Pomeroy, Seth – Poole, Edward
Pomeroy, Seth
soldier, was born May 20, 1706, in Northampton, Mass. He was an ardent patriot, and in 1774-75 served as a delegate to the provincial congress, by which he was elected a general officer in 1774, and brigadier-general in 1775. He died Feb. 19, 1777, in Peekskill.
Pomeroy, Theodore Medad
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 31, 1824, in Cayuga, N. Y. During 1851-56 The was district attorney of Cayuga county, N. Y.; a member of the assembly of the New York state legislature in 1857; and a member of the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses during 1861-69, being speaker of the house in 1869. In 1875-76 he was mayor of the city of Auburn, N. Y.; was a state senator in 1878-79; and has taken an active part in the public and political affairs of his state. 1
Pond, Benjamin
state legislator, congressman. He served four years in the assembly of New York from Essex county.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813; and was reelected. He died in June, 1815, in Schroon, N. Y.
Pond, C. H
governor. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1853; and was subsequently acting governor of the state for almost one year.
Pond, Chester Pratt
educator, author, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1827, in Venango county, Pa. In 1857 he opened the business school in Kansas at Leavenworth. For fifty years he has been a business college teacher; and now conducts a private school of business in Topeka. He is the author of several prose works, and a volume of poems.
Pond, Enoch
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born July 29, 1791, in Wrentham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological seminary at Bangor, Maine, from 1832, and its president from 1856. He was the author of Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History; Pastoral Theology; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of Increase Mather; Plato: his Life, Works, Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theology; and History of God's Church. He died Jan. 21, 1882, in Bangor, Maine.
Pond, Frederick Eugene
author, was born April 8, 1856, in Backwaukee, Wis. He is a sporting writer and editor of Chicago; and the author of Handbook for Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Eminent Sportsmen; and Gun Trial and Field Records of America.
Pond, George Edward
journalist, author, was born March 11, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He is a journalist of New York and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and Navy Journal; and the author of The Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
Pond, James Burton
soldier, lecture manager, was born June 11, 1838, in Cuba, N. Y. He served in the civil war; attained for ganant services the rank of major. After the civil war he entered into the mercantile business; and is now a lecture manager.
Pond, Samuel William
missionary, author, was born April 10, 1808, in Washington, Conn. He is a congregational missionary to the Indians in Minnesota; and the author of History of Joseph in the Dakota Language; and Wonapi Inonpa, the Second Dakota Reading Book.
Pond, William Adams
soldier, music-publisher, was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Albany, N. Y. He became well known as a publisher, and at the time of his death was president of the United States Music Publishers' association. He died Aug. 12, 1885, in New York city.
Ponder, James
merchant, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1819, in Milton, Del. In 1856 he was elected a representative to the Delaware legislature; and in 1864 was elected state senator, and in 1867 became speaker of that body. In 1870 he was elected governor of Delaware for the term ending in 1875.
Pook, Samuel Hartt
naval constructor, was born Jan. 17, 1827, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1842 he became a naval architect, and in 1866 was appointed constructor in the United States navy.
Pook, Samuel Moore
naval constructor, was born Aug. 15, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was the inventor of numerous devices connected with his profession, and wrote A Method of Comparing the Lines; and Draughting Vessels Propelled by Sail or Steam. He died Dec. 2, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pool, Charles C
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1845 in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1868, and in 1870 was elected a judge of the superior court of the state of North Carolina. He was twice elected a member of congress, and in 1896 became mayor of his native city. a
Pool, John
lawyer, United States senator, was born June 16, 1826, in Pasquotank county, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina state senate in 1856 and 1858; and was again chosen to the state senate as a peace candidate. He took a leading part in the movements for peace.
He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1865, and was again elected to the senate.
In 1865 he was elected a senator in congress from North Carolina, but was not admitted; and in 1868 was re-elected to the same position for the term ending in 1873. He died Aug. 1.8, 1884, in Washington, D. C.
Pool, Maria Louise
author, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. She was a novelist of Rockland, Mass., for many years a writer for the New York Tribune; and the author of In Buncombe County; A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs.
Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The Two Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; Against Human Nature; In a Dike Shanty; In the First Person; and Boss and Other Dogs.
Pool, Walter F
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1850, in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortyeighth congress. He died Aug. 25, 1883, in Elizabeth City, N. C.
Poole, Daniel
soldier, manufacturer, inventor, was born June 10, 1797, in Abingdon, Mass. He was the inventor and patentee of shoe nails, and other valuable nails and tacks, which he manufactured in Philadelphia, Pa. About 1827 he invented and patented a cracker machine, and also a spinning jenny. He also invented a dredging machine, brick-making machinery, and a quartz crusher. He died March 5, 1864, at Mt. Carmel, Ill., of which city he was mayor in 1854.
Poole, Edward Valentine
banker, was born April 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He founded the First National bank of Pittston, Pa., and the Home Savings bank of South Waverly, Pa. He was captain of an independent military company. He died Oct. 6, 1887, in Wyoming, Del.
Poole, Fitch
journalist, librarian, state legislator, author, poet, was born June 13, 1803, in Danvers, Mass. He edited the Danvers Wizard from its establishment in 1859 till 1868. He was the founder of the Mechanics' Institute library, which afterward became the Peabody institute, and he was its librarian from 1856 till his death. He was in the legislature in 1841-42, and held several local offices. He was the author of numerous satirical ballads that attained popularity, the best known of which was Giles Corey's Dream. He died Aug. 19, 1873, in Peabody, Mass.
Poole, Mrs. Hester Martha
[HUNT], author, was born in 1843 in Vermont. She is a writer living at Metutchen, N. J., who has written much for periodicals on social and domestic topics; and the author of Fruits and How to Use Them.
Poole, James Earl
lawyer, journalist, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served as mayor of Weimar, Tex., for two terms; in 1880 he was prosecuting attorney of his county; and in 1884-90 was county judge for three terms. He is the editor and owner of the Free Press of Haskell, Tex.
Poole, Murray Edward
lawyer, author, was born July 17, 1857, in Centre Moreland, Pa. He attended the Wyoming seminary, and in 1880 graduated from the Cornell university with the degree of A. B. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar; and the same year was appointed special county judge by Governor David B. Hill. He is the author of the History of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass.; and His Descendants; and has contributed to several cyclopedias and numerous leading newspapers and magazines. He is a member of the American Historical association, the American Bar association, Society of the Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Military Society of Foreign Wars, Society of the War of 1812, and over eighty other historical and learned societies in the United States and foreign countries.
Poole, Samuel
legislator, was born in 1790 in Weymouth, Mass. He was one of the original settlers of Abington, Mass., and the first representative of that place to the general court in 1735, in which he served several successive years.
He died in 1785.
Poole, Samuel
JR., patriot of the revolutionary war, was born Sept. 18, 1813, in Abington, Mass. He was a representative to the general court in 1765, and 1778-80, and a member of the first state constitutional convention of 1879.
He died April 28, 1796, in Plainfield, Mass.
Poole, Samuel
soldier, farmer, was born Aug. 27, 1736, in Abington, Mass.
He was a soldier in the old French and
Poole, Edward
colonist, was born in 1609 in Weymouth, England. In 1639 he came to America and founded Wey-Indian wars, and became a second-lieumouth, Mass. He was a large landed proprietor, an influential man, and died in tenant in the revolutionary war, in which he served five years. He died Dec. 19, 1830, at Easton, Mass.