Picknell, William Lamb – Pierce, John
Picknell, William Lamb
artist, was born Oct. 23, 1854, in Hinesburg, Vt.
Among his works are Route de Concarneau; On the Borders of the Marsh, in the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; A Stormy Day; Coast of Ipswich, in Boston Art Museum; Sunshine and Drifting Sand; A Sultry Day; Wintry March; Bleak December; After the Storm; and November Solitude.
Picotte, Theophile E
journalist, was born Oct. 26, 1848, in Montreal, Canada. He is the editor and owner of The Times of Hailey, Idaho, one of the foremost daily and weekly newspapers of that state.
Picton, Thomas
politician, lawyer, soldier, journalist, author, was born May 9, 1822, in New York city. He edited the True National Democrat, the organ of the free-soilers in New York city. On the reorganization of the Sunday Mercury, he became one of its editors, and contributed to the paper a series of popular stories under the name of Paul Preston.
These were subsequently published in book-form, and had an extensive sale.
At the beginning of the civil war he raised a battalion, which was consolidated with the thirty-eighth New York regiment, with which he went to the field. He was the author of Reminiscences of a Sporting Journalist. He died Feb. 20, 1891, in New York city.
Pidcock, James Nelson
civil engineer, agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in White House, N. J. He was state senator from 1877 to 1880, and in 1884 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Piehn, Louis H
banker, was born March 10, 1837, in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1852, and twenty years later settled in Nora Springs, Iowa, where he is president of the First National bank. He is also the president of the Anti-Vaccination society of America, and president of the United States Medical Liberty league.
Pieper, Franz August Otto
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1852, in Germany. In 1878 he became professor of theology in Concordia seminary, St. Louis, Mo. This post he held until 1887, when he was elected president of the institution. He is a frequent contributor to denominational periodicals, and has published several works in German.
Pierce, Benjamin
soldier, governor, was born Dec. 25, 1757, in Chelmsford, Mass. He joined the revolutionary army after the battle of Lexington, and remained in it through the war; and served as ensign, lieutenant and brigadier-general. From 1789 to 1802 he was a member of the general council, and chancellor from 1803 to 1809, and again from 1814 to 1818. He was high sheriff from 1809 to 1814, and again from 1818 to 1823, and was governor from 1827 to 1829. He died April 1, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. H.
Pierce, Benjamin
educator, author, was born April 4, 1809, in Salem, Mass.
He was president of the American Institution for the Advancement of Science in 1853; one of the council which established Dudley Observatory in 1855; superintendent of the United States coast survey from 1867 to 1874. He was a contributor to several scientific journals, and was the author of Treatise on Analytic Mechanics; Associative Algebra; and Theory of the Tans of Comets. He discovered and announced the fluidity of Saturn's rings in 1851, and prepared a volume of lunar tables for the Nautical Almanac.
Pierce, Byron Root
soldier, was born Sept. 20, 1829, in East Bloomfield, N. Y. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the third Michigan volunteers. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864, and brevetted majorgeneral in 1865.
Pierce, Charles W
soldier, congressman, was born in 1823 in New York.
He was a lieutenant in the Illinois volunteers soon after the commencement of the rebellion. He settled in Alabama in 1867, and in 1868 was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress.
Pierce, David G
clergyman, poet, was born April 27, 1840, in South Britain, Conn. He has filled pastorates in the congregational churches of South Britain, Conn., and is the author of a volume of poems.
Pierce, Edward Lillie
lawyer, author, was born March 29, 1829, in Stoughton, Mass. He was a prominent Boston lawyer, and the author of American Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sumner; The Law of Railroads; and Enfranchisement and Citizenship.
Pierce, Emmons S
poet, was born Jan. 27, 1831, in Erie county, N. Y. He is a well-known horseman of Springfield, N. Y., and the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Turf, and Other Ballads.
Pierce, Franklin
fourteenth president of the United States, was born Nov. 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, N. H. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1824, and then entered the law school at Northampton, Mass., where he remained two years.
