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Plunkett, Joseph Daniel

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born July 5, 1 1842, in Ireland. He served as a soldier during the civil war. He entered into the active practice of law in New Haven, Conn. During 1883-84 he represented his district in the general assembly of Connecticut.

PLYMPTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, civil engineer, journalist, author, was born Nov. 18, 1827, in Waltham, Mass. He is a civil engineer of note, editor of Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine in 1870-86; and the author of The Blow-pipe; The Starfinder; and The Aneroid.

POCAHONTAS, Indian heroine, was born in 1594. She was a daughter of Powhatan, an Indian chief of Virginia. She saved the life of Capt. John Smith, who was condemned to death by her father.

She subsequently married Thomas Rolfe; accompanied her husband to England, where she was presented to court. She died a year later, at the age of twentythree, leaving one son. This son was educated in England; afterward returned to Virginia; became wealthy and distinguished; and from whom have descended several well-known families of that state.

She died in 1617.