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Peet, Dudley

physician, author, was born July 9, 1830, in Hartford, Conn.

He studied and practiced medicine in New York, and became an instructor in the New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes.

He was the author of a Manual of Inorganic Chemistry for Students, which was revised and enlarged by Isaac L. Peet in 1868. He died April 18, 1862, in New York city.

Peet, Harvey Prindle

educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1794, in Bethlehem, Conn. He was a noted educator of deaf-mutes in New York city; and the author of Course of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb; Legal Rights of the Deaf and Dumb; and History of the United States. He died Jan. 1, 1873, in New York city.

Peet, Stephen

missionary, author, was born in 1795, in Sandgate, Vt. In 1837 he became minister of Green Bay, Wis., and assisted in founding Beloit college and thirty churches. He then went to Milwaukee, and subsequently took charge of an institute in Batavia, Ill. He was the author of a History of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches and Ministers of Wisconsin. He died March 21, 1855, in Chicago, Ill.

Peet, Stephen Denison

clergyman, anthropologist, author, was born Dec. 2, 1830, in Euclid, Ohio. He is a congregational minister, eminent as an anthropologist; and the author of The Ashtabula Disaster; History of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture in America; History of Early Missions in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primitive Symbolisms; and The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin.

Peffley, David Franklin

journalist, poet, was born May 5, 1854, in Bainbridge, Ind. For several years he taught school, then took up newspaper work. In 1880 he moved to Kansas, and has edited and published newspapers in that state, and in New Mexico. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Songs of Sentiment; and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Pegram, John

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1818 to 1819 to fill a vacancy.

Pegram, William Johnson

soldier, was born in 1841, in Petersburg, Va.

He served with distinction in the confederate army; attained the rank of brigadier-general, and was killed in battle April 2, 1865, in Petersburg, Va.

Peirce, Benjamin

merchant, author, was born Sept. 30, 1778, in Salem, Mass. He was a merchant of Salem, Mass., subsequently librarian of Harvard university; and published a History of Harvard University from 1636 to the American Revolution. He died July 28, 1831, in Cambridge, Mass.

Peirce, Benjamin

mathematician, educator, author, was born April 4, 1809, in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent mathematician, and professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard university in 1833-67. He was the author of Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise Curves, Functions, and Forces; and Ideality in the Physical Sciences. He died Oct. 6, 1880, in Cambridge, Mass. on Sound;

Peirce, Benjamin Osgood

educator, author, was born Feb. 11, 1854, in Beverly, Mass. He is a professor of physics at Harvard university from 1884; and author of Theory of the Newtonian Potential Functions.

Peirce, Bradford Kinney

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 3, 1819, in Royalton, Vt. He was editor of Zion's Herald in 1872-88. He was the author of Bible Scholar's Manual; The Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The Word of God Opened; A Half Century with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an Inventor; Audubon's Adventures; Stories from Life which the Chaplain Told; The Chaplain with the Children; The Young Shetlander and His Home; and Hymns of the Higher Life. He died in 1889.