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=Parloa, Maria.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lecturer and writer upon domestic economy, especially upon the science of food preparation. First Principles of Household Management and Cookery; Kitchen Companion; The Young Housekeeper; New Cook Book and Marketing Guide. _Est. Hou._

=Parrish, Edward.= _Pa._, 1822-1872. Son of Joseph Parrish, 1st, _infra_. An educator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and president of Swarthmore College, 1868-70. Introduction to Practical Pharmacy; The Phantom Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing Leaves; Essay on Education in the Society of Friends.

=Parrish, John.= _Md._, 1729-1807. A Quaker preacher of Pennsylvania noted as an early opponent of slavery, who published Remarks on the Slavery of the Black Race.

=Parrish, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1779-1840. Nephew of J. Parrish, _supra_. An eminent Philadelphia physician who was the author of Practical Observations on Strangulated Hernia. _See Memoir by G. B. Wood._

=Parrish, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1818-1891. Son of Joseph Parrish, _supra_. A physician of Burlington, New Jersey, famous as an authority upon the treatment of inebriates. Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical Standpoint.

=Parry, Charles Christopher.= _E._, 1823-1890. A botanist of Davenport, Iowa, among whose writings are, Botanical Observations in Western Wyoming; Botanical Observations in Southern Utah.

=Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora [Smith] [Dana].= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A writer of Albany whose books were published under the name of Mrs. William Starr Dana. How to Know the Wild Flowers; According to Season; Plants and Their Children. _Am. Scr._

=Parsons, Frank.= _N. J._, 1855- ----. A lawyer of Boston. The World’s Best Books; Our Country’s Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.

=Parsons, George Frederic.= _E._, 1840- ----. A journalist of New York city. Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in California; Middle Ground, a novel.

=Parsons, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1705-1776. A Presbyterian minister of Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in whose house that famous preacher died. Lectures on Justification; Good News from a Far Country, said to be the first book published in New Hampshire; Sixty Sermons; Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery the Purchase of Christ. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Parsons, Theophilus.= _Ms._, 1750-1813. A jurist of Newburyport and after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801. Commentaries on the Law of the United States; The Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet of 1777. _See Memoir by his son._

=Parsons, Theophilus.= _Ms._, 1797-1882. Son of T. Parsons, _supra_. A noted legal writer, Dane professor of Law in Harvard University from 1847, and an eminent Swedenborgian thinker. Treatise on the Law of Contracts; Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws of Business; Maritime Law; Law of Promissory Notes; Principles of the Law of Partnership; The Law of Marine Insurance; Treatise on the Law of Partnership; Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a United States Citizen; Memoir of Chief Justice Parsons, _supra_; The Ministry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The Infinite and the Finite; Essays; Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg; The Mystery of Life. _Lip. Lit._

=Parsons, Thomas William.= _Ms._, 1819-1892. A poet of Boston who for some years practised his profession of dentistry there. The quality of his writing is uneven, but in such poems as the Lines on a Bust of Dante, and When Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His work includes a much-admired though incomplete translation in English verse of Dante’s Divina Commedia, of which an edition was issued in 1893, with introduction by C. E. Norton, _supra_, and memorial sketch by Miss Guiney, _supra_; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; Poems (1893). _See Atlantic Monthly; Stedman’s Poets of America; Hovey’s Seaward, an Elegy._ _Hou._

=Parsons, Usher.= _Me._, 1788-1868. A surgeon of Providence. The Art of Making Anatomic Preparations; Prize Dissertations; Sailors’ Physician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; Life of Sir William Pepperell.

=Partington, Mrs.= _See Shillaber._

=Parton, James.= _E._, 1822-1891. A popular littérateur of English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter part of his life resided in Newburyport. The permanent value of his writing is not great, with the possible exception of his Life of Voltaire. His other works include, Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry; Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People’s Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; Topics of the Times (1871). _See New England Magazine, January, 1893._ _Cr. Har. Hou._

=Parton, Mrs. Sarah Payson [Willis] [Eldridge].= “Fanny Fern.” _Me._, 1811-1872. Wife of J. Parton, _supra_, and sister of N. P. Willis, _infra_. A once popular but now neglected writer who for some sixteen years contributed a weekly article to The New York Ledger. Her writing was fresh and piquant in style, but wholly ephemeral in character. Rose Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a novel more or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; Folly as it Flies; Ginger Snaps; Caper Sauce. _See Memoir by J. Parton, supra._

