Peters, Moses A
clergyman, educator, was born June 8, 1851, near Slatington, Pa. After receiving a liberal education he taught in the public schools. In 1870 he was graduated from the Classical Preparatory course, Kingston, Pa.; and four years later was graduated from Ursinus college. He then entered the Yale Divinity school, graduating therefrom in 1877. During 1877- 80 he served as pastor of St. John's Reformed church of Hamburg, Pa.; was a delegate to the Robert Raikes' centenary, held in London in 1880; and served as professor of natural science and languages in Galesville university, Wis., during 1881-87. He then studied abroad in Edinburgh and Berlin universities. During 1888-93 he was professor of chemistry and natural history in Ursinus college; and since 1889 has occupied the chair of New Testament literature and exegesis. He has also taught the history of philosophy in the same institution. He has translated into English Rev. Otto Thelemann's Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism.
PETERS, MRS. PHILLIS [WHEAT- LEY], author, poet, was born in 1754 in Senegal. She was a verse writer of African birth brought to Boston in childhood as a slave. Poems on Various Occasions, Religious and Moral, appeared in London in 1772, and won a fleeting popularity there, the author being regarded as a prodigy. She died in 1784.