Pettigrew, Charles – Phelan, John Dennis
Pettigrew, Charles
clergyman, was born in 1748 in Pennsylvania. In 1790 he took some steps toward organizing the episcopal church in North Carolina. In 1794 a convention was held in Tarboro, a constitution was framed and adopted, and Mr. Pettigrew was elected bishop. He died April 7, 1807, in Tyrrel county, N. C.
Pettigrew, Ebenezer
congressman, was born March 10, 1783, near Edenton, N. C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1835 to 1837. He died July 8, 1848, in Magnolia, N. C.
Pettigrew, Richard Franklin
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born in July, 1848, in Ludlow, Vt. He went to Dakota in 1869 in the employ of a United States deputy surveyor; located in Sioux Falls, where he engaged in the surveying and real estate business. He opened a law office in 1872, and has been in the practice of his profession since. He was elected to the Dakota legislature as a member of the council in 1877 and re-elected in 1879. He was elected to the forty-seventh congress as delegate from Dakota territory; and was elected to the territorial council of 1884-85. He was elected United States senator in 1889, and took his seat Dec. 2; was re-elected in 1895.
Pettingill, Amos
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 9, 1780, in Salem, N. H. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of Connecticut; and the author of View of the Heavens; and The Spirit of Methodism. He died Aug. 17, 1830, in Salem Bridge, Conn.
Pettingill, John Hancock
clergyman, author, was born May 11, 1815, in Manchester, Vt. He was a congregational clergyman in Ohio, widely known as an earnest believer in conditional immortality. He was the author of The Theological Trilemma; Platonism versus Christianity; Bible Terminology; Life Everlasting; The Unspeakable Gift; and Views and Reviews in Eschatology. He died Feb. 27, 1887, in New Haven, Conn.
Pettis, S. Newton
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1828 in Ashtabula county, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed a justice of the United States court for Colorado; before the close of that year he resigned, and came to Pennsylvania. He was subsequently elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy; and in 1878 he was appointed minister resident to Bolivia, remaining there until 1880.
Pettis, Spencer
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1802 in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, serving from 1829 to 1831.
He died Aug. 26, 1831, in St. Louis.
Pettit, Charles
soldier, lawyer, merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1736 near Amwell, N. J. He was in the continental congress from 1785 to 1787; and an advocate for the adoption of the federal constitution in the general convention at Harrisburg. He died Sept. 4, 1806, in Philadelphia.
Pettit, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born June 24, 1807, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.
He was a member of the Indiana state legislature; and United States district attorney. He served in the house of representatives in congress from 1843 to 1847; and in the United States senate from 1853 to 1855. He was a presidential elector in 1852; and in 1859 was appointed chief justice of the federal courts of Kansas. He died Jan. 17, 1877, in Lafayette.
Pettit, John U
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. He was appointed judge of the Upper Wabash circuit court of Indiana. He was elected to congress as a representative from that state in 1854; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
PETTIT, THOMAS McKEAN
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 26, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was city solicitor of Philadelphia in 1820, and shortly afterward was deputy state attorney-general. He was in the legislature in 1830-31; associate judge of the district court in 1832- 35; and its presiding judge for the next ten years, subsequently declining further service. In 1853 he became director of the United States mint, which post he held for a month before his death. He died May 30, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Pettus, Edmund Winston
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born July 6, 1821, in Limestone county, Ala. He was elected judge of the seventh circuit of Alabama in 1855, but resigned that office in 1858, and removed to Dallas county, where he now resides.
In 1861 he went into the confederate army as major of the twentieth Alabama infantry; and in 1863 was made a brigadiergeneral of infantry, and served till the close of the war. He was elected by the legislature of Alabama United States senator for the term commencing March 4, 1897.
Petzel, Ernst August Edward
educator, lecturer, author, was born July 12, 1866, in Koënigsberg, Prussia. At the age of sixteen he entered the university of Watertown, Wis.; and subsequently studied in Berlin. After receiving his degree of Ph.