=Partridge, William Ordway.= _F._, 1861- ----. A sculptor of Milton, Massachusetts. Art for America; The Technique of Sculpture; The Song Life of a Sculptor. _Gi. Rob._

=Parvin, Theodore Sutton.= _N. J._, 1817-1901. An educator of Iowa, professor in Iowa University, 1859-70. History of Iowa; History of Templary in Iowa.

=Parvin, Theophilus.= _Ar._, 1829-1898. A Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, who was author of The Science and Art of Obstetrics.

=Paschall, George Washington.= _Ga._, 1812-1878. A jurist of Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence in Georgetown College. Annotated Digest of Texas Laws; Decisions of Texas Supreme Court; Annotated Constitution of the United States.

=Patten, Claudius Buchanan.= 1828-1886. A banker of Boston who published, in 1885, England as Seen by an American Banker. _Lo._

=Patten, George Washington.= _R. I._, 1808-1882. Son of W. Patten, _infra_. An officer in the United States army who wrote the noted lyrics, The Seminole’s Reply; Joys that We’ve Tasted. His published books include, Army Manual; Infantry Tactics; Cavalry Drill; Voices of the Border, a volume of verse.

=Patten, Simon Nelson.= _Il._, 1852- ----. A professor of political economy in the University of Pennsylvania from 1888. The Stability of Prices; The Consumption of Wealth; Economic Basis of Protection; Principles of Rational Taxation; Educational Value of Political Economy; Theory of Dynamic Economics; The Premises of Political Economy; The Theory of Social Forces.

=Patten, William.= _Ms._, 1763-1839. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island. Christianity the True Religion; Reminiscences of Samuel Hopkins, _supra_.

=Patterson, Christopher Stuart.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of the law of real estate in the University of Pennsylvania from 1887. Memoir of Theodore Cuyler; Railway Accident Law; Federal Restraints on State Action; The United States and the State under the Constitution.

=Patterson, Robert.= _I._, 1743-1824. A professor of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, 1779-1814, and director of the Philadelphia Mint. The Newtonian System; Treatise on Arithmetic.

=Patterson, Robert.= _I._, 1829- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, California, from 1880. The Fables of Infidelity and the Facts of Faith; The American Sabbath; The Sabbath: Scientific, American, and Christian; Christianity the Only Republican Religion; Christ’s Testimony to the Scriptures; Egypt’s Place in History.

=Patterson, Robert Mayne.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. History of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia; Paradise; Visions of Heaven; Elijah the Favored Man; History of the Synod of Pennsylvania.

=Patton, Alfred Spencer.= _E._, 1825-1888. A Baptist minister of Utica, and subsequently editor, in New York city, of The Baptist Weekly. Light in the Valley; My Joy and Crown; Kincaid, the Hero Missionary; The Losing and Taking of Mansoul.

=Patton, Francis Landey.= _Ba._, 1843- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, president of Princeton College from 1888. Inspiration of the Scriptures; Summary of Christian Doctrine.

=Patton, Jacob Harris.= _Pa._, 1812-1903. An historical writer of New York city. Concise History of the American People; Yorktown, 1781-1881; The Democratic Party: its History and Influence; Brief History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Natural Resources of the United States; Political Economy for American Youth; Four Hundred Years of American History; Political Parties in the United States. _Fo. Lov._

=Patton, William.= _Pa._, 1798-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, founder of the Union Theological Seminary. The Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients; The Judgment of Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture; Jesus of Nazareth; Bible Principles and Bible Characters.

