Pinckney, Charles Cotes- Worth – Pise, Charles Constantine
Pinckney, Charles Cotes- Worth
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1812, in Charleston, S. C. He is an episcopal clergyman of Charleston; and the author of Life of General Thomas Pinckney.
Pinckney, Henry Laurens
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Sept. 24, 1794, in Charleston, S.
C. He was a member of the South Carolina legislature from 1816 to 1832; and was mayor of Charleston in 1832, and in 1839 and 1840. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1833 to 1837; and was subsequently collector of the port, and a member of the legislature. He was editor of the Charleston Mercury in 1819; and was a prominent leader in the state rights party. He was the author of Memoirs of Jonathan Maxey; Robert Y. Hayne; and Andrew Jackson. He died Feb. 3, 1863, in Charleston, S. C.
Pinckney, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 23, 1750, in Charleston, S. C. He was governor of South Carolina from 1787 to 1789; was minister to Great Britain from 1792 to 1794; and in the latter year went on a mission to Spain, where he made the treaty of St. Ildefonso, securing to the United States the free navigation of the Mississippi. In 1796 he returned to Charleston; and was elected a representative in congress from 1799 to 1801. He died Nov. 2, 1828, in Charleston, S. C.
Pindall, James
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1820, when he resigned.
Pindar, John S
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1835, in Sharon, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected the first police justice of the village of Cobleskill, N. Y. In 1872 he was elected trustee of the village, in which position he continued to serve until 1882, when he was elected president of the village; and was annually twice re-elected. In 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to fill a vacancy in the fifty-first congress.
Pindar, Susan
author, was born about 1820 in Tarrytown, N. Y. She is the author of Susan Pindar's Story Books; and Legends of the Flowers.
Pingree, Hazen S
merchant, governor, was born Aug. 30, 1842, in Denmark, Maine. He was elected mayor of Detroit in 1886 and served three successive terms. He was elected governor of Michigan in 1896.
Pingree, Samuel Everett
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 2, 1832, in Salisbury, N. H. He was twice elected state's attorney for Windsor county, Vt.; and in 1882 was elected lieutenant-governor of Vermont, serving two years. In 1884 he was elected governor of Vermont for a term of two years.
Pinkerton, Alfred S
lawyer, was born March 19, 1856, in Lancaster, Pa.
In 1886 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives; and in 1890 was elected to the state senate.
Pinkerton, Allan
detective, author, was born Aug. 25, 1819, in Scotland. He is a chartist who came to America in 1842 and settled in Chicago, where he founded a famous detective agency. He was the author of The Molly Maguires and the Detectives; Criminal Reminiscences; The Spy of the Rebellion; Thirty Years a Detective; and Railroad Forgers and the Detectives. He died July 1, 1884, in Chicago, Ill.
Pinkley, Virgil A
orator, poet, was born Feb. 18, 1852, in Girard, Ill. He is the director of elocution and oratory in the college of Music of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of a standard work entitled Essentials of Elocution and Oratory; and a volume of poems.
Pinkney, Frederick
lawyer, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 14, 1804, at sea. He was deputy attorney-general of Maryland, and assistant editor of the Marylander, and subsequently of the Baltimore Patriot. During the civil war he published poems and songs that became popular.
He died June 13, 1873.
Pinkney, Ninian
soldier, author, was born in 1776 in Baltimore, Md. He became captain in 1807, was major of the fifth infantry, and aide to Gen. James Wilkinson in 1813, became lieutenant-colonel in 1814, and in 1820 was promoted colonel.
He was the author of a book entitled Travels in the South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc by a Route Never Before Performed. He died Dec. 16, 1825, in Baltimore, Md.
Pinkney, Ninian
surgeon, was born June 7, 1811, in Annapolis, Md. He entered the United States navy as assistant surgeon in 1834, became surgeon in 1841, and became medical director with the rank of commodore in 1871. He died Dec. 15, 1877, near Easton, Md.
