Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin – Proctor, Redfield
Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Nov. 2, 1814, in Cambridge, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was one of the editors of The New York Observer, to which he contributed the Letters of Eusebius. He was the author of Around the World; and Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or Memoirs of Reverend William Goodell. He died April 7, 1891, in New York.
Prime, Frederick
geologist, educator, was born March 1, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he was elected professor of mining and metallurgy at Lafayette, and in 1874 he became assistant geologist on the geological survey of Pennsylvania, both of which places he filled until 1879. At the world's fair of 1876 he was judge of the group on mining and metallurgy, filling the office of secretary to the board.
Prime, Frederick Edward
soldier, was born Sept. 24, 1829, in Italy.
He was promoted major in 1863, brevetted lieutenant-colonel the following month for meritorious services before Vicksburg, and colonel and brigadier-general in 1865 for gallant conduct throughout the war.
Prime, Nathaniel Scudder
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1785, in Huntington, L. I. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, N. Y., and the author of Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism; and History of Long Island. He died March 27, 1856, in Mamaroneck, N. Y.
Prime, Samuel Irenæus
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Nov. 4, 1812, in Ballston, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York Observer for forty-five years.
He was the author of Fifteen Years of Prayer; Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New York; Annals of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse; Prayer and Its Answer; Walking with God; Travels in Europe and the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the Kremlin; and Under the Trees. died July 18, 1885, in Manchester, Vt.
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Prime, William Cowper
journalist, educator, author, was born Oct. 31, 1825, in Cambridge, N. Y. He is a lawyer and journalist, and professor of the history of art at Princeton college from 1884. He is the author of Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life in the Holy Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins, Medals and Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads; and Among the Northern Hills.
Prince, Charles H
soldier, public official, congressman, was born May 9, 1837, in Buckfield, Maine. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Prince, George W
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 4, 1854, in Tazewell county, Ill. He was elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly of Illinois in 1888, and was re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress at a special election held in 1895, to fill a vacancy, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Prince, Mrs. Helen Choate
(PRATT), author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She is a novelist now living in France, and the author of The Story of Christine Rochefort; and A Transatlantic Chatelaine.
Prince, Henry
soldier, was born June 19, 1811, in Eastport, Maine. In the civil war he took part in the northern Virginia campaign, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
Prince, L. Bradford
lawyer, jurist, senator, governor, author, was born July 3, 1840, in Flushing, N. Y. In 1871 he was elected to the New York assembly from Queens county; in 1875 was a member of the state senate; in 1879 was elected chief justice of New Mexico; and in 1889 was elected governor. He is the author of American Nationality; General Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; and The American Church and Its Name.
Prince, Nathan
missionary, author, was born Nov. 30, 1698, in Sandwich, Mass. He took orders in the Church of England, and was sent as a missionary to the Mosquito Indians in Central America. He published an Essay to Solve the Difficulties Attending the Several Accounts Given of the Resurrection; and an Account of the Constitution and Government of Harvard College from 1636 to 1742. He died July 25, 1748, in Honduras.
Prince, Oliver Hillhouse
lawyer, congressman, author, was born about 1787 in Connecticut. He published a Digest of the Laws of Georgia. He was a senator in congress from Georgia during the years 1828 and 1829. He died Oct. 9, 1837, at sea.
Prince, Thomas
governor, was born in 1601, in England. He came to America on the Mayflower; and during 1634-38 was governor of Plymouth Colony, and also during 1657-73. He died March 29, 1673, in Plymouth, Mass.
Prince, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born May 15, 1687, in Sandwich, Mass.
He was a congregational minister, pastor of the Old South church in Boston, 1718- 58, and one of the most fair-minded, accurate historical writers that America has had. His library now forms a separate collection in the Boston public library.
He is the author of Earthquakes of New England (1755); and Chronological History of New England. He died Oct. 22, 1758, in Boston, Mass.
Prince, Thomas
editor, was born Feb. 27, 1722, in Boston, Mass. He edited the earliest American periodical, which was entitled Christian History, and contained accounts of the revival and propagation of religion in Great Britain and America for 1743. He died Sept. 30, 1748, in Boston, Mass.
Prince, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1823 to 1824. He died Sept. 8, 1824, in Princeton, Ind.
Prince, William
horticulturist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1766, in Flushing, L. I. He was a horticulturist of Flushing, L. I., whose Treatise on Horticulture (1826) was the first comprehensive work on the subject published in the United States. He died April 9, 1842, in Flushing, N. Y.
Prince, William Robert
horticulturist, author, was born Nov. 6, 1795, in Flushing, L. I. He was a horticulturist of Flushing, and the author of History of the Vine (with W. Prince); Pomological Manual; and Manual of Roses. He died March 28, 1869, in Flushing, N. Y.
Prindle, Elizur H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 6, 1829, in Newton, Conn. He was district attorney of Chenango county, N. Y., in 1860-62, and was a member of the state assembly in 1863. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortysecond congress as a republican.
Pringle, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1807, in Richfield, N. Y. He moved to Batavia, N.
Y., in 1830, and attained success as an able lawyer. He held the office of judge in the court of common pleas, and was a member of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. He served in the assembly in 1862, and in 1863 was appointed by President Lincoln a judge under a treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade. He died June 7, 1887.
Pringrey, Darius Harlan
lawyer, author, was born April 23, 1841, in Andover, N. Y. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar, and the following year began the practice of law at Bloomington, Ill.
He is the author of two legal works:
Chattel Mortgages; and Mortgages of Real Property, in two volumes.
PRITCHARD, of JETER CONNELLY, journalist, state legislator, United States senator, was born July 12, 1857, in Jonesboro, Tenn. He was joint editor and owner of the Roan Mountain Republican until 1887, when he removed to Marshall, N. C.
He was elected to the legislature in 1884, 1886, and 1890; was the republican candidate for lieutenant-governor in 1888 and was the republican caucus in 1887. In 1894 he became prominent in the cooperation movement in North Carolina, and the success of that movement resulted in his election to the United States senate to fill a vacancy. He was re-elected in 1897 for term expiring March 3, 1903.
Proctor, Edna Dean
littérateur, author, was born Oct. 10, 1838, in Henniker, N. H. She is a writer formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., now of South Framingham, Mass. She is the author of Poems; A Russian Journey; and The Song of the Ancient People.
Proctor, Lucien Brock
author, was born March 6, 1826, in Hanover, N. H.
He is a legal writer of Albany, and the author of The Bench and the Bar of the State of New York; Lives of the State Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; Lawyer and Client; Bench and Bar of King's County; and Legal History of Albany and Schenectady Counties.
Proctor, Redfield
soldier, state senator, governor, United States senator, was born June 1, 1831, in Cavendish, Vt.
He served as lieutenant and quartermaster of the third regiment of Vermont volunteers, and was major of the fifth and colonel of the fifteenth Vermont regiments. He was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1867, 1868, and 1888; was member of the ご a state senate and president pro tempore of that body in 1874 and 1875; and was lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878 and governor from 1878 to 1880. He was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1884 and 1888, and was appointed secretary of war by President Harrison in 1889. In 1891 he resigned from the cabinet to accept the appointment as United States senator, and was elected by the Vermont legislature to fill both the unexpired and the full terms.
His term of service will expire in 1899.
During 1869-89 he was actively engaged in the marble business; organized and was president of the Vermont Marble company, which became the largest producer and manufacturer of marble in the world.