Chapter M (3)

=Nevius, Mrs. Helen S---- [Coan].= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. Wife of J. L. Nevius, _infra_. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (in Chinese); Our Life in China; Life of J. P. Nevius. _Rev._

=Nevius, John Livingston.= _N. Y._, 1829-1893. A Presbyterian missionary in Ningpo. China and The Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the Hills; Methods of Missionary Work; Demon Possession; and a number of works in Chinese. _See Life by his wife._ _Rev._

=Newberry, John Strong.= _Ct._, 1822-1892. A geologist who was professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia College, 1866-92, and State geologist of Ohio from 1869. He published nine volumes of reports relating to the geological survey of Ohio; Paleozoic Fishes of North America, and many scientific papers.

=Newcomb, Harvey.= _Ms._, 1803-1863. A Congregational clergyman of Western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young Lady’s Guide; How to be a Man; How to be a Lady; Manners and Customs of North American Indians.

=Newcomb, Simon.= _N. S._, 1835- ----. An astronomer of distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the Navy Department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-93. Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy; Geometry; Analytic Geometry; Essentials of Trigonometry; Calculus; A Plain Man’s Talk on the Labor Question; Principles of Political Economy; The A, B, C, of Finance, include his most important publications. _Har. Ho._

=Newell, Robert Henry.= “Orpheus C. Kerr.” _N. Y._, 1836-1901. A journalist of New York city, at one time popular as a humorist. Versatilities, a collection of humorous and other verses; The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems; Avery Glibun, an American romance; The Walking Doll, a novel; There Was Once a Man; Studies in Stanzas. _Fo. Le._

=Newell, Samuel.= _Me._, 1784-1821. A noted Baptist missionary in Bombay. The Conversion of the World (1818); Life of Harriet Newell (his first wife) which was widely popular.

=Newell, William Wells.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A folk-lore scholar of Cambridge, editor of The Journal of American Folk-Lore from 1888. Games and Songs of American Children; Words for Music, a collection of verse. _Har._

=Newhall, Charles Stedman.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A clergyman and educator of Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Trees of Northeastern America; The Shrubs of Northeastern America; The Vines of Northeastern America; The Leaf-Collector’s Handbook and Herbarium. His writings for young people include Harry’s Trip to the Orient; Joe and the Howards; Ruthie’s Story. _Put._

=Newman, John Philip.= _N. Y._, 1826-1899. A Methodist bishop at Omaha, at one time a prominent Washington pastor. From Dan to Beersheba; Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh; Christianity Triumphant; America for Americans; The Supremacy of Law. _Fu. Meth._

=Newman, Samuel Phillips.= _Ms._, 1796-1842. An educator who was a classical professor in Bowdoin College. Practical System of Rhetoric, long a popular work; Elements of Political Economy.

=Newton, Richard.= _E._, 1812-1887. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, long prominent among extreme Low Churchmen. The King’s Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills from the Fountain of Life; Bible Promises; Natural History of the Bible, are among his writings. _Rev._

=Newton, Richard Heber.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. Son of R. Newton, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of All-Souls Church, and prominent as a very Broad Church theologian. Among more conservative thinkers his views have excited much opposition and needless alarm. Womanhood; The Morals of Trade; The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; Philistinism; Social Studies; Church and Creed; The Children’s Church. _Put. Ran._

=Newton, Robert Safford.= _O._, 1818-1881. A surgeon of New York city. Eclectic Treatise in the Practice of Medicine; Antiseptic Surgery.

=Newton, William.= _E._, _c._ 1820-189-. Brother of R. Newton, _supra_. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel; The Morning Star, and Other Poems; Nature’s Testimony to Nature’s God.

=Newton, William Wilberforce.= _Pa._, 1843- ----. Son of R. Newton, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Essays of To-Day, Religious and Theological; The Legend of St. Telemachus; The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; Summer Sermons; The Voice Out of Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Héloise, an historical novel; Life of W. A. Muhlenberg, _supra_; and several collections of sermons to children, including, The Wicket Gate; The Interpreter’s House; Little and Wise; A Father’s Blessing. _Hou. Ran. Wh._

=Nichols, Edward Leamington.= _E._, 1854- ----. A professor of physics at Cornell University from 1887. Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Mechanics; The Galvanometer. _Mac._

=Nichols, George Ward.= _Me._, 1831-1885. A writer on art and music who was president of the Cincinnati College of Music. The Story of the Great March; Art Education Applied to Industry; Pottery; Sanctuary, a story of the Civil War. _Har._

=Nichols, Ichabod.= _N. H._, 1784-1859. A Unitarian minister of Portland, Maine, 1814-55, and from the latter date a resident of Cambridge. Natural Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; Remembered Words. _A. U. A._

=Nichols, James Robinson.= _Ms._, 1819-1888. A manufacturing chemist of Boston who founded The Journal of Chemistry (now The Popular Science News) in 1866. What, When, and Where?; Fireside Science; Chemistry of the Farm; The New Agriculture.

=Nichols, Mrs. Mary Sargeant [Neal] [Gove].= “Mary Orme.” _N. H._, 1810- ----. A hydropathic physician. Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology; Experience in Water Cure; A Woman’s Work in Water Cure and Sanitary Education. As “Mary Orme” she published the novels, Uncle John; Agnes Norris; The Two Loves, Eros and Anteros.

=Nichols, Mrs. Rebecca S---- [Reed].= _Ms._, 1820- ----. A verse-writer of Cincinnati. Bernice, and Other Poems; Songs of the Heart.

=Nichols, Starr Hoyt.= _Ct._, 1834- ----. A broker of New York city, in earlier life a Unitarian minister. He has published Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.

=Nichols, Thomas L----.= _Circa_ 1820- ----. An American physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the Civil War. Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a Day; Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.

=Nichols, Walter Ripley.= _Ms._, 1847-1886. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who published Water Supply from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint, and many scientific papers.

