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Profit, George H

diplomat, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1839 to 1843, and in 1843 was United States minister to Brazil. He died Sept. 5, 1847, in Louisville, Ky.

Proonie, John William

educator, chemist, was born June 19, 1866, in Cole's Creek, Miss. He has been a fellow in chemistry of the university of Mississippi, and professor of natural sciences and chairman of the faculty in the Mississippi college.

Prose, Joseph Benson

educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1856, in Patriot, Ohio. He received a liberal education in the public schools, and subsequently attended the Ohio university for three years. In his early days he was engaged in educational work; and is now a prominent lawyer of Kansas at Hoisington. He is attorney for the Missouri and Pacific Railway company; and a most successful commercial and corporation lawyer.

Prosser, William F

soldier, merchant, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 16, 1834, in Williamsport, Pa. He was elected a representative in the Tennessee state legislature in 1867, and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Proud, Robert

author, was born May 10, 1728, in England. He was the author of a History of Pennsylvania. He died July 7, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa.

PROUDFIT, ALEXANDER MON- CRIEF, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1770, in Pequea, Pa. He was an associate reformed presbyterian clergyman, and the author of Discourses on the Parables; and Theological Works. He died Nov. 23, 1843, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Proudfit, David Law

soldier, poet, was born Oct. 27, 1842, in Newburgh, N. Y. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, gaining the rank of major. He afterward entered business in New York city. His poems have been collected in two volumes entitled, Love Among the Gamins; and Mask and Domino. He died in 1897.

Proudfit, John Williams

educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 22, 1803, in Salem, N. Y. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman, professor of Greek in Rutgers college, 1840-64, and the author of Man's Two-Fold Life. He died March 9, 1870, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Pruyn, Isaac

lawyer, banker, was born Nov. 25, 1816, in Kinderhook, N. Y.

He was one of the incorporators of the Catskill Mountain railroad; and also trustee and director of several banking and railroad corporations.

Pryor, Luke

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born July 5, 1820, in Madison county, Ala.

In 1845 he moved to Limestone county, Ala., and in 1855 was elected a representative in the state legislature. In 1880 he was appointed United States senator, and was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

Pryor, Roger Atkinson

soldier, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born July 19, 1828, near Petersburg, Va. He was a brigadier-general in the confederate army and a member of the confederate congress. He was a member of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses, special minister to Greece under the Pierce administration, and judge of court of common pleas in New York city, where he was also justice of the supreme court.

Pugh, Evan

chemist, college president, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Nottingham, Pa. In 1859 he accepted the presidency of Pennsylvania Agricultural college. He at once organized a new scheme of instruction, planned and superintended the erection of the college buildings. He died April 29, 1864, in Bellefontaine, Pa.

Pugh, George Ellis

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Nov. 28, 1822, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a representative in the Ohio legislature in 1848 and 1849. He was appointed solicitor of the city of Cincinnati in 1850, and was attorney-general of the state in 1851. He was elected a senator in congress from 1855 for six years. He died July 19, 1876, in Cincinnati, Ohio.