Piatt, John James – Pickman, Benjamin
Piatt, John James
poet, was born March 1, 1835, in James Mills (now Milton), Ind. He is a poet who was consul at Cork in 1882-93. He has been a prolific writer of verse, but The Morning Street, one of his earlier poems, still ranks as his finest effort. He is the author of Landmarks; Western Windows; Poems of House and Home; Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley; Poems in Sunshine and Firelight; The Lost Farm, and Other Poems; At the Holy Well; A Dream of Church Windows (a revised edition of Poems of House and Home); The Lost Hunting Ground; and Little New World Idyls. His prose is included in Penciled Fly-Leaves; and A Return to Paradise.
Piatt, Louise Kirby
author, was born Nov. 25, 1826, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She accompanied her husband to Europe when he was appointed secretary of legation, and contributed letters to the Home Journal, which were afterward published in book-form as Bell Smith Abroad. She died Oct. 2, 1864.
Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan
(BRY- AN), poet, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in Lexington, Ky. She is a noted poet, and is the author of A Woman's Poems; A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and Other Poems; That New World, and Other Poems; Dramatic Persons and Moods; An Irish Garland; In Primrose Time; The Witch in the Glass Complete Poems (1894); An Enchanted Castle; and Child's World Ballads.
Picard, George Henry
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 3, 1850, in Baldwin, Ohio. He is a physician and novelist of New York city, and the author of A Matter of Taste; A Mission Flower; and Old Boniface.
Pick, Bernhard
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1842, in Prussia. He is a lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, prior to 1884 a presbyterian minister; and the author of Luther as a Hymnist; Historical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ according to Extra Canonical Sources; Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; and The Talmud: What It Is.
Pickard, Joseph Coffin
educator, was born in September, 1826, in Auburn.
In 1873 he became professor of the English language and literature in the Industrial university at Urbana, Ill.
Pickard, Samuel Thomas
journalist, author, was born in 1828 in Massachusetts. He is a writer who for many years edited the Portland (Maine) Transcript. He is the author of Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Pickens, Andrew J
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1739, in Paxton, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature from the close of the war until 1793, when he was elected a representative in congress from 1793 to 1795. In 1795 he was commissioned major-general of the South Carolina militia, and was frequently a commissioner to treat with the Indians. He died Aug. 17, 1817, in Pendleton district, S. C.
Pickens, Francis Wilkinson
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born April 7, 1805, in Togadoo, S. C. In 1832 he was a member of the South Carolina state legislature, and took part in the nullification excitement.
He was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1845. In 1844 he was elected to the state senate, and was minister to Russia from 1857 to 1860. When South Carolina seceded from the Union he was chosen governor of the state. He died Jan. 25, 1869, in Edgefield, S. C.
Pickens, Israel
state legislator, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Jan. 30, 1780, in Mecklenburg county (now Cabarrus), N. C. He served one year in the North Carolina state legislature. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1817, in which year he was appointed register of the land office of Mississippi territory. On removing to Alabama he was elected governor of that state in 1821, and in 1826 was a senator in congress from Alabama. He died April 24, 1827, in Cabarrus, N. C.
Pickens, Rupert T
lawyer, legislator, was born April 4, 1860, in Buncombe county, N. C. He has been mayor of Ellijay, Ga., and during 1891-96 was mayor of Lexington, N. C., in which city he is a prominent lawyer. He has served as a representative in the North Carolina state legislature, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his state.
Pickering, Charles
naturalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1805, in Susquehanna county, Pa. He was a naturalist of eminence, and the author of Races of Men and Their Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution of Animals and Men; and Chronological History of Plants.
He died March 17, 1878, in Boston, Mass.
Pickering, Edward Charles
author, was born July 19, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is the director of Harvard observatory at Cambridge, and author of Elements of Physical Manipulation.
Pickering, Henry
poet, was born Oct. 8, 1781, in Newburg, N. Y. He was a poet of New York who published Ruins of Pæstum; Athens, and Other Poems; and The Buckwheat Cake. He died Oct. 8, 1871, in Newburg, N. Y.