=Patton, William Weston.= _N. Y._, 1821-1889. Grandson of W. Patton, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman in New York city, and president of Howard University from 1877. Spiritual Victory; Prayer and its Remarkable Answers; The Young Man’s Friend; Conscience and Law; Slavery and Infidelity. _Fa._

=Paul, John.= _See Webb, C. H._

=Paulding, James Kirke.= _Md._, 1779-1860. A versatile and once popular writer of New York city, the friend of Irving, and co-author with him of The Salmagundi Papers in 1807. He was secretary of the navy, 1837-41. His various writings include: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, his most successful work; Salmagundi, a second series, 1819; Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, a novel; John Bull in America; The Dutchman’s Fireside; Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a travesty of the Lay of the Last Minstrel; Westward Ho; Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham; The Puritan and his Daughter; The New Mirror for Travellers; The Backwoodsman, a poem; The Bucktails, a Comedy; Letters from the South; Life of George Washington; Slavery in America, a spirited defence of that institution. _See Literary Life of Paulding by his son; Appletons’ American Biography._ _Scr._

=Payne, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1830-1899. A Methodist clergyman and educator, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1876-88. The Social Glass and Christian Obligation; Daniel, the Uncompromising Young Man; Guides and Guards in Character-Building; Methodism, its History and Results; Temperance; Women and their Work in Methodism. _Meth._

=Payne, Daniel Alexander.= _S. C._, 1811-1893. A Methodist bishop of African descent, president of Wilberforce University, 1865-76. Domestic Education; History of the African Methodist Church; Recollections of Men and Things.

=Payne, John Howard.= _N. Y._, 1792-1852. A dramatist and actor of New York city in whose drama of Clari, the Maid of Milan, occurs the famous lyric, Home, Sweet Home, his chief claim to remembrance. From 1841 till his death he was United States consul at Tunis, his remains being removed from there to Washington in 1883. His best plays include, Brutus; Virginius; Charles II. _See American Magazine of History, May, 1881; Biographical Sketch by Brainard, 1885._

=Payne, William Harold.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. An educator of Tennessee, chancellor of the University of Nashville, and president of Peabody Normal College from 1888. School Supervision; Outlines of Educational Doctrine; Contributions to the Science of Education; Lectures on Pedagogy. _Ap._

=Payne, Will[iam Hudson].= _Il._, 1865- ----. A journalist of Chicago. Jerry the Dreamer, a novel. _Har._

=Payne, William Morton.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. An educator and literary critic of Chicago, professor of physical science in the High School. Our New Education; Little Leaders. _Wy._

=Payson, Edward.= _N. H._, 1783-1827. A Congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of Sermons were for a long time widely popular in the religious world. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Payson, Edward.= 1814-1890. A writer of Deering, Maine. The Law of Equivalents in its Relations to Political and Social Ethics; Doctor Tom; The Maine Law in the Balance. _Hou. Le._

=Peabody, Andrew Preston.= _Ms._, 1811-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of eminence, pastor of a church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1833-60, and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard University, 1860-81. A conservative, tolerant thinker, greatly beloved by all within the sphere of his influence. Sermons of Consolation; Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Christianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral Philosophy; Faults and Graces of Conversation; Sermons for Children; Christianity and Science; King’s Chapel Sermons; Reminiscences of European Travel; Christian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Sermons; Building a Character; Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known; Harvard Reminiscences; translations of the ethical writings of Cicero and Plutarch’s Delay of Divine Justice. _A. U. A. Hou. Lit. Rob._

=Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer.= _Ms._, 1804-1894. A noted educator of Boston, very active in awakening American interest in the kindergarten system, and in her early life associated in teaching with A. B. Alcott, _supra_, as related in her Record of a School. Her other works include: Chronological History of the United States; Kindergarten Guide; Æsthetic Papers; Lectures to Kindergartners; First Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr. Channing; Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers. _Le. Rob._

=Peabody, Ephraim.= _N. H._, 1807-1856. Cousin of A. P. Peabody, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, rector of King’s Chapel, 1846-56. Christian Days and Thoughts; Sermons (with Memoir by S. A. Eliot), 1857.

=Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. Son of E. Peabody, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, Parkman professor of theology at Harvard University, 1880-86, and Plummer professor of Christian morals from 1886. Mornings in the College Chapel. _Hou._

=Peabody, Oliver William Bourne.= _N. H._, 1799-1848. A lawyer and journalist of Boston, subsequently a Unitarian clergyman and pastor of a church in Burlington, Vermont, 1845-48. He published Lives of Generals Sullivan and Putnam, in Sparks’s American Biography, and an edition of Shakespeare with Life and Notes.