=Nicholson, Mrs. Eliza Jane [Poitevent].= “Pearl Rivers.” _Mi._, 1849-1896. A journalist of New Orleans, owner and editor of The Picayune, and the first woman in the world to own and manage a great daily paper. Lyrics.

=Nicholson, James Bartram.= _Mo._, 1820- ----. A prominent bookbinder of Philadelphia, author of a Manual of Bookbinding, an exhaustive treatise on the subject. _Bai._

=Nicholson, William Rufus.= _Mi._, 1822-1901. A Reformed Episcopal bishop, dean of the theological seminary of that faith in Philadelphia. The Blessedness of Heaven; Why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian; The Real Presence; The Call to the Ministry.

=Nicolay, John George.= _Bv._, 1832-1901. The private secretary of President Lincoln, and marshal of the United States Supreme Court, 1872-87. The Outbreak of the Rebellion; Abraham Lincoln, a History (with J. Hay, _supra_). _Cent. Scr._

=Nicum, John.= _Wg._, 1851- ----. A prominent Lutheran minister of Rochester, New York, who has published History of the New York Ministerium; Gleichniss-Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a translation of Wolf’s Lutherans in America.

=Nieriker, Mrs. May [Alcott].= _Ms._, 1840-1879. Daughter of A. B. Alcott, _supra_. An artist who published Concord Sketches; Studying Art Abroad. _Rob._

=Niles, Hezekiah.= _Del._, 1777-1839. A journalist of Baltimore, founder of Niles’s Register. The towns of Niles, Michigan, and Niles, Ohio, were named in his honour. Quill Driving; Principles and Acts of the Revolutionary Period. _Bar._

=Niles, John Milton.= _Ct._, 1787-1856. A journalist of Hartford who was postmaster-general in 1840. Lives of Perry, Laurence, Pike, Harrison; The Civil Officer; History of the Revolution in Mexico and Central America.

=Niles, Samuel.= _R. I._, 1674-1762. A Congregational clergyman who was pastor of the church at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1711 till his death. Tristitiæ Ecclesiarum, a Brief and Sorrowful Account of the Churches in New England; God’s Wonder-Working Providence for New England in the Reduction of Louisburg; Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin; The True Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin; History of the French and Indian Wars.

=Nipher, Francis Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A professor of physics in Washington University at St. Louis from 1874, who has published Theory of Magnetic Measurement.

=Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice [Matthews].= “Catherine Owen.” _E._, 18-- -1889. A writer on domestic science whose home was at Plainfield, New Jersey. Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop’s Family; Progressive Housekeeping. _Har. Hou._

=Noah, Mordecai Manuel.= _Pa._, 1785-1851. A once noted journalist of New York city, who endeavoured unsuccessfully to found a Jewish colony on Grand Island, in the Niagara River. Travels in England, France, and Spain; Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote several successful plays, among which are, The Siege of Tripoli; The Fortress of Sorrente.

=Noble, Annette Lucile.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A fiction-writer of Albion, New York, among whose works are, Uncle Jack’s Executors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love and Shawl-Straps; After the Failure; The Silent Man’s Legacy. _Put._

=Noble, Lucretia Gray.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A writer of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, whose only novel, A Reverend Idol, was very popular. _Hou._

=Noble, Edmund.= _S._, 1853- ----. A journalist who travelled in Russia, 1882-1884, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. The Russian Revolt (1885). _Hou._

=Noble, Louis Legrand.= _N. Y._, 1813-1882. An Episcopal clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the State of New York. Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; A Voyage to the Arctic Seas.

=Nordheimer, Isaac.= _G._, 1809-1842. An educator of New York city, instructor in sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary, 1838-42. Hebrew Grammar; Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture.

=Nordhoff, Charles.= _P._, 1830-1901. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. Man-of-War Life; The Merchant Vessel; Whaling and Fishing; Man-of-War Yarns; Cape Cod and All Along Shore; Peninsular California; Northern California; Secession is Rebellion; Communistic Societies of the United States; Politics for Young Americans; God and the Future Life, include his more important works. _Do. Har._

=Norman, Benjamin Moore.= _N. Y._, 1809-1860. A bookseller of New Orleans. Rambles in Yucatan; New Orleans and its Environs; Rambles by Land and Water.

=Norman, Henry.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A journalist of prominence. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East; The Real Japan. _Scr._

=Norris, George Washington.= _Pa._, 1808-1875. A Philadelphia physician. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.

=Norris, Thaddeus.= _Pa._, 1811-1877. A Philadelphia business man who wrote much on sporting topics. American Angler’s Book; American Fish Culture. _Co._

=North, Elisha.= _Ct._, 1771-1843. A physician of New London, Connecticut. Treatise on Spotted Fever; Outlines of the Science of Life; Uncle Toby’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Phrenology. _See Life and Writings of, 1887._

=Northend, Charles.= _Ms._, 1814-1895. A prominent educator of Connecticut. Teacher and Parent; Teachers’ Associations; Annals of American Institutes of Instruction; Life of Elihu Burritt, _supra_.

=Northend, William Dummer.= _Ms._, 1823-1902. Brother of C. Northend, _supra_. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts. Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects; The Bay Colony. _Est._

=Northrop, Birdsey Grant.= _Ct._, 1817-1898. A prominent Connecticut educator, secretary of the State Board of Education, 1869-82. Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; Tree-Planting.

=Northrup, Ansel Judd.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A lawyer of Syracuse. Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks; Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan; Sconset Cottage Life.

=Norton, Andrews.= _Ms._, 1786-1853. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University, 1819-30, and prominent among conservative theologians of his faith. Historical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Tracts Concerning Christianity; Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of the Trinitarians. _See Memoir by W. Newell._ _A. U. A._

=Norton, Augustus Theodore.= _Ct._, 1808-1884. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alton, Illinois, author of a History of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois.

