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Pangborn, Frederic W – Park, Roswell

Pangborn, Frederic W

journalist, poet, was born March 7, 1855, in St. Albans, Vt. For twenty years he has been connected with the Evening Journal of Jersey City, N. J., and is now its managing editor. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, many of which have appeared in standard collections.

Paquin, Paul

physician, author, was born in 1860 in Canada. He is the author of The Supreme Passions of Man; The Microscopical Diagnosis of Human Nature; and The Basis of Character and the Diseases of Personality.

Paret, Thomas Dunkin

inventor, was born Dec. 20, 1837, in New York city.

He has taken a leading part in the development and extension of grinding processes, and has been president of the Tanite company at Stroudsburg, Pa., which manufactures emery-wheels, since its organization in 1867. He has contributed many technical articles to scientific periodicals.

Paret, William

bishop of Maryland, was born Sept. 23, 1826, in New York city. He is the author of St. Peter and the Primacy of the Roman See; Our Freedom and Our Catholic Heritage; The Method and Work of Lent, and other works.

Parish, Aaron Smith

educator, was born Dec. 28, 1841, in Farmer, N. Y.

For over twenty years he has been proprietor of the Business college of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Parish, Elijah

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 7, 1762, in Lebanon, Conn.

He was a congregational minister, pastor at Byfield, Mass., in 1787-1825. He was co-author with Jedediah Morse of several geographical works, and wrote a New System of Modern Geography. died Oct. 15, 1825, in Byfield, Mass.

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Park, Benjamin

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1777, in New Jersey. From 1805 to 1808 he was a delegate in congress from Indiana territory; and was soon after appointed judge of the district court, which office he held until his death. He died July 12, 1835, in Salem, Ind.

Park, Edwards Amasa

educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1808, in Providence, R. I. He is a congregational clergyman in Andover, Mass., professor in the Theological seminary there in 1835-81; and the author of Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement; Discourses on Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious Character; and Lives of S. Hopkins, and others.

Park, I. V

journalist, was born Dec. 7, 1848, in Franklin county, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the district schools, and subsequently attended the Wesleyan university of Bloomington, Ill. He has been a general writer for the press, and correspondent of leading metropolitan journals; and is now the editor and owner of The Daily and Weekly Times of Joliet, Ill.

Park, James

iron-master, was born Jan. 11, 1820, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1863 he was the first to introduce the Siemens gas-furnace into this country. He had a high reputation as a progressive leader among iron-masters, and was active in the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He died April 21, 1883, in Allegheny, Pa.

Park, John

physician, journalist, was born Jan. 7, 1775, in Windham, N. H.

In 1803 he established at Newburyport, Mass., the New England Repertory, a semi-weekly federalist journal, which he afterward transferred to Boston. In 1811 he disposed of his newspaper and established at Boston a high-school for young women, which he conducted with great success for twenty years. In 1814 he published the Boston Spectator. He died March 2, 1852, in Worcester, Mass.

Park, Roswell

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 1, 1807, in Lebanon, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator, president and chancellor of Racine college in 1852-63; and the author of Sketch of the History of West Point; Jerusalem, and Other Poems; and Pantology, or Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge. He died July 16, 1869, in Chicago, Ill.