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Price, Thomas Lawson – Prince, L. Bradford
Price, Thomas Lawson
congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1809, near Danville, Va. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress. He died July 15, 1870, in Lexington, Mo.
Price, Thomas Randolph
educator, author, was born in 1839 in Virginia.
He is a professor of English literature at Columbia college from 1882; and the author of The Teaching of the Mother Tongue; and Shakespeare's Verse Construction.
Price, William P
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1835, in Dahlonega, Ga. He practiced law at Greenville, S. C., and was a member of the state legislature in 1864-66. He returned to Georgia in 1866, and was a member of the legislature of Georgia in 1868. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Prickett, Henry E
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 1, 1829, in England. He was county judge of Jackson county, Wis., from 1856 to 1860, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1858. He settled in Idaho territory; was a member of the council of the territorial legislature in 1875, and in 1876 was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Idaho, and was reappointed in 1880.
Priest, Henry Samuel
jurist, was born Feb. 7, 1853, in Ralls county, Mo.
In 1894 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Missouri.
Priest, Josiah
author, was born about 1790 in New York. He was a harness-maker of New York state, some of whose books were very popular. He was the author of Wonders of Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution; American Antiquities; and Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture. He died about 1850.
Prime, Frederick
geologist, educator, was born March 1, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he was elected professor of mining and metallurgy at Lafayette, and in 1874 he became assistant geologist on the geological survey of Pennsylvania, both of which places he filled until 1879. At the world's fair of 1876 he was judge of the group on mining and metallurgy, filling the office of secretary to the board.
Prime, Frederick Edward
soldier, was born Sept. 24, 1829, in Italy.
He was promoted major in 1863, brevetted lieutenant-colonel the following month for meritorious services before Vicksburg, and colonel and brigadier-general in 1865 for gallant conduct throughout the war.
Prime, William Cowper
journalist, educator, author, was born Oct. 31, 1825, in Cambridge, N. Y. He is a lawyer and journalist, and professor of the history of art at Princeton college from 1884. He is the author of Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life in the Holy Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins, Medals and Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads; and Among the Northern Hills.
Prince, Charles H
soldier, public official, congressman, was born May 9, 1837, in Buckfield, Maine. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Prince, Henry
soldier, was born June 19, 1811, in Eastport, Maine. In the civil war he took part in the northern Virginia campaign, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers.
Prince, L. Bradford
lawyer, jurist, senator, governor, author, was born July 3, 1840, in Flushing, N. Y. In 1871 he was elected to the New York assembly from Queens county; in 1875 was a member of the state senate; in 1879 was elected chief justice of New Mexico; and in 1889 was elected governor. He is the author of American Nationality; General Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; and The American Church and Its Name.