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Pershing, Daniel H

railroad president, was born May 25, 1831, in Fayette county, Pa. Since 1881 he has been president of the Greenlick railway at Stauffer, Pa.

Persons, Henry

soldier, agriculturist, congressman, was born in 1834 in Monroe county, Ga. He devoted his attention to agriculture; served in the confederate army as captain; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Peter, Robert

chemist, author, was born Jan. 21, 1805, in England. In 1832 he delivered a course of chemical lectures at the Eclectic institute of Lexington, Conn., where he filled the chair of chemistry. During the civil war he was a surgeon in charge of the United States general hospitals in Lexington. He is the author of A Digest of the Report of the Geological Surveys of Arkansas; and other geological works.

Peter, Sarah

philanthropist, was born May 16, 1800, in Valley Mills, Ohio.

She founded the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia, which was opened in 1850, and bestowed her wealth on many charitable institutions. She established several sisterhoods in Cincinnati, and founded convents in Philadelphia. She died Feb. 6, 1877, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Peterkin, George William

bishop of West Virginia, was born March 21, 1841, in Washington county, Md. He was elected first bishop of West Virginia, and was consecrated in St. Matthew's church, Wheeling, Va., on May 30, 1878. The bishop has published several occasional sermons and addresses.

Peters, Alice E. Heckler

educator, poet, was born March 30, 1845, in Dayton, Ohio. For many years she taught private classes; has been a regular newspaper contributor; and a poet of rare genius. She has been the secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society; treasurer of the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference Home Missionary society; secretary of the Woman's Relief corps; and an indefatigable worker in religious, reform and social work.

Peters, Bernard

journalist, was born in October, 1827, in Germany. In 1868 he bought a half interest in the Brooklyn Times; six years later came in control of the paper.

PETERS, CHRISTIAN HENRY FRED- ERICK, astronomer, author, was born Sept. 19, 1813. He was a German astronomer, director of the observatory at Hamilton college in 1858-90, and discovered over forty asteroids. He was the author of Celestial Charts. He died in 1890.

Peters, Edward Dyer

metallurgist, author, was born June 1, 1849, in Dorchester, Mass. He is a metallurgist who has published Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting.

PETERS, GEORGE NATHANIEL HEN- RY, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 1825, in New Berlin, Pa. He is a lutheran minister of Ohio; and the author of The Theocratic Kingdom of Christ.

Peters, Hugh

poet, was born Jan. 30, 1807, in Hebron, Conn. He wrote a series of humorous Yankee lyrics, which were printed in the New England Weekly Review. His farewell to Connecticut, written on Long Island sound, and entitled My Native Land, is considered his best poem. He died June 9, 1831, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Peters, John A

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1822, in Ellsworth, Maine. In 1862 and 1863 he was elected to the senate of Maine; in 1864 was elected to the house of representatives; and at the close of 1864 and also in 1865 and 1866 was elected by the legislature attorney-general of the state. He was elected a representative from Maine to the fortieth congress; was re-elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a republican.

Peters, John Charles

physician, author, was born July 6, 1819, in New York city. He was a physician of New York city of note as a bacteriologist; and the author of Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System; Diseases of Women; Diseases of the Eye; Notes on Asiatic Cholera; and A New Materia Medica. He died in 1893.