Pinkney, William
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born March 17, 1764, in Annapolis, Md. He was a member of the conthe convention which ratified the federal constitution; and from 1789 to 1792 was a in representative congress. In 1795 he was a member of the state legislature. In 1806 he was envoy extraord i nary to England, and in 1808 was made minister plenipotentiary. He settled in Baltimore in 1811; was soon after a member of the state senate; and in 1811 was attorney-general. He was a representative in congress in 1815 and 1816; and was then made minister to Russia and envoy to Naples. In 1819 he was elected a member of the United States senate, and continued in that station until his death. He died Feb. 25, 1822, in Washington, D. C. was
Pinkney, William
bishop, was born April 17, 1810, in Annapolis, Md.
He was the fifth protestant episcopal bishop of Maryland. He died July 4, 1883.
Pinnell, Ethan Allen
educator, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 17, 1834, in Crawford county, Mo. He received his education in the public schools of Missouri; and subsequently taught in the schools of Missouri and Illinois.
He served four years in the confederate service as captain of company D, eighth regiment Missouri infantry. After the he continued war teaching until 1873, when he was admitted to the bar at Steelville, Mo. During 1882-86 he was judge of probate in his native county; and attained success as an able lawyer.
In 1893 he moved to Florida, where he is a solicitor in chancery, abstractor of land titles, and successful lawyer at Bronson.
Pinney, Daniel H
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 2, 1837, in Albion, N. Y. He was a representative in the Illinois state legislature in 1876. and 1877; and in 1883 was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona.
Pinney, Laura Young
author, poet, was born in Iowa. She is the author of a collection of poems entitled Within. the Golden Gate.
Pinney, Norman
clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1800, in Simsbury, Conn. In 1852 he was associated with Joseph Rindge in establishing a large boys' school, which was called the Collegiate institute of Mobile. He contributed poetry to periodicals, and was the author of a series of text-books, including First Book in French; Key to the Same; Progressive French Reader; and Practical French Reader. He died Oct. 1, 1862, in New Orleans, La.
Pintard, Lewis
merchant, was born He Oct. 12, 1732, in New York city. ranked as one of the great merchants of his time, and was one of the incorporators of the chamber of commerce, which was established by George III in 1770 and by the New York legislature in 1784. He died March 25, 1818, in Princeton, N. J.
Piper, Richard Upton
physician, author, was born April 3, 1818, in Stratham, N. H. He is a Chicago physician; and the author of Operative Surgery; and The Trees of America.
Piper, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813.
Piper, William A
soldier, congressman, was born in 1825 in Franklin county, Pa. He moved to California in 1849, in San Francisco. In 1874 he was elected a representative from California to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Pirce, William A
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1824, in Scituate, R. I. In 1855 he was elected a state senator; and in 1858 and again in 1862 was elected a representative in the Rhode Island legislature. In 1862 he was appointed assessor of internal revenue for the second district of Rhode Island, which position he held until the office was abolished in 1873. In 1879 he was again elected a member of the state house of representatives, and was re-elected in 1880 and 1881. In 1882 he was again elected state senator. In 1884 he was elected representative from Rhode a Island to the forty-ninth congress.
Pirtle, Henry
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1798, in Washington county, Ky. In 1825 he was appointed a judge of the general court to fill a vacancy. He was chancellor of the Louisville chancery court and professor of constitutional law, equity, and commercial law in the university of Louisville in 1846-68. He published Digest of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. He died March 28, 1880, in Louisville, Ky.
Pise, Charles Constantine
clergyman, author, was born in 1802 in Annapolis, Md. He was a once prominent. Roman catholic clergyman of Brooklyn; and the author of History of the Church to the Reformation; The Acts of the Apostles in Blank Verse; Father Rowland; Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story; The Pleasures of Religion, and Other Poems; Horæ Vagabundæ; Alethia; Zenosius; Letters to Ada; Lives of St. Ignatius and His First Companions; Notes on a Protestant Catechism; and Christianity and the Church. He died May 26, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.