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Pottle, Abel Warren

clergyman, was born Sept. 23, 1834, in Salem, Maine.

He received his education at the Farmington academy, the Maine Wesleyan seminary, and the Boston Theological school. He has attained eminence as a successful methodist episcopal clergyman, and has filled pastorates in Bethel, Oxford, Westbrook, Portland, Kittery, Waterville, Saco, Bath and Bowdoinham.

Pottle, Emory B

lawyer, state legislator, congressman. He served one term in the legislature of New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.

Potts, Benjamin F

governor. He was governor of the territory of Montana from 1870 to 1883.

Potts, David

congressman, was born in 1793 in Chester county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1839. He died in 1863.

Potts, James Henry

clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 12, 1848, in Canada. He is a methodist clergyman; and editor of The Michigan Christian Advocate from 1877. He is the author of Methodism in the Field; Golden Dawn; Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and Crowns; and Faith Made Easy.

Potts, Richard

state senator, congressman, governor, was born in July, 1753, in Upper Marlborough, Md. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1781 and 1782; and was governor of Maryland during the same years. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1792 to 1796. He died Nov. 26, 1808, in Frederick county, Md.

Potts, Stacey Gardner

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1799, in Harrisburg, Pa. He was a jurist of Trenton, N. J.; and the author of Village Tales; and Precedents and Notes of Practice in the New Jersey Chancery Court. He died April 9, 1865, in Trenton, N. J.

Potts, William Stephens

clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 13, 1802, in Northumberland county, Pa. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of St. Louis, Mo., in 1828-35, president of Marion college for the subsequent four years; founded the Second Presbyterian church of St. Louis in 1838, and was its pastor till his death.

He published several sermons. He died March 27, 1852, in St. Louis, Mo.

Poujade, Joseph

lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1852, in Marion county, Ore. In 1873 he settled in Nevada and served as state senator during 1885- 87; assemblyman in 1889; and lieutenantgovernor in 1891-94. During those four years he was also adjutant-general, state librarian and president of the senate.

Poulson, Zachariah

journalist, was born Sept. 5, 1761, in Philadelphia, Pa. For many years he was printer to the senate of Pennsylvania. In 1800 he began the publication of the American Daily Advertiser, the first daily in the United States; and he continued as its editor and proprietor till its discontinuance in 1839. He issued Poulson's Town and Country Almanac and other works.

He died July 31, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Pound, Cuthbert W

lawyer, educator, was born June 20, 1864, in Lockport, N. Y. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar, and was city attorney of Lockport, N. Y., during 1888-90. In 1893 he was elected to the state senate. In 1895 he accepted the law professorship at Cornell university.

Pound, Roscoe

educator, author, was born Oct. 27, 1870, in Lincoln, Neb.

Since 1892 he has been director of the botanical survey of Nebraska. He is the author of numerous botanical papers and monographs, mostly on the fungi.