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Pomeroy, Seth – Pook, Samuel Hartt

Pomeroy, Seth

soldier, was born May 20, 1706, in Northampton, Mass. He was an ardent patriot, and in 1774-75 served as a delegate to the provincial congress, by which he was elected a general officer in 1774, and brigadier-general in 1775. He died Feb. 19, 1777, in Peekskill.

Pond, Benjamin

state legislator, congressman. He served four years in the assembly of New York from Essex county.

He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813; and was reelected. He died in June, 1815, in Schroon, N. Y.

Pond, C. H

governor. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1853; and was subsequently acting governor of the state for almost one year.

Pond, Chester Pratt

educator, author, poet, was born Nov. 10, 1827, in Venango county, Pa. In 1857 he opened the business school in Kansas at Leavenworth. For fifty years he has been a business college teacher; and now conducts a private school of business in Topeka. He is the author of several prose works, and a volume of poems.

Pond, Enoch

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born July 29, 1791, in Wrentham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological seminary at Bangor, Maine, from 1832, and its president from 1856. He was the author of Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History; Pastoral Theology; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of Increase Mather; Plato: his Life, Works, Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theology; and History of God's Church. He died Jan. 21, 1882, in Bangor, Maine.

Pond, Frederick Eugene

author, was born April 8, 1856, in Backwaukee, Wis. He is a sporting writer and editor of Chicago; and the author of Handbook for Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Eminent Sportsmen; and Gun Trial and Field Records of America.

Pond, George Edward

journalist, author, was born March 11, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He is a journalist of New York and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and Navy Journal; and the author of The Shenandoah Valley in 1864.

Pond, James Burton

soldier, lecture manager, was born June 11, 1838, in Cuba, N. Y. He served in the civil war; attained for ganant services the rank of major. After the civil war he entered into the mercantile business; and is now a lecture manager.

Pond, Samuel William

missionary, author, was born April 10, 1808, in Washington, Conn. He is a congregational missionary to the Indians in Minnesota; and the author of History of Joseph in the Dakota Language; and Wonapi Inonpa, the Second Dakota Reading Book.

Pond, William Adams

soldier, music-publisher, was born Oct. 6, 1824, in Albany, N. Y. He became well known as a publisher, and at the time of his death was president of the United States Music Publishers' association. He died Aug. 12, 1885, in New York city.

Ponder, James

merchant, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 31, 1819, in Milton, Del. In 1856 he was elected a representative to the Delaware legislature; and in 1864 was elected state senator, and in 1867 became speaker of that body. In 1870 he was elected governor of Delaware for the term ending in 1875.

Pook, Samuel Hartt

naval constructor, was born Jan. 17, 1827, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1842 he became a naval architect, and in 1866 was appointed constructor in the United States navy.