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Perce, Legrand W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 19, 1836, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was appointed captain of the United States volunteers in 1863, and brevetted colonel in 1865. He settled in Mississippi; and was elected to the forty-first congress, and re-elected to the forty-second congress as a republican.
Percival, Chester Smith
educator, clergyman, poet, was born March 12, 1822, in Vernon, N. Y. In 1864 he accepted a call to become rector of Grace church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the author of a work entitled Hours of Musing; and At the Grave of James G. Percival.
Percival, James Gates
geologist, poet, was born Sept. 15, 1795, in Lexington, Conn. He was a poet once popular, but now wholly neglected. He was the author of Seneca Lake and The Coral Grove, which are still found lingering anthologies; Prometheus; Clio; Dream of a Day and Poems. He was a geologist. of some reputation, and published Geological Surveys of Connecticut and Wisconsin. He died May 2, 1856, in Hazel Green, Wis.
Percy, George
soldier, governor, author, was born Sept. 4, 1586, in England. In 1610 he became governor of Virginia.
He published Observations Gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantations of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English; also included in Samuel Purchas's. Filgrimes, 1685-90. He died in March, 1632, in Lyon House, England.
Perea, Francisco
congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1831, in Bernalillo, N.
M. In 1863 he was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the thirty-eighth congress.
Perham, Sidney
agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 27, 1819, in Woodstock, Maine. In 1855 he was a member of the Maine legislature, and officiated as speaker. In 1856 he was a presidential elector. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. In 1875 he was elected secretary of the state of Maine.
Perkins, Bishop
congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He settled in New York; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Perkins, Charles Edgar
lawyer, jurist, was born July 22, 1821, in Hartland, Vt. In 1856 he settled in Galesville, Wis.; has been registrar of deeds for Trempealeau county, Wis., for six years; was clerk of the court for four years; county judge for seven years; county clerk for two years; has been town clerk of Galesville, Wis., and town clerk of Arcadia, Wis.; and justice of the peace in Galesville and Arcadia for fourteen years.
Perkins, Charles Elliott
railroad president, was born Nov. 24, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1881 he has been president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad; and of the Burlington and Missouri River railroad in Nebraska. ma- PERKINS, CHARLES HENRY, chinist, inventor, was born Aug. 27, 1830, in Taunton, Mass. In 1867 he discovered an entirely new process for making horseshoes, and commenced their manufacture under the name of the Rhode Island Horseshoe company, Providence, R. I.
Perkins, Edwin Hazen
musician, composer, was born Sept. 28, 1840, in Stockbridge, Mass. He has been a successful teacher of singing in Vermont and Massachusetts, and is the author of several compositions.
Perkins, Elias
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 5, 1767, in Norwich, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1801 to 1803. He was subsequently chosen judge of the court for the county of New London, which office he held until he became ineligible from his advanced years. He was mayor of the city of New London from 1829 to 1832. He died Sept. 27, 1845, in New London, Conn.