Poole, Stephen D – Pope, Winfield Scott
Poole, Stephen D
educator, journalist, was born in 1852 in North Carolina. In 1882 he became state superintendent of public instruction of North Carolina; and subsequently wås editor of the New Orleans Daily Bee. He died in 1889 in New Orleans, La.
Poole, Theodore L
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 10, 1840, in Elbridge, N. Y. He enlisted as quartermaster sergeant in the one hundred and twentysecond regiment New York volunteers in 1862. He was discharged as captain and brevet major in 1866. He was county clerk of Onondaga county in 1868-70; and United States pension agent for the western district of New York from 1879 to 1888; commander of the department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1892. He has been engaged in the manufacture of salt and is interested in various manufacturing and other corporations; and is one of the directors of the bank of Syracuse. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Poole, William Frederick
bibliographer, librarian, author, was born Dec. 24, 1821, in Salem, Mass. He was a bibliographer of Chicago, librarian of the Public library there in 1874-87, and, from the latter date, of the Newberry library, Chicago. He is best known as compiler of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature.
Two supplementary volumes carry the work forward to January, 1892. Other works of his are, Anti-Slavery Opinions before 1800; The Battle of the Dictionaries; Websterian Orthography; and Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. He died in 1894.
Poole, Willard Henry
educator, author, was born in 1864 in Massachusetts. He is an educator of Fall River, Mass.; and the author of Elementary Course in Experimental Physics.
Pooley, James Henry
educator, journalist, physician, surgeon, author, was born Nov. 17, 1839, in England. Since 1883 he has held the chair of surgery in Toledo Medical college. He has edited the Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal since 1876, and has been a voluminous contributor to surgical literature.
Poor, Charles Henry
naval officer, was born June 11, 1808, in Cambridge, Mass. He served with distinction in the civil war, attaining the rank of rear-admiral. He died Nov. 5, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Poor, Enoch
soldier, was born June 21, 1736, in Andover, Mass. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general in 1777. He died Sept. 8, 1780, in Hackensack, N. J.
Poor, Henry Varnum
lawyer, journalist, author, was born in December, 1812, in Andover, Maine. In 1868 he published a Manual of the Railroads of the United States, which has been issued yearly. In 1877 he published Money: its Laws and History, a large octavo volume, as also a work entitled Resumption and the Silver Question. Besides these more important works he has been a frequent contributor to the newspapers and periodicals on a great variety of topics, and is now, it is said, engaged on a History of the United States.
Poor, John Alfred
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1808, in Andover, Maine. He was the first active promoter of the present railroad system of his native state; originated the European and North American line; and wrote Vindication of the Claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges as the Founder of English Colonization in America. He died Sept. 5, 1871, in Portland, Maine.
Poore, Benjamin Perley
journalist, author, was born Nov. 2, 1820, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a once wellknown journalist of Washington; and the author of Campaign Life of Zachary Taylor; Early Life of Napoleon; Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe; Agricultural History of Essex County, Massachusetts; Life of Burnside; Political Register and Congressional Directory, 1776-1878; and Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years. He died May 30, 1887, in Washington, D. C.
Poore, Henry Rankin
artist, educator, was born March 21, 1859, in Newark, N. J. He studied in Paris, and for many years has been instructor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and is professor of Chautauqua School of Fine Arts.
Pope, Albert A
soldier, manufacturer, was born May 20, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He served as a soldier during the civil war; was promoted to lieutenantcolonel. The Pope Manufacturing company, for which Colonel Pope supplied the capital, and of which he has from the outset been president and active manager, was organized early in 1877 for the marketing of small patented articles. The same year he visited England, and placed an order for an importation of English bicycles. The first bicycles were manufactured in the United States in 1878 by the Weed Sewing Machine company of Hartford, Conn. They were soon controlled and finally bought out by Colonel Pope. He has built up a large business, employing a capital of over two millions of dollars, utilizing four factories at Hartford, Conn.
Pope, Benjamin W
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 20, 1853, in Franklin county, Ill. He attended the university of Champaign, Illinois, and the St. Louis and Chicago Law schools. He has been superintendent of schools in Du Quoin and Tamawa, Ill.; and was admitted to the bar in 1878. During 1890-94 he was county judge of Perry county; and since 1893 has been postmaster of Du- Quoin, Ill.
Pope, Cadesman
educator, clergyman, was born June 21, 1838, near Flat Shoals, Ga. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, finishing at Emory college of Oxford, Ga. In 1858 he entered the Georgia conference of the methodist episcopal church south, was transferred to Arkansas, where he filled important stations for twenty years; four years of which he was presiding elder in the Little Rock conference. In 1879 he returned to Georgia and preached for seven years; then for twelve years was president of the Female college of Millersburg, Ky.
Pope, Charles Alexander
surgeon, was born March 15, 1818, in Huntsville, Ala. He became professor of anatomy, and afterward of surgery in St. Louis university; aided in organizing St. Louis Medical college, and was president of the American Medical association in 1853. He died July 6, 1870, in Paris, Mo.
Pope, Franklin Leonard
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 2, 1840, in Great Barrington, Mass. He was an electrical engineer of New York city; and the author of Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph; and Life and Work of Joseph Henry.
Pope, John
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in 1770 in Prince William county, Va. He moved to Kentucky; served a number of years in the legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1801. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1807 to 1813; and in 1829 was appointed governor of the territory of Arkansas. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1843. He died July 12, 1845, in Springfield, Ky.
Pope, John
soldier, author, was born March 16, 1822, in Louisville, Ky. He was a prominent general in the federal army during the civil war.
In 1882 he was made a major-general in the regular army; assigned to the department of the Pacific in 1884; and retired in 1886. He was the author of a Memoir of his campaigns entitled Campaign in Virginia; and also published a valuable work on Explorations from the Red River to the Rio Grande. He died Sept. 23, 1892.
Pope, John Hunter
physician, author, was born Feb. 12, 1845, in Washington, Ga. From 1874 till 1875 he was secretary of the Harrison county, Texas, Medical association; and in 1879-80 he was president of the Texas State Medical association. He has published a History of Epidemic of Yellow Fever at Marshall, Tex.; Report on Climatology and Epidemics of Texas; and Report on the Science and Progress of Medicine. POPE, MRS. MARION [MANVILLE], poet, was born in 1859 in Wisconsin. She is a poet whose home in recent years has been in Valparaiso, Chili; and is the author of Over the Divide, and Other Verses.
Pope, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1784, in Louisville, Ky. He practiced law in St.
Genevieve, Mo.; was appointed secretary of the territory of Illinois in 1809, and removed there; and was elected delegate to congress in 1817. In 1818, when Illinois was admitted as a state, he was appointed United States district judge, and held that office until his death. He died Jan. 23, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo.
Pope, Patrick
H., congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835. He died in May, 1841, in Louisville, Ky.
Pope, William Cox
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been rector of the church of the Good Shepherd of St. Paul, Minn., from its organization in 1868 to the present time. He is the author of several religious works.
Pope, Winfield Scott
lawyer, legislator, was born July 20, 1847, in Davidson county, N. C. He is an eminent lawyer of Jefferson City, Mo.; has served two terms in the state legislature of Missouri.