Purviance, Samuel D – Quackenbos, John Duncan
Purviance, Samuel D
congressman. He was a member of congress from North Carolina, from 1803 to 1805.
Purvis, Robert
abolitionist, was born Aug. 4, 1810, in Charleston, S. C. In 1833 he was a member of the Philadelphia convention, which formed the American Anti-Slavery society; and was its vicepresident for many years. His house was a well-known station on the underground railroad, and his carriages were always at the service of fugitive slaves.
Puryear, Richard C
soldier, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1801, in Mecklenburg, Va. He moved to North Carolina, and was elected a representative in the legislature of that state. In 1840 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1844, 1846, and 1852 was again elected to the lower house of the legislature. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1853 to 1857. He took part in the rebellion of 1861 as a member of the confederate congress.
Pusey, Charles J
railroad president, was born April 14, 1837, in Chester county, Pa. In 1892 he became president of the St. Lawrence Railway company, and in 1893 also became president of the Brockville and New York Bridge company of Canada.
Pusey, William H. M
banker, congressman, was born July 29, 1826, in Washington county, Pa. He is a private banker, was a member of the Iowa state senate during 1858-62, and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Putman, George I
journalist, author, was born April 24, 1860, in Napanock, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Advocate of Claremont, N. H., and the author of two army novels entitled In Blue Uniform; and On the Offensive.
Putnam, Albigence Waldo
lawyer, author, was born March 11, 1799, in Marietta, Ohio. He was a lawyer of Nashville, and the author of History of Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of General James Robertson; and Life of General John Sevier. He died Jan. 20, 1869, in Nashville, Tenn.
Putnam, Douglas
railroad president, was born Aug. 21, 1838, in Ohio. Since 1890 he has been president of the Ashland Coal and Iron railway.
Putnam, Frederic Ward
curator, was born April 16, 1839, in Salem, Mass., a direct descendant of John Putnam, one of the earliest settlers of Salem. He has for many years been professor of archæology and ethnology in the Harvard university; curator of the Peabody museum, and curator of anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. During the past thirty-three years he has been engaged in exploration and in directing the explorations of his students and assistants, in North, Central and South America. He is the author of over three hundred scientific papers. He received the degree of master of arts from Williams college, and the degree of doctor of science from the university of Pennsylvania.
Putnam, George F
banker, legislator, was born Nov. 6, 1841, in Croydon, N. H. In 1867, 1870-72 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and in 1892 he became president of the American National bank of Kansas City.
Putnam, George Haven
soldier, journalist, author, was born April 2, 1844, in London, England. He served as a soldier during the civil war, and was mustered out as brevet-major in 1865. He is a member of the firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons, the great book publishers of New York city. He is the author of Authors and Publishers; International Copyright; and Authors and Their Public in Ancient Times.
Putnam, George Palmer
journalist, author, was born Feb. 7, 1814, in Brunswick, Maine. He was a well-known publisher of New York city, the founder of the present publishing house of G. P.
Putnam's Sons. He was the author of The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; and The World's Progress. He died Dec. 20, 1872, in New York city.
Putnam, Gideon
founder, was born in 1764, in Sutton, Mass. He moved to Saratoga; and his first child was the first white child born in that city. In 1802 he built and conducted the first hotel, which is now the Grand Union hotel. He became the founder of Saratoga Springs, where he died Dec. 1, 1812.
Putnam, Harvey
lawyer, state legislator, congressman. He was a leading member of the bar of Genesee county, N.
Y.; was several times a member of the New York legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851. He died Sept. 21, 1855, in Attica, N. Y.
Putnam, Holden Adelmore
clergyman, was born Jan. 24, 1859, in Hinckley, Ohio. He received his education in the Hillsdale college and the Union Theological seminary. He has been pastor of the First Congregational churches of Tipton, Ypsilanti, Sault Ste. Marie, and since 1893 has filled a pastorate in Hudson, Mich.