D., he returned to America, and has since held several honorable professorships in the leading institutions. In 1894 he was called to the chair of philosophy and Teutonic languages in the Augustana college of Canton, S. D. He has devoted much time to literary pursuits-in writing poetry, stories, scientific articles and translating from German into English, and English into German.
He is a great student and a brilliant lecturer.
Peyton, Bailie
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1803, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1833 to 1837. In 1849 he was appointed minister to Chili; and was subsequently elected United States district attorney for Louisiana. In 1861 he was a presidential elector for the state of Tennessee; and subsequently served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion. He died Aug. 19, 1878, in Gallatin, Tenn.
Peyton, Ephraim Geoffrey
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1802, near Elizabethtown, Ky. He settled in Gallatin, Miss.; served one term in the legislature; and was appointed a judge of the state supreme court in 1868; and was chief justice from 1870 till his retirement in 1875. He died Sept. 5, 1876, in Jackson, Miss.
Peyton, John Lewis
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1824, in Staunton, Va. He is a lawyer of Staunton, Va., who served as an officer in the confederate service. He is the author of Adventures of my Grandfather; History of Augusta County, Virginia; The American Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; and Memorials of Nature and Art.
Peyton, John Rowze
soldier, was born Oct. 19, 1754, in Stony Hill, Va. He served through the civil war, winning the sobriquet of Hero Boy of '76. He died in 1798 in Stony Hill, Va.
Peyton, Joseph H
state senator, congressman, was born in 1813 in Sumner county, Tenn. He was frequently elected to the senate of Tennessee; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845. He died Nov. 12, 1845, in Sumner county, Tenn.
Peyton, Robert Ludwell Yates
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1825 in Loudoun county, Va. In 1855 he was elected to the Missouri state senate; and in 1861 was a member of the confederate senate.
He died in 1863.
Peyton, Samuel O
physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 in Bullitt county, Ky. In 1835 he was elected to the state legislature; was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1849; and was also elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
He died in January, 1870, in Hartford, Ky. a
Pfeifer, William
farmer, legislator, was born March 29, 1863, in Washington county, Wis. He is successful farmer of Douglas county, S.
D.; was elected justice of the peace in 1894; and in 1896 was elected a representative in the South Dakota state legislature.
Pfeiffer, Carl
architect, was born in 1834 in Germany. He established himself as an architect in New York city in 1864, and became eminent. Among the New York buildings that were designed or erected by him are the Church of the Messiah, the Roosevelt and City hospitals, the Berkshire apartment-house, and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. He died April 27, 1888, in Washington, D. C.
Pfrimmer, Will W
public official, lecturer, poet, was born Jan. 27, 1856, in Metropolis City, Ill. He was elected to the office of superintendent of schools in Metropolis City, Ill. He is a popular lecturer before teachers' institutes. He has published one volume of poems, Driftwood, which found favorable reception. It is now in its second edition.
Phalen, Frank Lowe
clergyman, lecturer, was born May 9, 1859, in Williamstown, N. Y. During 1896-98 he was chaplain of the New Hampshire legislature; and has been secretary of the New Hampshire Unitarian association.
Phelan, James
lawyer, journalist, congressman, author, was born Dec. 7, 1856, in Aberdeen, Miss. He was a Memphis lawyer and journalist; and served as a representative in the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a democrat. He was the author of Philip Massinger and his Plays; and History of Tennessee. He died Jan. 30, 1891, in Bahama Islands.
Phelan, John Dennis
journalist, lawyer, jurist, educator, state legislator, was born March 23, 1809, in New Brunswick, N. J. He became editor of the Huntsville Democrat; was in the Alabama legislature in 1833-35 attorney general of the state in 1836; speaker of the house in 1839; and a judge of the circuit court in 1841-51.
He was then elevated to the supreme bench, held office for two years, and again in 1863-65. He became professor of law in the university of the South in 1869, holding the chair till his death. He died Sept. 9, 1879, in Birmingham, Ala.