Pilsbury, Timothy
state senator, congressman, was born April 12, 1789, in Newbury, Mass. He settled in Maine; was appointed a member of the executive council; and also served in the state legislature. He went from Maine to Ohio, thence to Louisiana, and finally to Texas.
He served a number of years in the senate and house of representatives of Texas; and when that republic came into the union he was elected a representative in congress from 1846 to 1849. He died Nov. 23, 1858, near Danville, Texas.
PINCHBACK, PINCKNEY BENTON STEWART, journalist, state senator, was born May 10, 1827, in Macon, Ga. He is of African descent; was a member of the constitutional convention of 1867; state senator in 1868; and in 1870 established the New Orleans Louisianian.