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Pulle, William Adams

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1819, in Richmond county, N. C. He has been prosecuting attorney, judge of the common pleas, and secretary of the state of Indiana. He has been one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana, and resides in Centreville.

PULLEN, MRS. ELISABETH (JONES) (CAVAZZA), author, was born in Maine.

She is a littérateur of Portland, Maine, and the author of Don Finimondone:

Calabrian Sketches.

PULLMAN, GEORGE MORTIMER, founder and president of the Pullman Palace Car company, was born March 3, 1831, in Brockton, N.

Y. In 1859 he settled in Chicago during the period when the whole city was being lifted bodily to a higher level, and gained perhaps $20,- 000 by raising the Mattison house and various blocks of buildings and the level of certain streets under contract.

It was in 1859 that the attention of Mr. Pullman was first drawn, by traveling in one between Buffalo and Westfield, to the uncomfortable sleeping cars of that day, then consisting of ordinary passenger cars with three rows of bunks on each side. After conversations on the subject with Hon. Benjamin Field of New York state, Mr. Pullman became a partner of Mr. Field in the operation of sleeping cars on the Chicago and Alton and the old Galena railroads.