=Norton, Charles Eliot.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. Son of A. Norton, _supra_. A distinguished Dante scholar and a high authority on the history of art, since 1875 professor of the history of art in Harvard University. He has edited the Letters of J. R. Lowell, _supra_; the Writings of G. W. Curtis, _supra_; the Goethe and Carlyle Correspondence; the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated Dante’s Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia. His other works include, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in Italy; Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories. _Har. Hou._

=Norton, Charles Ledyard.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A journalist of New York city, at one time editor of Outing. Handbook of Florida; Political Americanisms; Jack Benson’s Log; A Medal of Honor Man, a book for boys. _Lgs. We._

=Norton, Frank Henry.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A journalist of New York city. Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; Daniel Boone, a romance.

=Norton, George Habley.= _N. Y._, 1824-1893. An Episcopal clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia, who published Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church.

=Norton, Herman.= _N. Y._, 1799-1855. A Presbyterian evangelist in New York State. The Christian and Deist in Contrast; Signs of Danger and Promise; Startling Facts for American Protestants.

=Norton, John.= _E._, 1606-1663. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of the church at Boston. He wrote much, and was a strenuous advocate of religious persecution. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; Life of Mr. John Cotton. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Longfellow’s New England Tragedies._

=Norton, John.= _Ms._, 1651-1716. Nephew of J. Norton, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at Hingham, 1678-1716, who is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet, a poem of some force and merit. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Norton, John Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1820-1881. Brother of G. H. Norton, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville, among whose many works are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for Families; The King’s Ferry-Boat; Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. _Wh._

=Norton, Mrs. Minerva [Brace].= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. An educator of Beloit, Wisconsin. In and Around Berlin; Service in the King’s Gardens. _Mg._

=Norton, Sidney Augustus.= _O._, 1835- ----. A scientist who has been professor of chemistry in Ohio University from 1873. Elements of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.

=Norton, William Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1810-1883. A professor of civil engineering in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, from 1852. Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.

=Nott, Eliphalet.= _Ct._, 1773-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, president of Union College, 1804-66. Counsels to Young Men; Lectures on Temperance. _See Memoir by Van Santvoord, 1876._

=Nott, Josiah Clark.= _S. C._, 1804-1873. A physician of Mobile, who wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was co-author with Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind, and of Indigenous Races of the Earth. _Lip._

=Nourse, James Duncan.= _Ky._, 1817-1854. A journalist of St. Louis. The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the Mississippi; God in History.

=Nourse, Joseph Everett.= _D. C._, 1819-1899. Cousin of J. D. Nourse, _supra_. A professor in the Naval Academy, 1850-81. The Maritime Canal of Suez; Astronomical and Meteorological Observations; American Explorations in the Ice Zones. _Lo._

=Noyes, Arthur Ames.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

=Noyes, Charles Henry.= “Charles Quiet.” _Mch._, 1849-1898. A lawyer and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published Studies in Verse. _Lip._

=Noyes, George Rapall.= _Ms._, 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University from 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation of the New Testament. _A. U. A._

=Noyes, Henry Drury.= _N. Y._, 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on Diseases of the Eye.

=Noyes, James.= _E._, 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of Newbury, Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.

=Noyes, James Oscar.= _N. Y._, 1829-1872. A physician and journalist of New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner of Life.

=Noyes, John Humphrey.= _Vt._, 1811-1886. A noted religionist who founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists. The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith; History of American Socialisms; House Talks. _Lip._

=Nuttall= [nŭt´al], =Thomas.= _E._, 1786-1859. A noted ornithologist and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832 and 1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Mississippi; A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, being a new edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and annotated by Montague Chamberlain. _See Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895._ _Lit._

=Nye, Bill.= _See Nye, Edgar._

=Nye, Edgar Wilson.= _Me._, 1850-1896. A humourous journalist whose writing, though very popular, is ephemeral in its nature and of little or no literary value. Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; Comic History of England. _Lip._

=Nystrom, John William.= 18-- -1885. An engineer in the United States navy. Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; Treatise on Screw Propellers. _Bai. Lip._

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=Oakes, Urian.= _E._, 1631-1681. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church in Cambridge, and president of Harvard College, 1675-81. He is chiefly remembered for his Elegy upon the Death of Thomas Shepard, a notable poem in six-lined stanzas, but his sermons, in point of style, are the best which were written in America during the colonial period. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Oakey, Alexander F.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. An architect of Buffalo. Building a Home; Home Grounds; The Art of Life and the Life of Art. _Ap. Har._

=Oakey, Emily Sullivan.= _N. Y._, 1829-1883. An educator of Albany. Dialogues and Conversations; At the Foot of Parnassus, a collection of verse.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, well known as a traveller. Camps in the Caribbees; Young Folks’ History of Mexico; The Silver City; Travels in Mexico; Mexican Resources and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold Mines; The Knockabout Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in the Everglades; In the Wake of Columbus; Josephine, Empress of the French. _Est. Le. Lo. Mer._

=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon.= _Pa._, 1868- ----. Son of Mrs. Oberholtzer, _infra_. A Philadelphia journalist. The Referendum in America, a Discussion of Law-Making by Popular Vote.

=Oberholtzer, Mrs. Sara Louisa [Vickers].= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A verse-writer of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Violet Lee, and Other Poems; Come for Arbutus; Hope’s Heart Bells, a novel; Daisies of Verse; Souvenirs of Occasions. _Lip._

=O’Brien, Fitz James.= _I._, 1828-1862. A brilliant but erratic journalist of New York city. Poems and Stories; The Diamond Lens, and Other Stories. _See Memoir by W. Winter, infra._ _Scr._

=O’Brien, John.= _I._, 1841-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 1877. He published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen editions. It is non-controversial in character, and is clear and forcible in its style.

=O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey.= _I._, 1797-1880. An historical writer of Albany, and subsequently of New York city. History of New Netherlands; Jesuit Relations; Documentary History of New York. He edited many volumes of State and colonial records.