=Peabody, William Bourne Oliver.= _N. H._, 1799-1847. Twin brother of O. W. B. Peabody, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of a church in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1820-47. He was the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton Mather, Brainerd, and Oglethorpe, in Sparks’s American Biography; and Report on Birds of the Commonwealth. As a verse-writer he is best represented by such poems as Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; Winter Night.

=Peacock, Thomas Brower.= _O._, 1852- ----. A verse-writer of Topeka, whose ambitious lines are quite without poetic merit. The Rhyme of the Border War; The Vendetta; Poems of the Plains. _Put._

=Peale, Charles Wilson.= _Md._, 1741-1827. An artist, inventor, and miscellaneous writer of Philadelphia, among whose works are, On Building Wooden Bridges; Domestic Happiness; Economy in Fuel. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Biography of, by R. Peale, infra; Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders._

=Peale, Rembrandt.= _Pa._, 1778-1860. Son of C. W. Peale, _supra_. An artist of Philadelphia. Notes on Italy; Portfolio of an Artist; Graphics. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists._

=Pearson, Jonathan.= _N. H._, 1813-1887. A genealogist who was professor of chemistry and subsequently of botany at Union College from 1839. Early Records of the County of Albany; Genealogy of the First Settlers of Albany; Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady.

=Pease, Theodore Claudius.= _N. Y._, 1853-1893. A Congregational clergyman of Malden, Massachusetts. The Christian Ministry. _Hou._

=Peaselee, Edmund Randolph.= _N. H._, 1814-1878. A physician of New York city, medical professor in several institutions. Human Histology; Ovarian Tumors. _Ap._

=Peattie, Mrs. Elia Wilkinson.= _Mch._, 1862- ----. A journalist of Chicago. The Judge, a novel; A Trip through Wonderland, a volume of Alaska travel; With Scrip and Staff, a story of the Children’s Crusade; A Mountain Woman. _Wy._

=Peck, George.= _N. Y._, 1797-1876. A Methodist clergyman of prominence who was editor of several denominational journals. Christian Perfection; Early Methodism; Wyoming and its History; Universalism Examined; History of the Apostles and Evangelists; Rule of Faith; Manly Character, include his chief works. _See Life and Times of, by himself._ _Meth._

=Peck, George Washington.= _Ms._, 1817-1859. A journalist of Boston and New York. Melbourne and the Chinchu Islands.

=Peck, George Wesley.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. Great-nephew of J. T. Peck, _infra_. A Methodist clergyman of Western New York. The Realization and Benefit of Ideals; Walk in the Light.

=Peck, George Wilbur.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A Wisconsin politician, successively mayor of Milwaukee and governor of Wisconsin. Peck’s Bad Boy; Compendium of Fun, and other works of his, represent almost the lowest depths of vulgarity to which American humour has descended.

=Peck, Harry Thurston.= _Ct._, 1856- ----. A professor of Latin at Columbia College and a literary critic. Latin Pronunciation; The Semitic Theory of Creation; The Personal Equation. _Har._

=Peck, Jesse Truesdell.= _N. Y._, 1811-1883. Brother of G. Peck, _supra_. A bishop in the Methodist church. The Central Idea of Christianity; The True Woman; What Must I Do to be Saved?; The Great Republic. _Meth._

=Peck, John Lord.= 18-- - ----. The Ultimate Generalization of Science; The Political Economy of Democracy and Capital and Labor.

=Peck, John Mason.= _Ct._, 1789-1858. A Baptist general missionary in the Western States. New Guide for Emigrants to the West (1836); Father Clark, or the Pioneer Preacher.

=Peck, Samuel Minturn.= _Al._, 1854- ----. A popular lyric poet and physician of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cap and Bells; Rings and Love Knots; Rhymes and Roses; Fair Women of To-Day. _Sto._

=Peck, William Guy.= _Ct._, 1820-1892. A soldier and mathematician, professor in Columbia College from 1857. Elementary Mechanics; Popular Astronomy; and a complete course of mathematical text-books.

