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Payson, Phillips

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1736, in Walpole, Mass. From 1757 until his death he was pastor of the congregational church in Chelsea, Mass. He published tracts on astronomy and natural philosophy in the Transactions of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and several sermons, the best known of which is that on the Battle of Lexington; and on the Death of Washington. He died Jan. 11, 1801, in Chelsea, Mass.

Payson, Seth

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 29, 1758, in Walpole, Mass.

From 1782 until his death he was pastor of the congregational church in Rindge, N. H. He published numerous sermons, and a work against secret societies, entitled Proofs of the Existence and Dangerous Tendencies of Modern Illuminism. He died Feb. 26, 1820, in Rindge, N. H.

Peabody, Ephraim

clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1807, in Wilton, N. H. He was pastor of King's chapel of Boston in 1846-56; originator of Boston Provident society; and was the author of sermons and Christian Days and Thoughts. He died Nov. 28, 1856, in Boston, Mass.

Peacock, Dred

educator, college president, was born April 12, 1864, in Stantonsburg, N. C. In 1887 he graduated as valedictorian from Trinity college, North Carolina, receiving the degrees of A.

B. and A. M. In 1887-88 he was principal of the Lexington Female seminary; was. professor of Latin and science in the Greensboro Female college in 1888-94, and since 1894 has been president of that institution.

Peacock, Thomas Brower

poet, was born April 16, 1852, in Cambridge, Ohio. For ten years he was associate editor of the Kansas Democrat of Topeka. He is the author of The Vendetta and Other Poems; The Rhyme of the Border War; Poems of the Plains and Songs of the Solitudes, and other works. During the World's Columbian exposition he read his famous Columbian Ode before the public press congress, which was highly praised. As a lecturer he has attained phenomenal success.

Peakes, Emily W

educator, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1847, in Harmony, Maine.

She is a teacher of literature in the high school of Terre Haute, Ind., and is the author of a number of poems.

Peale, Anna Claypoole

artist, was born March 6, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pa. She devoted herself at first to stilllife subjects, but afterward followed miniature-painting. She executed miniatures of Gen. Lallemand, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Com. William Bainbridge. She died Dec. 25, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Peale, Charles Wilson

artist, inventor, author, was born April 16, 1741, in Chestertown, Md. He was an artist, inventor, and miscellaneous writer of Philadelphia, among whose works are, On Building Wooden Bridges; Domestic Happiness; and Economy in Fuel. He died Feb. 22, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Peale, James

soldier, artist, was born in 1749, in Annapolis, Md. He turned his attention principally to portrait-painting, executing many miniatures and portraits in oil, including a full-length portrait of Washington, which has been engraved. One of his portraits of Washington is in the New York Historical society; the other, painted in 1795, in Independence hall, Philadelphia. He died May 24, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Peale, James

artist, was born March 6, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1813 he exhibited, at the Columbia society of Artists, a view of High street bridge. His other works include a painting of an engagement between the privateer schooner Cornet, of Baltimore, and a Portuguese sloop-of-war; View of Germantown; View of Water-Gap and Breaking Away of a Storm; and Fairmount Water-Works. He died Oct. 27, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa.