Polk, Jefferson Scott – Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke
Polk, Jefferson Scott
lawyer, railway president, was born Feb. 18, 1831, near Georgetown, Ky. He received his education at the Georgetown college, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. In 1856 he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he engaged in the practice of law, and soon ranked with the ablest lawyers in the state. In 1885 he retired from the active practice of the law, and devoted his time and attention to his various personal interests; and has since then been engaged in promoting the building of various railroads leading into the city of Des Moines; in building other public improvements; and is largely interested in and president of the consolidated street railway system in the city of Des Moines.
Polk, John A
farmer, legislator, was born March 12, 1829, in Nelson county, Ky. He has given much of his time to grange and farmers' institute work; and for two terms was a representative in the Indiana state legislature. He is president of the Indianapolis, Greenwood and Franklin Electric railroad.
Polk, Lucius Eugene
soldier, state senator, was born July 10, 1833, in Salisbury, N. C. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate army as a private under Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, but was soon commissioned first lieutenant. He was rapidly promoted until he was made brigadier-general in 1862. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national democratic convention at Chicago, and in 1887 became a member of the senate of the state of Tennessee.
Polk, Milton D
journalist, lawyer, legislator, was born March 29, 1858, in New Castle, Ind. His father was born in South Carolina, of the same family as James K. Polk. He received his education in the Nebraska state university. During 1888-89 he represented his county in the Nebraska state senate; has practiced law since 1890 in Plattsmouth, Neb.; and since 1891 has been editor and owner of the Daily News and the News-Herald of that city.
Polk, Trusten
lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born May 29, 1811, in Sussex county, Del. In 1856 he was elected governor of Missouri; and resigned for a seat in the United States senate, to which he was elected for a term of six years from March 4, 1857. He was expelled for disloyalty Jan. 10, 1862. He died April 16, 1876, in St. Louis, Mo.
Polk, William
patriot, was born July 9, 1758, in Mecklenburg county, N.
C. In 1787 he was elected a member of the general assembly; and in 1812 was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular army. He died Jan. 4, 1834, in Raleigh, N. C.
Polk, William Hawkins
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 24, 1815, in Maury county, Tenn.
In 1841 and 1843 he was elected a representative in the Tennessee state legislature; and was appointed charge d' affaires to Naples, where he negotiated a treaty with the Two Sicilies. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1851 to 1853. He was a brother of President Polk. He died Dec. 16, 1862, in Nashville, Tenn.
Pollard, Edward Albert
journalist, author, was born Feb. 27, 1828, in Nelson county, Va. He was a once noted journalist of Richmond, Va., and an active opponent of the policy of Jefferson Davis during the civil war. He was the author of Black Diamonds; Letters of the Southern Spy; Southern History of the War; Observations in the North; The Lost Cause; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee and his Lieutenants; Life of Jefferson Davis, with the Secret History of the Confederacy; and The Virginia Tourist. He died Dec. 12, 1872, in Lynchburg, Va.
Pollard, Henry M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 14, 1836, in Plymouth, Vt. In 1865 he moved to Chillicothe, Mo., and practiced law. He was elected to the forty-fifth congress.
Pollard, Henry Rives
journalist, was born Aug. 29, 1833, in Nelson county, Va. In 1867 he established, with his brother, Southern Opinion, in Richmond, Va., of which he continued until his death one of the editors and proprietors. He died Nov. 24, 1868, in Richmond, Va.
Pollard, Joseph Greeley
manufacturer, legislator, was born Feb. 11, 1833, in Milton, N. H. He was a successful leather manufacturer in Woburn, Mass., but is not in active business now.
During 1866-68 he was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives, and in 1869-70 was a member of the state senate.
Pollard, Josephine
littérateur, author, was born about 1840 in New York city. She was a writer of New York city, whose work was mainly intended for juvenile readers. She was the author of The Gypsy Books; A Piece of Silver; Elfin Land; Vagrant Verses; Songs of Bird Life; The Decorative Sisters; The Boston Tea Party; and Gellivor, a Christmas Legend.
Pollock, Augustus
merchant, banker, was born July 5, 1830, in Westphalia. He emigrated to America in 1849; and in 1852 started in business for himself in Baltimore, Md. Two years later he moved his business to Wheeling, W. Va., which has since been his home. In 1860 he established a wholesale notion house in Wheeling, which he continued until 1871.
He then founded a cigar and tobacco factory, which he still continues, employing regularly over one hundred hands in the production of Crown Stogie cigars. He has always been a leader in every movement that had for its object the development of the business interests of his adopted city. He had been president of the German bank; president of the West Virginia Tobacco company; a director in the German Insurance company, and other incorporations. During the civil war he encouraged the organization of the first German company of Wheeling volunteers in the union army, and enlisted himself in the home guards.
Pollock, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Sept. 11, 1810, in Milton, Pa. He was a judge of the court of common pleas; was a representative in congress from his native state from 1843 to 1849; and was governor of Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1858. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; and in that year was appointed director of the United States mint in Philadelphia, serving as such until 1867. He died April 19, 1890, in Lock Haven, Pa.
Pollock, William D
educator, lawyer, was born Oct. 24, 1862, in Onslow county, N. C. He received his education in the university of North Carolina; has been superintendent of public instruction, mayor of Kingston, N. C.; and chairman of the democratic executive committee of his county. He is a prominent lawyer of Kingston, N. C.
Polsley, Daniel
agriculturist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1803, near Fairmont, Va. He was elected lieutenant-governor of the state, which position he held until West Virginia was admitted into the union. He was subsequently elected judge of the seventh judicial circuit for six years; and in 1866 was elected a representative from West Virginia to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Pomeroy, Benjamin
clergyman, was born Nov. 19, 1704, in Suffield, Conn.
He was ordained pastor on Dec. 16, 1735, in Hebron. During the French and Indian war he was chaplain to the American army, and he filled a like office during the revolutionary war. He was active in the movement that led to the founding of Dartmouth college, becoming one of its first trustees. He died Dec. 22, 1784, in Hebron, Conn.
Pomeroy, Charles
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1825, in Meriden, Conn. He became president of the national bank in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Pomeroy, John Norton
educator, lawyer, author, was born April 12, 1828, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a lawyer of Rochester, N. Y., but subsequently professor of law in the university of California in 1878-85. He was the author of Introduction to Municipal Law; Remedies and Remedial Rights; Specific Performance of Contract; Equity Jurisprudence; Riparian Rights; Introduction to United States Constitutional Law; and Lectures on International Law in Time of Peace.
He died Feb. 15, 1885, in San Francisco, Cal.
Pomeroy, Marcus Mills
journalist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Elmira, N. Y. He was a journalist successively of La Crosse, Wis.; New York city, and Chicago. He was the author of Sense; Nonsense; Gold Dust; Brick Dust; Our Saturday Nights; Home Harmonies; and Perpetual Money. He died in 1896.
Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke
lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Jan. 3, 1816, in Southampton, Mass. He was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts in 1852. He moved to Kansas; and in 1861 took his seat in the United States senate from Kansas for six years. He was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1873; and subsequently settled in Washington city.