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Pemberton, Ebenezer – Pendleton, James Madison
Pemberton, Ebenezer
clergyman, author, was born in 1704, in Boston, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the opening of the revolution. He was the author of Sermons on Several Subjects; Practical Discourses; Salvation by Grace; and Occasional Sermons. He died Sept. 9, 1779, in Boston, Mass.
Pemberton, James Lee
politician, was born July 22, 1866, in Turley's Mills, Tenn. He received the rudiments of his education at the common schools, and at the department of law of the Georgetown university of Washington, D. C. He was president of the Central McKinley and Hobart club of Rutledge, Tenn.; has been justice of the peace for Grainger county; and clerk of the circuit court. He has twice declined nominations to the lower house of the general assembly.
Pemberton, Thomas
merchant, author, was born in 1728, in Boston, Mass. He wrote a journal of the revolutionary war; and his Chronology of Massachusetts, in five manuscript volumes, was made use of by Dr. Holmes. He died July 5, 1807, in Boston, Mass.
Pence, Lafe
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1857, in Columbus, Ind. He was elected to the Colorado state legislature, and after the session in 1885 located in Denver. In 1887 he was appointed county attorney for Arapahoe county; and reappointed county attorney in 1888. In 1892 he was nominated by the populists and silver democrats as candidate for congress from the first district, and was elected in November.
Pence, Wallace M
lawyer, was born March 27, 1860, in Henderson county, Ill. He received his education at the Western Normal college of Shenandoah, Iowa, graduating with the degree of B.
S.; and attended the law department of the Kansas State university of Lawrence.
He is now a prominent lawyer of Salinas City, Cal.; and contributes extensively to law literature.
Pendleton, Edmund H
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833.
PENDLETON, EDMUND MONROE, physician, author, was born March 19, 1815, in Eatonton, Ga. He was a physician who published Scientific Agriculture. He died Jan. 26, 1884, in Atlanta, Ga.
Pendleton, Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born about 1750, in Culpeper county, Va. He was appointed judge in 1776; and when the British overran the state he joined the patriot forces and fought at Eutaw. He resumed his judgeship in 1782; originated the county court act of South Carolina, and was one of three judges appointed to revise the laws of the state in 1785. He died Jan. 10, 1789, in Greenville, S. C.
Pendleton, Isaac
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 3, 1832, in Norwich, N. Y. In 1862 he was a representative of his district in the Iowa legislature; and for four years was district judge. He died July 17, 1896, in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Pendleton, James M
merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1822, in Pendleton Hill, He received thorough education; and became engaged in mercantile business and banking in Rhode Island. He was a member of the Rhode Island state senate in 1862-65; a delegate to the national republican convention of Chicago in 1868; and a presidential elector. He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses, serving on the committee on revision of laws; and various other committees.
Pendleton, James Madison
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1811, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He was a baptist clergyman of Upland, Pa.; and the author of Three Reasons Why I Am a Baptist; Church Manual; Christian Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Principles of Baptists; and Atonement of Christ. He died in 1891.