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Peirce, Charles Henry

physician, author, was born Jan. 28, 1814, in Salem, Mass. In 1850 he received the appointment of examiner of medicines for the port of Boston. He was the translator of Dr. Julius A. Stockhardt's Principles of Chemistry. He also published Examination of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals as to their Purity. He died June 16, 1855, in Cambridge, Mass.

Peirce, Charles Sanders

physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a physician and lecturer on logic; and the author of Studies in Logic.

Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver

soldier, author, was born April 5, 1822, in Freetown, Mass. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of The Peirce Family of the Old Colony; Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy; and Contributions, Biographical.

Peirce, James Mills

educator, author, was born May 1, 1834, in Cambridge, Mass. He is an educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard university from 1867; and the author of Text-Book of Analytical Geometry; and Elements of Logarithms.

Peirce, Joseph Dexter

farmer, legislator, was born Dec. 5, 1857, in Newburgh, N. Y. He is a successful farmer; and has served as a member of the lower house of the North Dakota legislature.

Peirce, Robert B. F

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1843, in Laurel, Ind. He graduated in a classical course from the Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. He served during the war as a lieutenant in the one hundred and thirty-fifth regiment of the Indiana volunteer infantry. He is a noted lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind.; has been state's attorney; and served as a member of the forty-seventh congress as a republican.

Peirce, Thomas

poet, was born Aug. 4, 1786, in Chester county, Pa. He wrote numerous prize poems, the chief of which was Muse of Hesperia; and contributed largely to literary journals. His last published poem, Knowledge is Power, appeared in 1827. He died in 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Peirce, William Foster

clergyman, college president, was born Feb. 3, 1868, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was prepared for college at the Springfield High school; graduating in 1888 from Amherst college; then he attended. the Cornell university for one year for the study of philosophy and economics.

He has filled professorships in the Ohio university, university of Colorado, and Kenyon college of Gambier, Ohio, of which latter institution he has been president since 1896.

Pelham, Charles

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 12, 1835, in Person county, N. C. He entered the confederate service in 1862; was elected judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1868; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.

Pelham, Peter

artist, was born in England. He was the first engraver and earliest known artist in New England, and came from London to Boston at the close of the first quarter of the eighteenth century. His earliest known work here is a portrait of Cotton Mather, dated 1727. He died in December, 1751, in Boston, Mass.

Pelton, Guy R

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 3, 1825, in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1851 he opened a law office in New York city; and in 1854 was. elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth congress.

Pelton, John Cotter

educator, poet. He is known as the father of the San Francisco schools. Since 1849 he has been engaged as an educator in California, and was San Francisco's first superintendent of schools. He is the author of a volume of poems; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature. His poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and several other standard collections.

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