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Pierson, Delavan L – Pilcher, Elijah Homes
Pierson, Delavan L
poet. He is a writer of Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of a number of poems.
Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1817, in Bergen, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman in Kentucky, and the author of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello; and In the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political and Religious Life in the Southwest.
Pierson, Isaac
physician, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1770, in New Jersey. He practiced medicine for forty years and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1827 to 1831. He died Sept. 22, 1833, in New Jersey.
Pierson, Jeremiah H
congressman, was born in Essex county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823.
Pierson, Job
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1835. He died April 9, 1860.
Pigott, James P
lawyer, congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn. He is a noted lawyer of New Haven; was chairman of the state delegation to the democratic national convention in 1888, and was elected to the fifty-third congress.
Pike, Albert
lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and journalist of Little Rock, Memphis, and Washington successively, who served as an officer in the confederate army. He was the author of Hymns to the Gods; Prose Sketches and Poems; Nugæ, a collection of Poems; and Arkansas Supreme Court Reports, 1840-45. He died April 2, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Pike, Frederick Augustus
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1817, in Calais, Maine. was a member of the Maine legislature, serving one term as speaker of the house of representatives. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died Dec. 2, 1886, in Calais, Maine.
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Pike, James
clergyman, congressman, was born in November, 1818, in Salisbury, Mass. He was a minister in the methodist episcopal church from 1841 to 1854; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Pike, James Shepard
journalist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Calais, Maine. He was a journalist of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, in 1861-66, and the author of A Prostrate State; The Restoration of the Currency; The Financial Crisis; Horace Greeley in 1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; The New Puritan; and New England Two Hundred Years Ago. He died Nov. 24, 1882, in Calais, Maine.
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
soldier, traveler, was born Jan. 5, 1779, in Lamberton, N. J. He was a surveyor of the newly acquired territory of Louisiana in 1805, and discovered that lofty peak of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado which bears his name. He died April 27, 1813.
Pilcher, Elijah Homes
clergyman, author, was born June 2, 1810, in Athens, Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman of Michigan who wrote a History of Protestantism in Michigan. He died April 7, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y.