=O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph.= _I._, 1821- ----. A Roman Catholic priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina. Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia; Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.

=O’Connor, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A journalist of Rochester, New York, whose collected Poems appeared in 1895. _Put._

=O’Connor, William Douglas.= _Ms._, 1832-1889. A clerk in the civil service at Washington. Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; Hamlet’s Note-Book. _Hou._

=O’Conor, John Francis Xavier.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the Society of Jesus, a professor in Boston College. Something Real; Lyric and Dramatic Poetry; Reading and the Mind.

=Odenheimer, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1817-1879. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, 1859-74, becoming bishop of Northern New Jersey in the latter year. Origin of the Prayer-Book; Essay on Canon Law; The Sacred Scriptures the Imperial Record of the Glory of the Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and its Vicinity; The Devout Churchman’s Companion; The True Catholic no Romanist; Thoughts on Immersion; Bishop White’s Opinions; Sermons, with Memoir. _Dut._

=Odiorne, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1769-1851. An iron manufacturer of Malden, Massachusetts. The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; Fame and Miscellanies.

=O’Donnell, Daniel Kane.= _Pa._, 1838-1871. A Philadelphia journalist who published The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems.

=O’Donnell, Jessie Fremont.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A writer of Lowville, New York. Heart Lyrics; Horseback Sketches.

=Officier, Morris.= _O._, 1823-1874. A Lutheran missionary. Plea for a Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western Africa a Mission Field; African Bible Pictures.

=O’Hara, Theodore.= _Ky._, 1820-1867. An officer in the United States army during the Mexican War, and subsequently in the Confederate army. He is remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of the Dead, stanzas from which have been inscribed on tablets in several of the national cemeteries.

=Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda [Lynch].= _N. Y._, 1814-1879. Wife of S. Olin, _infra_. Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious and Useful Questions on the Bible; The Perfect Light, comprise her most important writings.

=Olin, Stephen.= _Vt._, 1797-1851. A Methodist clergyman and educator, president of Wesleyan University from 1842. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College Life, its Theory and Practice; Youthful Piety. _See Life and Letters, 1857._ _Meth. Har._

=Oliver, Benjamin Lynde.= _Ms._, 1788-1843. A lawyer of Boston. Hints on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American Citizen; Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; Forms of Chancery. _Lit._

=Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson [Little] [Ellis].= _Ms._, 1844-1899. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts. Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She edited Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor.

=Oliver, Mrs. Martha [Capps].= _Il._, 1845- ----. A writer of Jacksonville, Illinois. Her writings in verse for juvenile readers comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; The Far West.

=Oliver, Peter.= _N. H._, 1822-1855. Nephew of B. L. Oliver, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an historical review of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents a not altogether favourable picture of the period under discussion. _Lit._

=Olmsted= [ŭm´sted or ŏm´sted], =Alexander Fisher.= _N. C._, 1822-1853. Son of D. Olmsted, _infra_. A professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina who published Elements of Chemistry.

=Olmsted, Denison.= _Ct._, 1791-1859. A scientist who was professor of natural philosophy at Yale College from 1825. Letters on Astronomy; Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Students’ Commonplace Book; Introduction to Natural Philosophy.

=Olmsted, Francis Allyn.= _N. C._, 1819-1844. Son of D. Olmsted, _supra_. A physician who published Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.

=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= _Ct._, 1822-1903. A celebrated landscape architect of Boston. He designed the Central Park of New York city and the park systems of Boston, Buffalo, and many other American cities. Walks and Talks of an American Farmer; A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; A Journey through Texas; A Journey in the Back Country.

=Olney, Jesse.= _Ct._, 1798-1872. A noted educator of Connecticut. The National Preceptor; Geography and Atlas (1828), a standard work for a generation; History of the United States.

=Olssen, William Whittingham.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of mathematics in St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, New York, from 1871. Personality, Human and Divine; Revelation, Universal and Special.

=Olsson= [ōl´sŭn], =Olof.= _Sn._, 1841-1900. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1891. At the Cross; Greetings from Afar, a volume of travel; The Christian Hope.

=Onderdonk, Henry.= _L. I._, 1804-1886. Nephew of H. U. Onderdonk, _infra_. An educator of Long Island, principal of Union Hall Academy, 1832-1865. Queens County in Olden Times; Annals of Hempstead, 1643-1832; Long Island and New York in Olden Times.

=Onderdonk, Henry Ustick.= _N. Y._, 1789-1858. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Episcopacy Tested by Scripture, republished as Episcopacy Examined and Re-Examined; Essay on Regeneration; Sermons and Charges; Family Devotions.

=O’Neall, John Belton.= _S. C._, 1793-1863. A South Carolina jurist. Digest of the Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; Bench and Bar of South Carolina.

=Opdyke, George.= _N. J._, 1805-1880. A banker of New York city, and mayor of that city, 1862-63. Treatise on Political Economy; Report on the Currency; Official Documents and Addresses.

=Optic, Oliver.= _See Adams, W. T._

=O’Reilly, Henry.= _I._, 1800-1886. A journalist of Rochester, New York. Sketches of Rochester; American Political Anti-Masonry.

=O’Reilly, John Boyle.= _I._, 1844-1890. A noted journalist of Boston, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a Fenian outbreak in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence he came to America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents speedily secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral, but his best lines have the ring of true poetry. Songs, Legends, and Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and Sketches; The Ethics of Boxing. _See Life by J. J. Boche, infra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42._

=O’Reilly, Miles.= _See Halpine._

=Orme, Mary.= _See Nichols, Mrs._

=Ormond, Alexander Thomas.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. Stuart professor of mental science and logic at Princeton University from 1883. Basal Concepts in Philosophy. _Scr._

=Orne, Mrs. Caroline [Chaplin].= _Ms._, 18-- -1882. Niece of J. Chaplin, 1st, _supra_. A once popular magazinist, who was the author of more than two hundred and fifty stories.

=Orne, Caroline Frances.= _Ms._, 1818- ----. A Cambridge writer of verse, and also of stories for children. Her life has all been passed in Cambridge, her native place. A Day in the Woodlands; Lucy’s Party, and Other Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with Other Poems; Morning Songs of American Freedom.

=Orton, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1829-1899. The State geologist of Ohio from 1883. Economic Geology of Ohio; Petroleum and Inflammable Gas. _Clke._

=Orton, James.= _N. Y._, 1830-1877. A Congregational clergyman, well known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural history at Vassar College, 1869-1877. Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes and the Amazon; Underground Treasures; Liberal Education of Women. _Bai. Har._

=Orton, James Rockwood.= _N. Y._, 1800-1867. A littérateur of New York city. Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red Men; Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. _Mac._

=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= _Ct._, 1857- ----. A professor of biology at Columbia College. From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evolution idea. _Mac._

=Osborn, Henry Stafford.= _Pa._, 1823-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor in Miami University, Ohio, 1871-73. Palestine Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land; Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual of Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Little Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of Palestine; The Prospector’s Field Book and Guide; A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining. _Bai. Clke._

=Osborn, John.= _Ms._, 1713-1753. A physician of Middletown, Connecticut, whose Whaling Song was long popular among sailors.

=Osborn, Laughton.= _N. Y._, 1809-1878. An artist and littérateur of New York city. Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting; Travels by Sea and Land, and a number of comedies and tragedies, include the most of his writing.

=Osborn, Selleck.= _Ct._, 1783-1826. A journalist, once popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical.

=Osborne, [Samuel] Duffield.= _L. I._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of New York city. The Spell of Ashtaroth; The Robe of Nessus. _Scr._

=Oscanyan, Hatchik.= _Ty._, 1818- ----. An Armenian writer of New York city who took the name of Christopher. Acaby, a satirical romance; Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; The Sultan and His People, once a very popular work.

=Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent [Locke].= _Ms._, 1811-1850. A verse-writer whose poems were for a time extremely popular. She was the wife of an artist, and lived some years in London. The Casket of Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a play written for Sheridan Knowles; Poems. _See Life by Griswold; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Osgood, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1748-1813. A statesman who was a member of the Continental Congress, 1780-84, and naval officer of the port of New York, 1803-13. Letter on Episcopacy; Remarks on Daniel and Revelation; Theology and Metaphysics.

=Osgood, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1812-1880. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city, 1849-69. In 1870 he entered the Episcopal ministry, but assumed no parochial duties. Studies in Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Journey; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals; American Leaves; The New Hampshire Book (with C. J. Fox). His published orations upon patriotic events, notable men, and historic themes, are numerous. _Har._

=Osler, William.= _Ont._, 1849- ----. A physician, professor in Johns Hopkins University from 1889. Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. _Ap._

=Osmun, Thomas Embley.= “Alfred Ayres.” _O._, 1826-1902. An author of New York city. The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated edition of Cobbett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; The Essentials of Elocution. _Ap. Fu._

=Ossoli= [ŏs´o-lee], =Sarah Margaret [Fuller], Marchioness d’.= _Ms._, 1810-1850. A once famous writer of Boston whose personality was more than anything she ever wrote, and who is little more than a name to the present generation. She was a gifted woman, and as a teacher in Boston, editor of The Dial, and literary critic for The New York Tribune, was a prominent figure. In 1845 she went to Italy, and there was married to the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature, and the Drama; At Home and Abroad; A Summer on the Lakes. _See Memoir by Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke; Lives by Higginson, Mrs. J. W. Howe; Galaxy Magazine, May, 1878; Lowell’s Fable for Critics._

=Oswald, Felix Leopold.= _Bm._, 1845- ----. A naturalist of Tennessee. Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical Sketches; Household Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of the Christian Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics; The Bible of Nature; The Poison Problem. _Ap. Lip. Lo._

=Otis, Mrs. Eliza Henderson [Bordman].= _Ms._, 1796-1873. Daughter-in-law of H. G. Otis, _infra_. A philanthropist and social leader in Boston who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a novel.

=Otis, Elwell Stephen.= _Md._, 1838- ----. A United States army officer. The Indian Question.

=Otis, Fessenden Nott.= _N. Y._, 1825-1900. A physician of New York city. Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis; Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.

=Otis, George Alexander.= _Ms._, 1830-1881. A surgeon who was curator of the Army Medical Museum at Washington. Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; Amputation at the Hip Joint.

=Otis, Harrison Gray.= _Ms._, 1765-1848. Nephew of J. Otis, _infra_. A prominent citizen of Boston famous for his eloquence. Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention; Orations and Addresses.

=Otis, James.= _Ms._, 1725-1783. A celebrated orator and politician, and one of the most active advocates of American independence. He was an impetuous, vehement speaker, and seldom failed to carry his hearers with him. Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved; Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists; A Vindication of the Rights of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. _See Life by Tudor._

=Otis, James.= _See Kaler._

=Ott, Isaac.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A physician who has published Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System.

=Otts, John Martin Philip.= _S. C._, 1838-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Talladega, Alabama. Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for a Dead World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; At Mother’s Knee. _Rev._

=Overman, Frederick.= _G._, _c._ 1810-1852. A mining engineer of Philadelphia. The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s and Founder’s Pocket Guide; Mechanics for the Millwright, etc.; Treatise on Metallurgy. _Ap. Bai._

=Owen, Catherine.= _See Nitsch, Mrs._

=Owen, David Dale.= _S._, 1807-1860. Brother of R. D. Owen, _infra_. The State geologist of Indiana. Report of a Geological Survey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; Report of a Geological Reconnoissance.

=Owen, John Jason.= _N. Y._, 1803-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of New York city. Commentary on the Gospels; Acts of the Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of Xenophon, Thucydides, and Homer.

=Owen, Richard.= _S._, 1810-1890. Brother of R. D. Owen, _infra_, and of D. D. Owen, _supra_. A geologist of New Harmony, Indiana. He succeeded his brother David as State geologist in 1860, and was author of a Key to the Geology of the Globe.

=Owen, Robert Dale.= _S._, 1801-1877. A prominent writer of New Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish socialist. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel; Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next. _See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42._ _Lip._

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=Packard, Alpheus Spring.= _Me._, 1839- ----. A naturalist of eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from 1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. _Est. Ho._

=Packard, Frederick Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1794-1867. A Philadelphia writer, editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible Dictionary, include his most important writings.

=Packard, John Hooker.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. Son of F. A. Packard, _supra_. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflammation; Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing. _Lip._

=Packard, Lewis Richard.= _Pa._, 1836-1884. Son of F. A. Packard, _supra_. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale University from 1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.

=Packard, Silas Sadler.= _Ms._, 1826-1898. An educator who founded a business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s Bookkeeping Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial Arithmetic; New Manual of Bookkeeping.

=Paddock, Benjamin Henry.= _Ct._, 1828-1891. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in the Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. _Ap._

=Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia.= 18-- - ----. In the Toils; The Fate of Madame la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. _Fo._

=Page, Charles Edward.= _Me._, 1840- ----. A physician of Boston. How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.

=Page, Charles Grafton.= _Ms._, 1812-1868. An examiner in the Patent Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.

=Page, David Perkins.= _N. H._, 1810-1845. A once prominent educator of Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long popular.

=Page, Emily Rebecca.= _Vt._, 1834-1862. A verse-writer of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily of the Valley.

=Page, Richard Channing Moore.= _Va._, 1841-1898. A physician of New York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer. Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery, Lee’s Army; Chart of Physical Diagnosis.

=Page, Thomas Jefferson.= _Va._, 1808-1899. A naval officer in the service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.

=Page, Thomas Nelson.= _Va._, 1853- ----. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a singular charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates; On Newfound River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime Stories; Essays, Social and Political; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; Befo’ de War (with A. C. Gordon, _supra_). _Har. Scr._

=Paige, Lucius Robinson.= _Ms._, 1802-1896. A Universalist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently filled several offices of trust in Cambridge. Commentary on the New Testament; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register; History of Hardwick, Massachusetts. _Hou._

=Paine, Elijah.= _Vt._, 1796-1853. A jurist and legal writer of New York city. Paine’s Reports; Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the State of New York (with W. Duer, _supra_).

=Paine, Halbert Eleazar.= _O._, 1826- ----. A Federal army officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer in Washington, whose Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices is a much-valued work. _Lit._

=Paine, Harriet Eliza.= “E. Chester.” _Ms._, 1845- ----. A Boston educator. Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls. _Hou._

=Paine, Martyn.= _Vt._, 1794-1877. A physician of New York city. Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion; Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished from Materialism; Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defence of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia Medica; Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Paine, Robert.= _N. C._, 1799-1882. A prominent Methodist bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography.

=Paine, Robert Treat.= _Ms._, 1773-1811. A once noted verse-writer of Boston whose spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has preserved his memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary pursuits, and received large sums for his poems, among which are, The Invention of Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted and conventional, with the exception of the song named above. His collected Verse and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Paine, Thomas.= _E._, 1737-1809. A celebrated political and deistical writer of English birth who came to America in 1774, and in 1776 issued his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which was of great service to the American cause. In the American Crisis, published in numbers, 1776-83, he continued his defence of America. His other works include, The Rights of Man, a reply to Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution”; The Age of Reason, a work inferior to his other writings in matter and style, and fiercely assailed by the religious sentiment of his day. His works have been ably edited by M. D. Conway (1894-95), _supra_. _See Lives by Chatham, Cobbett, Rickman, G. Chalmers, G. Vale, Sherwin, M. D. Conway; Atlantic Monthly, July, November, and December, 1859; Nineteenth Century, March, 1879; McMaster’s History of the People of the United States, Watson’s Men and Times of the Revolution; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 43._ _Put._

=Paine, Timothy Otis.= _Me._, 1824-1895. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Elmwood, Massachusetts. Solomon’s Temple and Capitol; Idolatrous High Places. _Hou._

=Palfrey= [pawl´fri], =Francis Winthrop.= _Ms._, 1831-1889. Son of J. G. Palfrey, _infra_. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy in Boston. Antietam and Fredericksburg; Memoir of William Francis Bartlett. _Hou. Scr._

=Palfrey, John Gorham.= _Ms._, 1796-1881. A Unitarian clergyman in Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University, 1831-37, subsequently a member of Congress, and postmaster of Boston, 1861-67. His literary reputation rests upon his History of New England, a painstaking, accurate work, but not especially attractive in style, and marred by want of perspective. Other works by him are, Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures; The Relation between Judaism and Christianity. _Hou. Lit._

=Palfrey, Sarah Hammond.= “E. Foxton.” _Ms._, 1823- ----. Daughter of J. G. Palfrey, _supra_. A novelist and verse-writer of Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises, Prémices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she has published Katharine Morne; Herman, or Young Knighthood. _Le._

=Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1815-1887. A physician who was medical professor in the University of Michigan from 1852. Homœopathy, What Is It?; The Treatment of the Science and Practice of Medicine; Epidemic Cholera; Temperance Teachings of Science; Diarrhœa and Dysentery.

=Palmer, Mrs. Anna [Campbell].= “Mrs. George Archibald.” _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A writer of Elmira, New York. The Summerville Prize; Little Brown Seed; Lally Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; Verses from a Mother’s Corner.

=Palmer, Benjamin Morgan.= _S. C._, 1818-1902. A Presbyterian minister of New Orleans. Life and Letters of James Thornwell, _infra_; Sermons; The Family in its Civil and Churchly Aspects; Formation of Character; The Broken Home; Theology of Prayer.

