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Pettis, S. Newton – Pfeifer, William

Pettis, S. Newton

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1828 in Ashtabula county, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed a justice of the United States court for Colorado; before the close of that year he resigned, and came to Pennsylvania. He was subsequently elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy; and in 1878 he was appointed minister resident to Bolivia, remaining there until 1880.

Pettis, Spencer

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1802 in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, serving from 1829 to 1831.

He died Aug. 26, 1831, in St. Louis.

Pettit, Charles

soldier, lawyer, merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1736 near Amwell, N. J. He was in the continental congress from 1785 to 1787; and an advocate for the adoption of the federal constitution in the general convention at Harrisburg. He died Sept. 4, 1806, in Philadelphia.

Pettit, John U

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. He was appointed judge of the Upper Wabash circuit court of Indiana. He was elected to congress as a representative from that state in 1854; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.

Peyton, Bailie

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1803, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1833 to 1837. In 1849 he was appointed minister to Chili; and was subsequently elected United States district attorney for Louisiana. In 1861 he was a presidential elector for the state of Tennessee; and subsequently served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion. He died Aug. 19, 1878, in Gallatin, Tenn.

Peyton, Ephraim Geoffrey

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1802, near Elizabethtown, Ky. He settled in Gallatin, Miss.; served one term in the legislature; and was appointed a judge of the state supreme court in 1868; and was chief justice from 1870 till his retirement in 1875. He died Sept. 5, 1876, in Jackson, Miss.

Peyton, John Lewis

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 15, 1824, in Staunton, Va. He is a lawyer of Staunton, Va., who served as an officer in the confederate service. He is the author of Adventures of my Grandfather; History of Augusta County, Virginia; The American Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; and Memorials of Nature and Art.

Peyton, John Rowze

soldier, was born Oct. 19, 1754, in Stony Hill, Va. He served through the civil war, winning the sobriquet of Hero Boy of '76. He died in 1798 in Stony Hill, Va.

Peyton, Joseph H

state senator, congressman, was born in 1813 in Sumner county, Tenn. He was frequently elected to the senate of Tennessee; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845. He died Nov. 12, 1845, in Sumner county, Tenn.

PEYTON, ROBERT LUDWELL YATES, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1825 in Loudoun county, Va. In 1855 he was elected to the Missouri state senate; and in 1861 was a member of the confederate senate.

He died in 1863.

Peyton, Samuel O

physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 in Bullitt county, Ky. In 1835 he was elected to the state legislature; was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1849; and was also elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.

He died in January, 1870, in Hartford, Ky. a

Pfeifer, William

farmer, legislator, was born March 29, 1863, in Washington county, Wis. He is successful farmer of Douglas county, S.

D.; was elected justice of the peace in 1894; and in 1896 was elected a representative in the South Dakota state legislature.