank of a private to the rank of major in his regiment-the seventy-fourth Ohio. He has served one term in the Illinois legislature, and was mayor of Watseka for four years. In 1872 he founded the Iroquois County Times of Watseka, Ill.; and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Peters, Moses A
clergyman, educator, was born June 8, 1851, near Slatington, Pa. After receiving a liberal education he taught in the public schools. In 1870 he was graduated from the Classical Preparatory course, Kingston, Pa.; and four years later was graduated from Ursinus college. He then entered the Yale Divinity school, graduating therefrom in 1877. During 1877- 80 he served as pastor of St. John's Reformed church of Hamburg, Pa.; was a delegate to the Robert Raikes' centenary, held in London in 1880; and served as professor of natural science and languages in Galesville university, Wis., during 1881-87. He then studied abroad in Edinburgh and Berlin universities. During 1888-93 he was professor of chemistry and natural history in Ursinus college; and since 1889 has occupied the chair of New Testament literature and exegesis. He has also taught the history of philosophy in the same institution. He has translated into English Rev. Otto Thelemann's Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism.
PETERS, MRS. PHILLIS [WHEAT- LEY], author, poet, was born in 1754 in Senegal. She was a verse writer of African birth brought to Boston in childhood as a slave. Poems on Various Occasions, Religious and Moral, appeared in London in 1772, and won a fleeting popularity there, the author being regarded as a prodigy. She died in 1784.
Peters, Richard
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born June 22, 1744, in Belmont, Pa. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1782 to 1783. He was judge of the district court of Pennsylvania which situation he occupied until his death. He was first president of the company who built the permanent bridge over the Schuylkill at Philadelphia; and in 1797 published his experiments in agriculture and improvements in American husbandry. He died Aug. 22, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Peters, Richard
lawyer, author, was born in August, 1780, in Belmont, Pa.
He succeeded Henry Wheaton as reporter of the United States supreme court. He edited Chitty on Bills of Exchange; and Bushrod Washington's Circuit Court Reports. He died May 2, 1848, in Belmont, Pa.
Peters, Richard
railroad president, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Germantown, Pa. In 1870 he organized and became president of the Atlanta Street railway.
Peters, Samuel Andrew
clergyman, author, was born in 1735 in Connecticut. He was an episcopal clergyman of Hartford who published a famous General History of Connecticut by a Gentleman of that Province, a curious satirical production, to which may be traced the well known fable of the Connecticut Blue Laws. Other works of his include a Life of Rev. Hugh Peters; and History of Hebron, Connecticut. He died in 1826.
Peters, Samuel Ritter
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1842, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He moved to Kansas in 1873, and engaged in the practice of law at Marion Centre. He was elected state senator in 1874; in 1875 was appointed judge of the ninth judicial district; and in the succeeding November was elected to the same position, and was re-elected in 1879.
He moved to Newton in 1876; was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Peters, William Cumming
musician, composer, was born March 10, 1805, in England. He compiled numerous collections of music, including The Catholic Harmonist; and Catholic Harp; and systems of instruction for the voice and different instruments, among them the Eclectic Piano Instructor. He died April 20, 1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Petersen, Erasmus Smith
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 24, 1863, in Norway. He is a successful lawyer of Park River, N. D.; has been county judge; and takes an active part in political affairs.
Petersilea, Carlyle
musician, was born Jan. 14, 1844, in Boston, Mass.
Since 1886 he has taught in the New England Conservatory of Music. He is the author of an original piano system; and has also invented a mute piano for practice.
Peterson, Arthur
naval officer, poet, was born Sept. 20, 1851, in Germantown, Pa. He is a naval officer who has published Songs of New Sweden.
Peterson, Charles Jacobs
publisher, author, was born July 20, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia publisher and novelist, and the founder of Peterson's Magazine. He was the author of Kate Aylesford; Cruising in the Last War; Military Heroes of the United States; Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Saratoga; Mabel, or Darkness and Dawn; and The Old Stone Mansion. He died March 4, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Peterson, Frederick
physician, poet, was born in 1859 in Minnesota. He is a physician and poet; and the author of Poems and Swedish Translations; and In the Shade of Ygdrasil.
Peterson, Henry
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a Philadelphia poet, and editor for many years of The Saturday Evening Post. He was the author of The Modern Job, and Other Poems; Faire-Mount; Bessie's Lovers; and Cæsar, a Dramatic Study. He died in 1891.
Peterson, Robert Evans
author, was born Nov. 12, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia writer whose principal work is The Roman Catholic not the Only True Religion. He died in 1894.
Peterson, Sarah Webb
journalist, poet, was born Nov. 9, 1829, in Wilmington, Del. She edited The Lady's Friend for ten years; and has written several poems.
Peterson, Theodore
clergyman, was born July 4, 1873, in Sweden. He graduated from the Theological seminary and the Northwestern university of Evanston, Ill., and is now a successful clergyman of Braddock, Pa.
Peterson, Theophilus Beasley
publisher, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in Philadelphia, Pa. His first publication was issued in 1846, being a reprint of Lady Charlotte Bury's novel The Divorced. In 1858 he admitted his brothers, George W. and Thomas, into partnership, under the firm name of T. B. Peterson and Brothers.
His firm has also made a specialty of publishing cook-books.
Petrie, George
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.
Petriken, David
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died Jan. 3, 1849.
Pettee, Otis
inventor, railroad president, was born March 5, 1795, in Foxborough, Mass. He made several inventions in cotton machinery, notably in roving frames or double speeders, by introducing a geared cone, with gears arranged in a hyperbolic series. In 1848 he became president of the Charles River railroad, which place he filled until his death. He died Feb. 12, 1853, in Newton Upper Falls, Mass.
Pettee, William Henry
mining engineer, educator, was born Jan. 13, 1838, in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. In 1875 he was called to the university of Michigan, where he has since remained, and now fills the chair of mineralogy, economic geology, and mining engineering.
Pettees, John J
soldier, governor.
He was governor of Mississippi from 1860 to 1862; and was a brigadier-general in the confederate service. He was killed July 20, 1864, in the battle of Peach Creek.
Pettibone, Augustus H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1835, in Bedford, Ohio. He commenced the practice of law in La Crosse, Wis.; served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of major. He settled in Tennessee; was elected attorneygeneral for the first judicial circuit; and was a presidential elector in 1868 and 1876. He was assistant United States district attorney for several years; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a republican.