=Palmer, Elihu.= _Ct._, 1764-1806. A writer of New York city who was in his early career a Congregational minister, but became a deist and a political agitator. The Principles of Nature; Prospect or View of the Moral World from 1804.

=Palmer, Mrs. Frances [Purdy].= N. Y., 1839- ----. A journalist and lecturer of Providence who has published A Dead Level, and Other Episodes.

=Palmer, George Herbert.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard University. He has published The New Education, and an English translation of the Odyssey in rhythmic prose. _Hou. Lit._

=Palmer, Mrs. Henrietta [Lee].= _Md._, 1834- ----. Wife of J. W. Palmer, _infra_. The Stratford Gallery, or the Shakespeare Sisterhood; Home Life in the Bible; The Heroines of Shakespeare.

=Palmer, Horatio Richmond.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. Elements of Musical Composition; Theory of Music.

=Palmer, John Williamson.= _Md._, 1825- ----. A physician and littérateur of Baltimore and subsequently of New York city. The Queen’s Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving; After His Kind, a novel; The Golden Dagon, or Up and Down the Irrawaddi; The New and the Old, or California and India.

=Palmer, Julius Auboineau.= _Ms._, 1840-1899. About Mushrooms; Memories of Hawaii; One Voyage and its Consequences; Mushrooms of America; Again in Hawaii. _Le. Lo. Wn._

=Palmer, Lynde.= _See Peebles, Mrs._

=Palmer, Mrs. Phœbe Worrell.= _N. Y._, 1807-1874. A Wesleyan evangelist of New York city, whose writing is mainly concerned with the doctrine of perfection. The Way of Holiness; Entire Devotion; Faith and its Effect; Promises of the Father; Four Years in the Old World; Pioneer Experiences. _See Life and Letters of, 1876._

=Palmer, Ray.= _R. I._, 1808-1887. A Congregational clergyman of Albany, widely known as a writer of hymns, the most famous of which is, “My Faith Looks up to Thee.” Home, or the Unlost Paradise; Spiritual Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and Poems; Hymns of My Holy Hours; Remember Me; Voices of Hope and Gladness. _Bar. Le. Ran._

=Palmer, William Pitt.= _Ms._, 1805-1884. An insurance president of New York city known also as a verse-writer. Light; Echoes of Half a Century, a collection of poems.

=Pancoast, Joseph.= _N. J._, 1805-1882. An eminent surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, 1838-74. Operative Surgery; Essays and Lectures; System of Anatomy. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Pancoast, Seth.= _Pa._, 1823-1889. A Philadelphia physician, professor in Pennsylvania Medical College, 1854-62. The Cabala; Consumption; Ladies’ Medical Guide; Boyhood’s Perils; Bright’s Disease.

=Pansy.= _See Alden, Mrs._

=Parish, Elijah.= _Ct._, 1762-1825. A Congregational minister, pastor at Byfield, Massachusetts, 1787-1825. He was co-author with Jedediah Morse, _supra_, of several geographical works, and wrote a New System of Modern Geography. _See Sermons of, with Memoir, 1826._

=Park, Edwards Amasa.= _R. I._, 1808-1900. A Congregational clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts, professor in the Theological Seminary there, 1835-1881. Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement; Discourses on Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious Character; Lives of S. Hopkins, _supra_, N. Emmons, _supra_, B. B. Edwards, _supra_, S. H. Taylor, _infra_, W. B. Homer.

=Park, Roswell.= _Ct._, 1807-1869. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president and chancellor of Racine College, 1852-63. Sketch of the History of West Point; Jerusalem, and Other Poems; Pantology, or Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge.

=Park, Roswell.= _Ct._, 1852- ----. A professor of surgery in the University of Buffalo from 1883 who has published Lectures on Surgical Pathology.

=Parke, John.= _Del._, 1754-1789. An officer in the American army during the Revolution, who published The Lyric Works of Horace. The translation, in rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washington, and in it the names of American patriots were substituted for those of the Roman worthies.

=Parke, John Grubb.= _Pa._, 1827-1900. A soldier of distinction who was superintendent of the United States Military Academy in 1887, and was retired from active service in 1889. United States Laws Relating to Public Works; Laws Relating to the Construction of Bridges over Navigable Waters.

=Parker, Edward Griffin.= _Ms._, 1825-1868. A lawyer of New York city. The Golden Age of American Oratory; Reminiscences of Rufus Choate.

=Parker, Edwin Pond.= _Me._, 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, pastor of the South Church from 1860, Book of Praise; Memorial of H. Bushnell, _supra_; The Ministry of Natural Beauty.

=Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowber [Chandler].= “Bessie Chandler.” _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A writer of Batavia, New York, who has contributed much to magazines. A Woman who Failed and Others. _Rob._

=Parker, Foxhall Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1821-1879. A commodore in the United States navy. Fleet Tactics under Steam; The Naval Howitzer Afloat; The Naval Howitzer Ashore; The Fleets of the World; The Battle of Mobile Bay; Elia, or Spain Fifty Years Ago, a translation from the Spanish.

=Parker, Francis Wayland.= _N. H._, 1837-1902. A prominent educator of Chicago, principal of Cook County Normal School, and formerly supervisor of the Boston schools. Talks on Teaching; The Practical Teacher; Course in Arithmetic; How to Teach Geography. _Ap._

=Parker, Sir [Horatio] Gilbert.= _Ont._, 1859- ----. A popular novelist of Canadian birth. Pierre and His People; An Adventurer of the North; A Romany of the Snows; A Lover’s Diary; When Valmond came to Pontiac; The Seats of the Mighty; The Pomp of the Lavillettes; The Battle of the Strong. _Hou. St._

=Parker, Mrs. Helen Fitch.= _N. Y._, 1827-1874. Wife of H. W. Parker, _infra_. Sunrise and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New World; Rambles After Land Shells; Missions and Martyrs of Madagascar; Frank’s Search for Sea Shells; Constance of Aylmer, a tale; Blind Florette; Arthur’s Aquarium.

