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Pinkley, Virgil A – Piper, William A

Pinkley, Virgil A

orator, poet, was born Feb. 18, 1852, in Girard, Ill. He is the director of elocution and oratory in the college of Music of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of a standard work entitled Essentials of Elocution and Oratory; and a volume of poems.

Pinkney, Frederick

lawyer, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 14, 1804, at sea. He was deputy attorney-general of Maryland, and assistant editor of the Marylander, and subsequently of the Baltimore Patriot. During the civil war he published poems and songs that became popular.

He died June 13, 1873.

Pinkney, Ninian

soldier, author, was born in 1776 in Baltimore, Md. He became captain in 1807, was major of the fifth infantry, and aide to Gen. James Wilkinson in 1813, became lieutenant-colonel in 1814, and in 1820 was promoted colonel.

He was the author of a book entitled Travels in the South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc by a Route Never Before Performed. He died Dec. 16, 1825, in Baltimore, Md.

Pinkney, Ninian

surgeon, was born June 7, 1811, in Annapolis, Md. He entered the United States navy as assistant surgeon in 1834, became surgeon in 1841, and became medical director with the rank of commodore in 1871. He died Dec. 15, 1877, near Easton, Md.

Pinkney, William

bishop, was born April 17, 1810, in Annapolis, Md.

He was the fifth protestant episcopal bishop of Maryland. He died July 4, 1883.

Pinney, Daniel H

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 2, 1837, in Albion, N. Y. He was a representative in the Illinois state legislature in 1876. and 1877; and in 1883 was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona.

Pinney, Laura Young

author, poet, was born in Iowa. She is the author of a collection of poems entitled Within. the Golden Gate.

Pinney, Norman

clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1800, in Simsbury, Conn. In 1852 he was associated with Joseph Rindge in establishing a large boys' school, which was called the Collegiate institute of Mobile. He contributed poetry to periodicals, and was the author of a series of text-books, including First Book in French; Key to the Same; Progressive French Reader; and Practical French Reader. He died Oct. 1, 1862, in New Orleans, La.

Pintard, Lewis

merchant, was born He Oct. 12, 1732, in New York city. ranked as one of the great merchants of his time, and was one of the incorporators of the chamber of commerce, which was established by George III in 1770 and by the New York legislature in 1784. He died March 25, 1818, in Princeton, N. J.

Piper, Richard Upton

physician, author, was born April 3, 1818, in Stratham, N. H. He is a Chicago physician; and the author of Operative Surgery; and The Trees of America.

Piper, William

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813.

Piper, William A

soldier, congressman, was born in 1825 in Franklin county, Pa. He moved to California in 1849, in San Francisco. In 1874 he was elected a representative from California to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.