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Porterfield, Charles
soldier, was born in 1750 in Frederick county, Va.
He was first sergeant of Capt. Daniel Morgan's company in the revolutionary war, and was captured in the assault on Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775. After being exchanged he served as captain until 1777, then he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of a Virginia regiment, and was mortally wounded in the battle of Camden, S. C., Aug. 16, 1780, and died in the following October on the banks of the Santee river.
Portier, Michel
bishop, was born Sept. 7, 1795, in France. In 1826 he was consecrated Roman catholic bishop of Olena, at St. Augustine, Fla. He died May 14, 1859, in Mobile, Ala.
Pory, John
pioneer, was born about 1570 in England. During 1619-21 he was secretary of the Virginia colony, and he was elected speaker of the first representative assembly that was ever held in this country, which convened in Jamestown in 1619. He died before 1635 in Virginia.
Posey, Carnot
soldier, was born Aug. 5, 1818, in Wilkinson county, Miss.
He became colonel of the sixteenth Mississippi regiment in 1861, and was appointed brigadier-general in the confederate army in 1862. He died Nov. 13, 1863, in Charlottesville, Va.
Posey, John W
lawyer, public official, was born Aug. 6, 1847, in Petersburg, Ind. He attended the Georgetown academy, and the Baylor university. He is a successful lawyer and land agent of Austin, Texas; has been county treasurer; justice of the peace; county commissioner of Nolan county; and has held various other public positions of trust.
Posse, Nils
educator, author, was born in 1862 in Sweden. He was a Boston instructor in gymnastics; and the author of Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; and Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics.
He died in 1895.
Post, George A
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1854, in Cuba, N. Y. He entered the service of the Erie Railway company; and was for several years secretary of the motive power department. He was elected chief burgess of Susquehanna in 1877. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Post, Isaac
philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 26, 1798, in Westbury, N.
Y. He resided in Rochester when public attention was first attracted to the manifestations by the Fox sisters, and became one of the earliest converts to spiritualism. He was the author of Voices from the Spirit World, being Communications from Many Spirits, by the Hand of Isaac Post, Medium. He died May 9, 1872, in Rochester, N. Y.
Post, Jotham
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly for four years from the city of New York; and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1813 to 1815.
Post, Minturn
physician, was born June 28, 1808, in New York city. In 1843 he was called to be medical examiner of the New York Life Insurance company. He translated and added notes to Raciborski's Auscultation and Percussion. He died April 26, 1869, in New York city.
Post, Morton E
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1840, in Monroe county, N.
Y. He was elected a member of the territorial council in 1878; and was elected the delegate from Wyoming to the fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.
Post, Truman Marcellus
clergyman, author, was born June 3, 1810, in Middlebury, Vt. He was a congregational clergyman and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington university; and the author of The Skeptical Era in Modern History. He died Dec. 31, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.