=Peck, William Henry.= _Ga._, 1830-189-. An educator of Georgia and a prolific writer of sensational novels remarkable for an entire absence of any literary quality. Among them are The McDonalds, or the Ashes of Southern Homes; The Confederate Flag of the Ocean; The Brother’s Vengeance. _See Davidson’s Living Writers of the South._

=Pedder, James.= _E._, 1775-1859. An agricultural writer who came to America in 1832, and settled in Philadelphia as a sugar manufacturer. From 1844 to 1859 he edited The Boston Cultivator. The Farmer’s Land Measure; The Yellow Shoestrings; Frank.

=Peebles, Mrs. Mary Louise [Parmelee].= “Lynde Palmer.” _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A writer of religious juvenile tales and other works, among them being The Little Captain; Helps Over Hard Places; The Good Fight; Where Honour Leads; A Question of Honour, a story; The Magnet Stones; The Two Blizzards. _Do. Kt._

=Peers, Benjamin Orrs.= _Va._, 1800-1842. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Kentucky, founder of the common school system of Kentucky. American Education.

=Peet, Harvey Prindle.= _Ct._, 1794-1873. A noted educator of deaf-mutes in New York city. Course of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb; Legal Rights of the Deaf and Dumb; History of the United States, include his most important writings.

=Peet, Stephen Denison.= _O._, 1830- ----. A Congregational minister, eminent as an anthropologist. The Ashtabula Disaster; History of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture in America; History of Early Missions in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primitive Symbolisms; The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._

=Peffer, William Alfred.= _Pa._, 1831- ----. A prominent lawyer and journalist of Kansas, and well known as a Populist Congressman. Tariff Manual; The Way Out.

=Peirce= [pêrss], =Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1778-1831. A merchant of Salem, Massachusetts, subsequently librarian of Harvard University, who published a History of Harvard University from 1636 to the American Revolution.

=Peirce, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1809-1880. Son of B. Peirce, _supra_. An eminent mathematician, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University, 1833-67. Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise on Sound; Curves, Functions, and Forces; Ideality in the Physical Sciences, compromise his most important works.

=Peirce, Benjamin Osgood.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. Kinsman of preceding. A professor of physics at Harvard University from 1884, and author of Theory of the Newtonian Potential Functions. _Gi._

=Peirce, Bradford Kinney.= _Vt._, 1819-1889. A Methodist clergyman and journalist, editor of Zion’s Herald, 1872-88. Bible Scholar’s Manual; The Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The Word of God Opened; A Half Century with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an Inventor; Audubon’s Adventures; Stories from Life which the Chaplain Told; The Chaplain with the Children; The Young Shetlander and His Home; Hymns of the Higher Life. _Meth._

=Peirce, Charles Sanders.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. Son of B. Peirce, 2d, _supra_. A physician and lecturer on logic. Studies in Logic; Photometric Researches.

=Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Peirce Family of the Old Colony; Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy; Contributions, Biographical, etc.

=Peirce, James Mills.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. Son of B. Peirce, 2d, _supra_. An educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard University from 1867. Text-Book of Analytical Geometry; Elements of Logarithms, are among his technical works. _Gi._

=Peirson, Mrs. Lydia Jane [Wheeler].= _Ct._, 1802-1862. A verse-writer of Adrian, Michigan. Forest Leaves, and Other Poems; The Forest Minstrel. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Pellew, [William] George.= _E._, 1859-1892. A littérateur of New York city. Jane Austen’s Novels, a Dissertation; In Castle and Cabin, or Talks in Ireland; Woman and the Commonwealth; Life of John Jay. _Hou._

=Pemberton, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1704-1777. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the opening of the Revolution. Sermons on Several Subjects; Practical Discourses; Salvation by Grace; Occasional Sermons. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Pendleton, Edmund Monroe.= 1815-1884. A physician who published Scientific Agriculture (1876).