Pickering, John
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 22, 1737, in Newington, N. H.
He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of New Hampshire. He was a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire from 1790 to 1795, and was at one time chief justice.
He was subsequently judge of the United States district court for New Hampshire.
He died April 11, 1805, in Portsmouth.
Pickering, John
lawyer, linguist, author, was born Feb. 7, 1777, in Salem, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston and a linguist of eminence, and the author of Greek and English Lexicon; Collection of Words and Phrases Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States; and Remarks on the Indian Languages of North America. He died May 5, 1846, in Boston, Mass.
Pickering, Mrs. M
educator, poet, was born in 1830, in Steubenville, Ohio.
For thirteen years she was engaged in educational work; and also took an active part in religious and temperance work.
She is a poet of ability, and the author of a volume of collected poems. She is also represented in Poets of America and other standard works.
Pickering, Octavius
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 2, 1791, in Wyoming, Pa. He was a Boston lawyer who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1822- 40; and Life of Timothy Pickering (completed by Upham). He died Oct. 29, 1868, in Boston, Mass.
Pickering, Timothy
statesman, cabinet officer, was born July 17, 1745, in Salem, Mass. In 1776 he was appointed one of the judges of the court of common pleas for Essex, Mass., and sole judge of the maritime court for the middle district. In 1777 he became adjutant-general, and subsequently quartermaster-general.
In 1791 he was made postmaster-general; in 1794 secretary of war, and the following year was appointed secretary of state. In 1803 he was elected a United States senator to fill a vacancy; and two years later was elected for a term of six years.
He died Jan. 9, 1829, in Salem, Mass.
Pickering, William
governor, was born in England. In 1861 he was appointed from Illinois governor of the territory of Washington, residing in Olympia, serving in office until 1867.
Pickering, William Henry
astronomer, educator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1858, in Boston, Mass. He is an astronomer, professor in Harvard university from 1887, and the author of Walking Guide to the White Mountain Range.
Pickett, Albert James
author, was born Aug. 13, 1810, in Anson county, N. C. He was a writer of Montgomery, Ala., who published a History of Alabama.
He died Oct. 28, 1858, in Montgomery, Ala.
Pickett, George Edward
solaner, was born Jan. 25, 1825, in Richmond, Va. In 1861 he joined the confederate army as colonel, and attained the rank of major-general.
Pickett, James C
soldier, lawyer, journalist, state legislator, was born Feb. 6, 1793, in Fauquier county, Va. In the war of 1812 he was an officer in the United States artillery, and served also in the army from 1818 to 1821. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1822; and secretary of the state from 1825 to 1828. He was secretary of legation to Columbia from 1829 to 1833. He was commissioner of the United States patent office in 1835; was fourth auditor of the treasury from 1835 to 1838; and was minister to Ecuador in 1838. He was charge d'affaires to Peru from 1838 to 1845. He died July 10, 1872, in Washington.
Pickle, George Wesley
lawyer, was born March 6, 1845, in Knox county, Tenn. He received his education in the East Tennessee university and the Princeton college of New Jersey. Since 1886 he has been attorney-general and reporter of Tennessee. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south; takes an active part in political affairs; has filled several public positions of honor; and contributes extensively to law literature and the periodical press.
Pickler, John A
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1844, near Salem, Ind. He removed to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1874; and was a Garfield elector, second district of Iowa, in 1880. He was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1881. He moved to Dakota in 1883, and was elected to the Dakota legislature in 1884, and appointed inspector in public-land service in interior department in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Pickman, Benjamin
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born in 1763. In 1800 he was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature; was elected a state senator, and was re-elected a number of years. In 1807 he became a member of the executive council, and was a representative in congress from 1809 to 1811. In 1820 he was a member of the convention for revising the state constitution. He died in August, 1843, in Salem, Mass.