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Pook, Samuel Moore

naval constructor, was born Aug. 15, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was the inventor of numerous devices connected with his profession, and wrote A Method of Comparing the Lines; and Draughting Vessels Propelled by Sail or Steam. He died Dec. 2, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Pool, Charles C

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1845 in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1868, and in 1870 was elected a judge of the superior court of the state of North Carolina. He was twice elected a member of congress, and in 1896 became mayor of his native city. a

Pool, Maria Louise

author, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. She was a novelist of Rockland, Mass., for many years a writer for the New York Tribune; and the author of In Buncombe County; A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs.

Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The Two Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; Against Human Nature; In a Dike Shanty; In the First Person; and Boss and Other Dogs.

Pool, Walter F

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1850, in Elizabeth City, N. C. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortyeighth congress. He died Aug. 25, 1883, in Elizabeth City, N. C.

Poole, Daniel

soldier, manufacturer, inventor, was born June 10, 1797, in Abingdon, Mass. He was the inventor and patentee of shoe nails, and other valuable nails and tacks, which he manufactured in Philadelphia, Pa. About 1827 he invented and patented a cracker machine, and also a spinning jenny. He also invented a dredging machine, brick-making machinery, and a quartz crusher. He died March 5, 1864, at Mt. Carmel, Ill., of which city he was mayor in 1854.

Poole, Edward Valentine

banker, was born April 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He founded the First National bank of Pittston, Pa., and the Home Savings bank of South Waverly, Pa. He was captain of an independent military company. He died Oct. 6, 1887, in Wyoming, Del.

Poole, James Earl

lawyer, journalist, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served as mayor of Weimar, Tex., for two terms; in 1880 he was prosecuting attorney of his county; and in 1884-90 was county judge for three terms. He is the editor and owner of the Free Press of Haskell, Tex.

Poole, Samuel

legislator, was born in 1790 in Weymouth, Mass. He was one of the original settlers of Abington, Mass., and the first representative of that place to the general court in 1735, in which he served several successive years.

He died in 1785.

Poole, Samuel

JR., patriot of the revolutionary war, was born Sept. 18, 1813, in Abington, Mass. He was a representative to the general court in 1765, and 1778-80, and a member of the first state constitutional convention of 1879.

He died April 28, 1796, in Plainfield, Mass.

Poole, Samuel

soldier, farmer, was born Aug. 27, 1736, in Abington, Mass.

He was a soldier in the old French and

Poole, Edward

colonist, was born in 1609 in Weymouth, England. In 1639 he came to America and founded Wey-Indian wars, and became a second-lieumouth, Mass. He was a large landed proprietor, an influential man, and died in tenant in the revolutionary war, in which he served five years. He died Dec. 19, 1830, at Easton, Mass.

Poole, Stephen D

educator, journalist, was born in 1852 in North Carolina. In 1882 he became state superintendent of public instruction of North Carolina; and subsequently wås editor of the New Orleans Daily Bee. He died in 1889 in New Orleans, La.