Putnam, Israel
soldier, was born Jan. 7, 1718, in Salem, Mass. He distinguished himself during the French and Indian war by his reckless courage, and was particularly noted for his bravery at the battle of Bunker Hill. He died May 19, 1790, in Brooklyn, Conn.
Putnam, James
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1725 in Danvers, Mass. On the organization of the government of the province of New Brunswick in 1783, he was appointed a member of the royal council and a judge of the superior court.
He died Oct. 23, 1789, in New Brunswick, Maine.
Putnam, James Osborne
lawyer, state senator, congressman, author, was born July 4, 1818, in Attica, N. Y. He represented the Buffalo district in the state senate of New York in 1854 and 1855.
He was a presidential elector-at-large in 1860, and was United States consul at Havre, France, from 1861-66. He was United States minister to Belgium from 1860 to July, 1862, and was the United States delegate to the international property congress held in Paris, France, in 1880. He wrote a volume of his Addresses and Miscellanies, which was published in 1880.
Putnam, Mrs. Katharine Hunt
(PALMER), author, was born March 1, 1792, in Framingham, Mass. She was a Boston writer, and the author of Scripture Text Book; and The Old Testament Unveiled. She died Jan. 8, 1869, in New York city.
Putnam, Mrs. Mary
(LOWELL), author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in Boston, Mass. She is a life-long resident of Boston, and the author of Fifteen Days; History of the Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of Errors; and Tragedy of Success.
Putnam, Rufus
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 9, 1738, in Sutton, Mass. In 1783 he was made brigadiergeneral; was aid to General Lincoln during Shay's rebellion; and in 1778 was superintendent of the Ohio company, and founded Marietta, Ohio. In 1789 he was judge of the supreme court of northwest territory; in 1792 was brigadier-general of Wayne's army; and in 1793, as United States commissioner, concluded an important treaty with eight tribes of Indians at Vincennes, Ind. From 1793 to 1803 he was United States surveyor-general, and was a member of the constitutional convention of Ohio. He died May 1, 1824, in Marietta, Ohio.
Putnam, Ruth
author. She is the author of Life of William the Silent.
Putnam, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 13, 1768, in Danvers, Mass. He soon attained high rank at the Essex county bar, and represented that county in the state senate in 1808-14, and in the legislature in 1812.
From 1814 till 1842 he was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died July 3, 1853, in Somerville, Mass.
Putnam, Mrs. Sarah a. Brock
author, was born in 1845 in Madison Court House, Va. She is a writer of New York city, and the author of Richmond During the War; The Southern Amaranth; Kenneth, My King; and Myra, a novel.
Putney, Frank H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1841 in Rockford, Ill.
During the civil war he was a member of the twelfth Wisconsin infantry. He has served a term as county judge of Waukesha county, and as postmaster of Waukesha.
Pyle, Howard
artist, author, was born March 5, 1853, in Wilmington, Del.
He is an artist and littérateur of Wilmington, Del., and the author of The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within the Capes, a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; and Jack Ballister's Fortunes.
Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1823 in Connecticut. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Trinity college in 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there, and the author of Bishop Butler: a Religious Philosopher for All Time; and Introduction to Chemical Physics. was
Pynchon, William
author, was born in 1590 in England. He was a noted colonist of New England who founded the town of Springfield, Mass., in 1636. In 1652 he returned to England.
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, first published in 1650, excited a storm of controversy, and was publicly burned on Boston Common as an heretical book.
It was reprinted in 1655 as The Meritorious Price of Man's Redemption, or Christ's Satisfaction Discussed and Explained, with a rejoinder to Rev. John Norton's Answer; The Jewish Synagogue; How the First Sabbath was Ordained; and The Covenant of Nature made with Adam. He died in 1662.
Quackenbos, George Payn
educator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in New York city. He was an educator of New York city, and the author of School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy; a series of English grammars; and An Advanced Course of Rhetoric. He died July 24, 1881, in Merrimack county, N. Y.
Quackenbos, John Duncan
educator, author, was born April 22, 1848, in New York city. He was an adjunct professor of English literature at Columbia college from 1884, and the author of Illustrated History of the World; History of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; and Practical Rhetoric.