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Phenix, J. Phillips

state legislator, congressman, was born in Morristown, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1845, and was a member of the state assembly in 1848 from New York city. He was again in congress from 1849 to 1851. He died May 4, 1859, in New York.

Piatt, Donn

soldier, lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born June 29, 1819, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a lawyer and journalist of Washington, and during the civil war a federal officer. He was the author of Sunday Meditations; Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union; Poems and Plays; Life of General George H.

Thomas; and The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah. He died in 1891.

Picard, George Henry

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 3, 1850, in Baldwin, Ohio. He is a physician and novelist of New York city, and the author of A Matter of Taste; A Mission Flower; and Old Boniface.

Pick, Bernhard

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1842, in Prussia. He is a lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, prior to 1884 a presbyterian minister; and the author of Luther as a Hymnist; Historical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ according to Extra Canonical Sources; Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; and The Talmud: What It Is.

Pickard, Joseph Coffin

educator, was born in September, 1826, in Auburn.

In 1873 he became professor of the English language and literature in the Industrial university at Urbana, Ill.

Pickard, Samuel Thomas

journalist, author, was born in 1828 in Massachusetts. He is a writer who for many years edited the Portland (Maine) Transcript. He is the author of Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Pickens, Rupert T

lawyer, legislator, was born April 4, 1860, in Buncombe county, N. C. He has been mayor of Ellijay, Ga., and during 1891-96 was mayor of Lexington, N. C., in which city he is a prominent lawyer. He has served as a representative in the North Carolina state legislature, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his state.

Pickering, Charles

naturalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1805, in Susquehanna county, Pa. He was a naturalist of eminence, and the author of Races of Men and Their Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution of Animals and Men; and Chronological History of Plants.

He died March 17, 1878, in Boston, Mass.

Pickering, Edward Charles

author, was born July 19, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is the director of Harvard observatory at Cambridge, and author of Elements of Physical Manipulation.

Pickering, Henry

poet, was born Oct. 8, 1781, in Newburg, N. Y. He was a poet of New York who published Ruins of Pæstum; Athens, and Other Poems; and The Buckwheat Cake. He died Oct. 8, 1871, in Newburg, N. Y.

Pickering, John

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 22, 1737, in Newington, N. H.

He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of New Hampshire. He was a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire from 1790 to 1795, and was at one time chief justice.

He was subsequently judge of the United States district court for New Hampshire.

He died April 11, 1805, in Portsmouth.

Pickering, John

lawyer, linguist, author, was born Feb. 7, 1777, in Salem, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston and a linguist of eminence, and the author of Greek and English Lexicon; Collection of Words and Phrases Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States; and Remarks on the Indian Languages of North America. He died May 5, 1846, in Boston, Mass.