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Patton, Thomas Duncan – Paulding, William

Patton, Thomas Duncan

journalist, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1865, in Ripley, Miss. For many years he was the editor of the Arkansian, and is now a prominent lawyer of Cotton Plant, Ark. In 1895 and in 1897 he served as a member of the Arkansas state legislature.

Patton, William

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, founder of the Union Theological seminary; and the author of The Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients; The Judgment of Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture; Jesus of Nazareth; and Bible Principles and Bible Characters. He died Sept. 9, 1879, in New Haven, Conn.

Patton, William Weston

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1821, in New York city. He was a congregational clergyman in New York city, and president of Howard university from 1877. He was the author of Spiritual Victory; Prayer and Its Remarkable Answers; The Young Man's Friend; Conscience and Law; and Slavery and Infidelity. He died Dec. 31, 1889, in Westfield, N. J.

Paul, Augustus Chouteau

soldier, was born April 16, 1842, in Albany, N. Y. He was brevetted major for gallantry in the Wilderness, and lieutenantcolonel for meritorious conduct at Spottsylvania court house.

Paul, Henry Martyn

astronomer, educator, was born June 25, 1851, in Hyde Park, Mass. During 1880-83 he was professor of astronomy in the university of Tokio, Japan, after which he returned to his post in Washington. He is the author of astronomical monographs that have been published as appendices to the annual volumes of the Observations of the United States naval observatory.

Paul, Howard

actor, author, was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He was the author of a serial entitled Dashes of American Humor, which attained popularity both in England and the United States. He next published a successful drama entitled A Mob Cap. His other principal works are: The Young Chemist; Pastimes of Youth; and The Book of American Songs, with notes biographical and critical.

Paul, John

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 30, 1839, in Rockingham county, Va. He was elected state senator in 1877, and re-elected in 1879; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses. In 1883 he was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Virginia.

Paulding, Hiram

naval officer, was born Dec. 11, 1797, in New York city. In 1811 he entered the navy as a midshipman; was promoted to commander in 1837; in 1844 became captain; and was promoted rear-admiral on the retired list in 1862. He died Oct. 20, 1878, in Huntington, N. Y.

Paulding, John

patriot, was born in 1758 in New York city. He was one of the three captors of André, and received from congress a silver medal and an annuity of two hundred dollars. In 1827 a marble monument was erected to his memory in the churchyard near Peekskill, by the corporation of New York. He died Feb. 18, 1818, in Staatsburg, N. Y.

Paulding, Tattnall

soldier, business man, was born July 5, 1840, in Huntington, N. Y. During the war he served in the sixth regiment United States cavalry as captain, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. He is president of the Delaware Insurance company of Philadelphia, Pa., and prominent in the public and business affairs of that city.

Paulding, William

JR., lawyer, congressman, was born in 1769 in Tarrytown, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813.

He died Feb. 11, 1854, in Tarrytown, N. Y.