Pike, James – Pinckney, Charles Cotes- Worth
Pike, James
clergyman, congressman, was born in November, 1818, in Salisbury, Mass. He was a minister in the methodist episcopal church from 1841 to 1854; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Pike, James Shepard
journalist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Calais, Maine. He was a journalist of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, in 1861-66, and the author of A Prostrate State; The Restoration of the Currency; The Financial Crisis; Horace Greeley in 1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; The New Puritan; and New England Two Hundred Years Ago. He died Nov. 24, 1882, in Calais, Maine.
Pike, Joseph W
farmer, educator, was born Feb. 16, 1832, in Columbiana county, Ohio. He has been a justice of the peace, town councilman, school teacher, and prominent in religious affairs in Iowa at Millersville and Sioux City. He has contributed articles on politics, temperance and prohibition for thirty-five His poems years. have appeared in several standard works, and in the leading magazines and newspapers of the United States.
PIKE, MRS.
MARY HAYDEN (GREEN), author, was born Nov. 30, 1825, in Eastport, Maine. She was a once popular novelist, and the author of Ida May; Caste; Agnes; and Bond and Free.
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
soldier, traveler, was born Jan. 5, 1779, in Lamberton, N. J. He was a surveyor of the newly acquired territory of Louisiana in 1805, and discovered that lofty peak of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado which bears his name. He died April 27, 1813.
Pilcher, Elijah Homes
clergyman, author, was born June 2, 1810, in Athens, Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman of Michigan who wrote a History of Protestantism in Michigan. He died April 7, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pilcher, James J
surgeon, author, was born March 18, 1857, in Adrian, Mich.
He was surgeon in the army; professor of military surgery in the Ohio Medical university; and of military hygiene in the Starling Medical college. He is the author of First Aid in Illness and Injury; and a number of other popular medical works.
Pile, William A
soldier, clergyman, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1829, near Indianapolis, Ind. He was a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and a member of the Missouri conference at the commencement of the rebellion. In 1861 he joined the Missouri volunteers as chaplain; in 1862 had command of a battery of artillery as captain, and was soon afterward promoted to the rank of colonel of infantry. In 1863 he was appointed a brigadier-general of United States volunteers, and was in the Missouri campaign under General Lyon. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortieth congress, and in 1869 was appointed governor of New Mexico. In 1871 he was appointed minister resident to Venezuela. He died July 7, 1889, in Monrovia, Cal.
Pilgrim, William Mawer
merchant, legislator, was born Nov. 2, 1839, in England. This successful merchant has served as a representative in the legislature of Illinois from Bradford.
Pilling, James Constantine
ethnologist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1846, ogist of distinction in the government serin Washington, D. C. He was an ethnolvice, among whose writings are Bibliographies of the Languages of the North American Indians, of the Eskimoan Languages, of the Siouan, of the Iroquoian, and others. He died in 1895.
Pillow, Gideon Johnson
soldier, was born June 8, 1806, in Williamson county, Tenn. He became a brigadiergeneral in 1846, and in 1861 major-general. He died Oct. 6, 1878, in Lee county, Ark.
Pillsbury, Albert E
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 19, 1849, in Milford, N. H. He has attained eminence as one of the foremost lawyers of New England, and has a large practice in Boston, Mass. He has filled various positions in financial, charitable and other corporations and associations. During 1876-78 he was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives; a member of the Massachusetts state senate in 1884-86, and president of the senate in 1885-86. In 1.891-93 he was attorney-general of Massachusetts; and now holds the chair of constitutional law in the Law school of the Boston university. He has received the honorary degree of A. M. from the Harvard university.
Pillsbury, Charles Alfred
merchant, was born about 1843 in Warner, N. H. In 1869 he came west and settled in Minneapolis. He went about the study of milling flour in a scientific way and in a short time mastered it. At that time there were four or five oldfashioned mills in the town, and he undertook to introduce new methods by replacing the old stone grinders with steel ones. In 1872 he enlarged his plant, took his father and brother into partnership, and by 1890 he had built up the largest flour mill in the world. The new process created a demand for hard spring wheat, which had always ranked as less desirable than the soft winter cereal. In 1890 an English syndicate capitalized the concern, and Mr.
Pillsbury is its manager. The Pillsbury mills are run on the profit-sharing plan.
Pillsbury, John S
merchant, state senator, governor, was born in 1827, in New Hampshire. In 1854 he removed to Minnesota and settled at the Falls of St.
Anthony; and engaged in business as a hardware merchant. He was for twelve years a member of the Minnesota state senate; and in 1864 was president of the board of regents of the State university of Minnesota. In 1877 he was elected governor of Minnesota, and in 1880 was reelected, serving until 1884.
Pillsbury, Oliver
educator, state legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1817, in Henniker, N. H. He served three terms in the New Hampshire legislature, was a state councillor in 1862 and 1863, displaying executive ability and energy in business connected with the New Hampshire quota of troops, and in 1869 was appointed the first insurance commissioner of the state, holding the office till his death. He died Feb. 22, 1888, in Concord, N. H.
Pillsbury, Parker
abolitionist, reformer, author, was born Sept. 22, 1809, in Hamilton, Mass. In his infancy his parents moved to Henniker, N. H., where he received his education in the common schools. In 1839 he was licensed to preach, but subsequently abandoned the pulpit and threw himself into the cause of emancipation. His greatest work in the anti-slavery cause was upon the platform, but for a time he had editorial charge of the Herald of Freedom, and later of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. From 1840 until the legal extinction of slavery he was one of the most zealous and effective of the abolition orators; and visited England in its cause in 1854. He subsequently engaged in the elevation of woman and kindred reforms in conjunction with Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. In his later years he has been a student of theosophy, spiritism and other philosophical and psychological subjects. He is the author of Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles; and a large number of addresses and articles on various subjects. He resides in Concord, N. H.
Pilsbury, Timothy
state senator, congressman, was born April 12, 1789, in Newbury, Mass. He settled in Maine; was appointed a member of the executive council; and also served in the state legislature. He went from Maine to Ohio, thence to Louisiana, and finally to Texas.
He served a number of years in the senate and house of representatives of Texas; and when that republic came into the union he was elected a representative in congress from 1846 to 1849. He died Nov. 23, 1858, near Danville, Texas.
Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart
journalist, state senator, was born May 10, 1827, in Macon, Ga. He is of African descent; was a member of the constitutional convention of 1867; state senator in 1868; and in 1870 established the New Orleans Louisianian.
Pinckney, Charles
state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1758 in Charleston, S. C. He served in the provincial legislature; and was a member of the provincial congress in 1785. In 1787 he was a delegate to the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, and signed that instrument. He was governor of South Carolina from 1789 to 1792, and from 1796 to 1798. He was a senator in congress from 1798 to 1801; and in 1801 was appointed minister to Spain, holding that position until 1805. He served in the state legislature in 1810 and 1812; and was a representative in congress from 1819 to 1821. He died Oct. 29, 1824, in Charleston, S. C.
Pinckney, Charles Cotes- Worth
soldier, lawyer, jurist, public official, author, was born Feb. 25, 1746, in Charleston, S. C. He was a member of the first provincial congress of South Carolina in 1775; and was a captain, and soon after colonel of the first South Carolina regiment. In 1779 he was president of the South Carolina senate; and defended Charleston against General Provost. He was a member of the convention which framed the federal constimilitia; and in 1796 was minister to tution. He was major-general of state France. On his return home he was made major-general; was a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1800; and was the author of the famous sentiment: Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.
He died Aug. 16, 1825, in Charleston, S. C.