=Parker, Henry Webster.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. Son of S. Parker, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of mental science in Iowa College from 1879. The Story of a Soul, a poem; Verse.

=Parker, James Cutler Dunn.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. Nephew of R. G. Parker, _infra_. A Boston musician. Manual of Harmony; Theoretical and Practical Harmony.

=Parker, Joel.= _N. H._, 1795-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts, professor of law at Harvard University, 1847-75. The War Power of Congress; The Right of Secession; The Non-Extension of Slavery; Constitutional Law; Revolution and Construction; The Three Powers of Government; Conflict of Decisions.

=Parker, Joel.= _Vt._, 1799-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Lectures on Unitarianism; Invitations to True Happiness; Reasonings of a Pastor; Sermons; Notes on Twelve Psalms, include his principal writings. _Har._

=Parker, Nathan Howe.= 18-- - ----. Iowa as it is in 1855; Kansas and Nebraska Handbook for 1857-58; The Missouri Handbook (1865); Missouri as it is in 1867, are among his various statistical works.

=Parker, Mrs. Permelia Jane [Marsh].= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A writer of Rochester, New York. Toiling and Hoping, a novel; The Boy Missionary; Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The Midnight Cry, a novel of the Millerite delusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; Life of S. F. B. Morse, _supra_; The Morgan Boys; Around the Manger; Andy, the Story of a Troublesome Boy. _Cas. Do._

=Parker, Peter.= _Ms._, 1804-1888. A Congregational missionary and diplomat in China, and after 1857 a resident of Washington. Journal of an Expedition from Singapore to Japan; Statement respecting Hospitals in China.

=Parker, Richard Green.= _Ms._, 1798-1869. An educator of Boston. Natural Philosophy; Aids to English Composition.

=Parker, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1799-1866. A Congregational clergyman of New York State, said to have been the first who suggested the possibility of a railway through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. He published, Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.

=Parker, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1810-1860. A famous Unitarian clergyman of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, whose extremely radical views excited great opposition in his denomination, and resulted in his becoming pastor of an independent congregation in Boston. He was very outspoken in his championship of freedom for the slave, temperance, and the rights of labour, and rapidly came to be a controlling influence in contemporary thought. Since his death his influence has deepened both in America and Europe. He was a prolific writer, but the purely literary value of his work is not great. Miscellaneous Writings; Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular Theology; Occasional Sermons and Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; Additional Sermons and Speeches; Sermons for the Times; Experience as a Minister; West Roxbury Sermons; Prayers; Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Mind; Historic Americans; Views of Religion. His complete works, as edited by Frances Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. _See Lives by John Weiss, 1864, Réville, 1865, O. B. Frothingham, 1874; The Story of Theodore Parker, by Miss Cobbe; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; North American Review, April, 1864._ _A. U. A. Rob._

=Parker, Thomas.= _E._, 1595-1677. A learned Puritan clergyman who was one of the founders of Newbury, Massachusetts, and its first pastor. Parker River, in that region, is named in his honour. Letter on Church Government; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Methodus Gratiæ Diviniæ; Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vitam.

=Parker, Willard.= _N. H._, 1800-1884. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1839-1869. Cystotomy; Spontaneous Fractures; The Concussion of Nerves, are among his professional monographs.

=Parker, William Harwar.= _N. Y._, 1826-1896. Brother of F. Parker, _supra_. An officer in the Confederate navy during the Civil War. Instruction for Naval Light Artillery; Recollections of a Naval Officer. _Scr._

=Parkhurst, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Madison Square Church from 1880, and very prominent as a municipal reformer. Forms of the Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sanskrit; The Blind Man’s Creed; The Pattern on the Mount; Three Gates on a Side; What Would the World Be Without Religion?; The Swiss Guide; Our Fight with Tammany. _Ran. Rev. Scr._

=Parkinson, William.= _Md._, 1774-1848. A Baptist clergyman of New York city. Ecclesiastical History; Public Ministry of the Word; Sermons on Deuteronomy xxxii. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Parkman, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1703-1789. A Congregational pastor in Westborough, Massachusetts, from 1724 till his death. Reformers and Intercessors.

=Parkman, Francis.= _Ms._, 1788-1852. Grandson of E. Parkman, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, author of The Offering of Sympathy.

=Parkman, Francis.= _Ms._, 1823-1893. Son of F. Parkman, _supra_. The foremost of American historians. He was born in Boston, was a graduate of Harvard in 1844, and in 1846 explored the wilderness beyond the Rocky Mountains, The Oregon Trail resulting from this journey. For many years he was partially blind, but as far as possible continued the historical work which he was meditating, while as a relaxation he devoted much time to horticulture and published a Book of Roses in 1866. The work of his life was the series of historical narratives called France and England in North America, begun in 1864 and completed in 1892. The work includes, in their order, Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada; Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.; A Half Century of Conflict; Montcalm and Wolfe. The Conspiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel to the work, though first issued in 1857. The picturesque charm of his style has been widely acknowledged, while his scholarship has never been questioned. _See Life and Uncollected Papers, by Farnham; Life by H. D. Sedgwick, 1904; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874, May, 1894; Canadian Magazine, October, 1884; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June, 1895; Vedder’s American Writers._ _Lit._

=Parkman, George.= _Ms._, 1791-1849. Grandson of E. Parkman, _supra_. A Boston physician who published Insanity and the Management of the Insane. _See Trial of Webster for the Murder of Dr. Parkman, 1850._

=Parks, Leighton.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston (1878-1904), and later of New York. His Star in the East; Winning of the Soul, and Other Sermons. _Dut. Hou._

=Parley, Peter.= _See Goodrich, S. G._