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Prouty, Charles Azro

lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 9, 1853, in Newport, R. I. In 1882-86 he was state's attorney, and in 1888 was elected a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives. In 1896 he was appointed a member of the inter-state commerce commission at Washington, D. C. PRUDDEN, THEOPHILE MITCHELL, educator, physician, author, was born in 1849 in Connecticut. He is a New York physician, professor of pathology in the college of Physicians and Surgeons, and the author of Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafield); Dust and Its Dangers; Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy; and Story of the Bacteria.

PRUD'HOMME, JOHN FRANCIS EU- GENE, engraver, was born Oct. 4, 1800, in West Indies. At the age of seventeen he essayed engraving portraits, and produced several fine plates for Longacre and Herring's National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. He also engraved some plates for the annuals that were fashionable at that time. He is the oldest living American engraver.