=Pendleton, James Madison.= _Va._, 1811-1891. A Baptist clergyman of Upland, Pennsylvania. Three Reasons Why I Am a Baptist; Church Manual; Christian Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Principles of Baptists; Atonement of Christ. _Bap._

=Pendleton, Louis [Beauregard].= _Ga._, 1861- ----. A novelist of Philadelphia. Bewitched, and Other Stories; In the Wire Grass, a novel of Southern Georgia; King Tom and the Runaways, a juvenile tale; The Wedding Garment, a Tale of the Life to Come; The Sons of Ham; Corona of the Nantahalas; In the Okefenokee, a juvenile tale. _Ap. Cas. Mer. Rob._

=Pendleton, William Nelson.= _Va._, 1809-1883. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Virginia, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, and subsequently rector of Grace Church, Lexington, Virginia. Science a Witness for the Bible. _See Memoirs of, by E. P. Lee._ _Lip._

=Penhallow, Samuel.= _E._, 1665-1726. A citizen of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, chief justice of New Hampshire, 1717-26. He published in 1726 a realistic and valuable History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Penick, Charles Clifton.= _Va._, 1843- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the West African Mission. He was consecrated in 1877, resigned in 1883, and is now (1897) a general agent at Baltimore of the commission on work among the coloured people. More than a Prophet, or Chapters on St. John the Evangelist.

=Penn, Arthur.= _See Matthews, J. B._

=Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth [Robins].= _Pa._, 1855- ----. Niece of C. G. Leland, _supra_, and wife of J. Pennell, _infra_. A writer who has lived in London for many years. Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Canterbury Pilgrimage; Two Pilgrims’ Progress; Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Our Journey to the Hebrides; To Gipsyland; Play in Provence; The Feasts of Autolycus. _Cent. Har. Mer. Rob. Scr._

=Pennell, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1859- ----. An artist living in London who has illustrated his wife’s books, and published Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; The Jew at Home; Modern Illustration. _Ap. Mac._

=Penny, Virginia.= _Ky._, 1826- ----. An educator who has written much in relation to wider opportunities for women. The Employment of Women; Five Hundred Occupations Adapted to Women; Think and Act.

=Pennypacker, Isaac Rusling.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Gettysburg, and Other Poems.

=Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker.= _Pa._, 1843- ----. A jurist of Philadelphia. Annals of Phœnixville; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports; Historical and Biographical Sketches.

=Pentecost, George Frederick.= _Il._, 1843- ----. A Congregational minister in Brooklyn, 1881-90, and subsequently an evangelist in America and England. The Angel in the Marble; In the Volume of the Book; Out of Egypt; The Christian and the Modern Dance; Bible Studies; The Gospel of Luke; Grace Abounding in the Forgiveness of Sins. _Bar. Rev._

=Pepper, George Dana Boardman.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Colby University from 1882. Outlines of Theology.

=Pepper, William.= _Pa._, 1843-1898. An eminent Philadelphia physician, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1881-94. Higher Medical Education; Diseases of Children (with J. F. Meigs, _supra_). _Lip._

=Perce, Elbert.= _N. Y._, 1831-1869. A littérateur of New York city. Old Carl the Cooper; The Last of His Name; The Battle Roll; Gulliver Joi: his Three Voyages; and several translations from the Swedish of Carlén.

=Percival, James Gates.= _Ct._, 1795-1856. A verse-writer once popular, but now wholly neglected. His verse is not unmusical, but seldom rises much above mediocrity. Seneca Lake and The Coral Grove are still found lingering in anthologies. Prometheus; Clio; Dream of a Day; Poems, include his poetical works. He was a geologist of some reputation, and published Geological Surveys of Connecticut and Wisconsin. _See Life and Letters, by Julius Ward, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Percy, Florence.= _See Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth._

=Perkins, Charles Callahan.= _Ms._, 1823-1886. A prominent art patron and critic of Boston. Raphael and Michael Angelo; Tuscan Sculptors; Italian Sculptors; Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture; Ghiberti et son école; Art in Education; History of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society. _Hou. Scr._

=Perkins, Eli.= _See Landon._

=Perkins, Mrs. Elmira [Johnson].= _Me._, 1814-1896. A missionary among the Indians in Oregon. Her later life was passed in Boston. Harp of the Willows, a volume of verse.

=Perkins, Frederic Beecher.= _Ct._, 1828-1899. Grandson of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. A librarian. Scrope, or the Lost Library, a novel; Devil Puzzlers, and Other Studies; My Three Conversations with Miss Chester; Life of Dickens; Check List of American Local History, include the more important of his writings.