In 1829 he was elected to the New Hampshire legislature, where he served four years, and the last two years was speaker of the house. In 1833 he was elected a representative in congress, and held the office four years. He married Miss Jane M. Appleton in 1834. In 1837 he was elected to the United States senate, and in 1842 resigned his seat. When the Mexican war broke out he accepted the commission of brigadier-general, and distinguished himself at the battles of Cerro-Gordo and Chapultepec. In 1850 he presided over the constitutional convention of New Hampshire. June 1, 1852, the national democratic convention met at Baltimore.
The two-thirds rule was adopted. The balloting began June 3, and on the first ballot Lewis Cass received 114 votes; James Buchanan, 93; William L. Marcy, 27; Stephen Arnold Douglas, 20. The seventeenth ballot that day stood: For Cass, 99; Buchanan, 87; Douglas, 50; Marcy, 26.
The second day's balloting closed with the thirty-third trial, as follows: Cass, 123; Buchanan, 72; Douglas, 60; Marcy, 25.
On the thirty-sixth ballot the Virginia delegation cast their votes for Franklin Pierce, and on the forty-ninth he received the unanimous vote of the convention. William Rufus King was nominated for vice-president. Being duly elected, they were inaugurated March 4, 1853. There was not a change made in his cabinet officers during his administration, a thing that has never before or since happened. He left the presidential chair March 4, 1857, and returned to his home in New Hampshire, where he died Oct. 8, 1869. Pierce held office about seventeen years. He left about fifty thousand dollars.
Pierce, Frederick Clifton
author, was born July 30, 1856, in Worcester county, Mass. He is an Illinois writer who has written town histories of Barre and Grafton, Mass., and of Rockford, Ill.; The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce History and Genealogy; Peirce History and Genealogy; and Pearse and Pearce Genealogy.
Pierce, George Edmund
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 9, 1794, in Southbury, Conn. For twelve years he was a clergyman; and during 1834-55 was president of the Western Reserve college. He died May 28, 1871, in Hudson, Ohio.
Pierce, George Foster
bishop, author, was born Feb. 3, 1811, in Greene county, Ga. In 1854 he was elected and ordained methodist episcopal bishop at Columbus, Ga. He was the author of Incidents of Western Travel. In 1842 he was elected president of Emory college, resigning in 1854. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Transylvania university, and that of LL. D. by Randolph Macon college. He died Sept. 3, 1884, near Sparta, Ga.
Pierce, Gilbert Ashville
soldier, lawyer, journalist, governor, United States senator, author, was born Jan. 11. 1838, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected a representative in the Indiana legislature. In 1872 he accepted an editorial position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean; was made managing editor of that paper in 1876, and remained in editorial charge until 1881, when he was tendered, and accepted, the position of chief editorial writer on the Chicago Daily News. He was the author of the Dickens Dictionary, and of two novels of a political character, as well as a number of plays. In 1884 he was appointed governor of the territory of Dakota; and in 1889 became a United States senator from North Dakota.
Pierce, Henry Lillie
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1825, in Stoughton, Mass. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1860, 1861, 1862 and 1866; was an alderman of the city of Boston in 1870 and 1871, and was mayor of Boston in 1873. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-third congress to fill a vacancy, and in 1874 was elected to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
Pierce, Henry Niles
bishop of Arkansas and the Indian territory, was born Oct. 19, 1820, in Pawtucket, R. I.
He was elected missionary bishop of Arkansas and the Indian territory, and was consecrated in Christ church, Mobile, on Jan. 25, 1870. He has published numerous occasional sermons, essays, and addresses, and is the author of The Agnostic, and Other Poems.
Pierce, John
antiquarian, was born July 14, 1773, in Dorchester, Mass. He was an authority on genealogical and historical researches. He was for twenty years president of the Massachusetts Bible society, of which he was one of the founders. His works consist of eighteen manuscript volumes, which were bequeathed by him to the Massachusetts Historical society. He died Aug. 24, 1849, in Brookline, Mass.