=Perkins, George Henry.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. A naturalist, State entomologist of Vermont. The Injurious Insects of Vermont; The Flora of Vermont.

=Perkins, George Roberts.= _N. Y._, 1812-1876. An educator of New York State, who published Plane and Solid Geometry, and other mathematical text-books.

=Perkins, James Breck.= _Wis._, 1847- ----. A lawyer of Rochester, New York. France Under Mazarin; France Under the Regency; France under Louis XV. _Hou. Put._

=Perkins, James Handasyd.= _Ms._, 1810-1849. A Unitarian clergyman of Cincinnati, very active in the cause of prison discipline reform. Annals of the West. _See Memoir by his cousin, W. H. Channing, supra._

=Perkins, Justin.= _Ms._, 1805-1869. A Congregational missionary in Persia. Residence of Eight Years in Persia; Missionary Life in Persia.

=Perkins, Maurice.= _Ct._, 1836-1901. A professor of chemistry at Union College from 1865, author of a Manual of Qualitative Analysis.

=Perkins, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1767-1850. A lawyer of Windham, Connecticut. History of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain (1825); General Jackson’s Conduct in the Seminole War; Historical Sketches of the United States.

=Perkins, William Rufus.= _Pa._, 1847-1895. An educator and poet, professor of history in the Iowa State University, 1887-95. He was the author of two careful historical monographs, History of the Trappist Abbey of New Melleray; and History of the Amana Society; and of Eleusis and Lesser Poems, a striking collection of musical meditative verse. _Mg._

=Perrin, Mrs. Martha Chamberlin [Drinker].= _Pa._, 186- - ----. Chansons du Matin. _Put._

=Perrin, Raymond S----.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. The Student’s Dreams; The Religion of Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowledge. _Put._

=Perrine, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1827-1880. A Methodist clergyman, professor for some years in Albion College, Michigan. The Principles of Church Government with Special Application to the Polity of Episcopal Methodism.

=Perry, Amos.= _Ms._, 1812-1899. A Providence writer who was superintendent of the State census in 1865. Carthage and Tunis is his only work of importance.

=Perry, Arthur Latham.= _N. H._, 1830- ----. A professor of history and political economy at Williams College from 1853, and a prominent advocate of free trade. Elements of Political Economy; Introduction to Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; Origins of Williamstown. _Scr._

=Perry, Benjamin Franklin.= _S. C._, 1805-1886. A lawyer of South Carolina, provisional governor of his State at the close of the Civil War. Reminiscences of Public Men; Sketches of Eminent Statesmen (1887).

=Perry, Bliss.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. Son of A. L. Perry, _supra_. Editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1899, and a professor of English literature at Princeton University, 1893-1900. The Plated City; Salem Kittredge, and Other Stories; The Broughton House; Powers at Play. _Ho. Lgs. Scr._

=Perry, Carlotta.= _See Perry, Charlotte._

=Perry, Charlotte Augusta.= “Carlotta Perry.” _Wis._, 1848- ----. A popular verse-writer of Milwaukee. Carlotta Perry’s Poems.

=Perry, Edward Delevan.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A professor of Sanskrit in Columbia College. Indra in the Rigveda; A Sanskrit Primer.

=Perry, Mary Alice.= _Ms._, 1854-1883. A writer of fiction. Esther Pennefather; More Ways Than One. _Har._

=Perry, Nora.= _Ms._, 1832-1896. A poet and littérateur of Boston. Her verse was popular, and had not unfrequently the genuine poetic ring, while her stories for girls were animated and fresh. Her verse includes, After the Ball, and Other Poems; Her Lover’s Friend, and Other Poems; New Songs and Ballads; Legends and Lyrics. Her prose work comprises, The Tragedy of the Unexpected, and Other Stories; For a Woman, a novel; The Youngest Miss Lorton, and Other Stories; A Book of Love Stories; A Rosebud Garden of Girls; A Flock of Girls and their Friends; A Flock of Girls and Boys; Another Flock of Girls; Three Little Daughters of the Revolution; Hope Benham. _Hou. Lit._

=Perry, Rufus Lewis.= _Tn._, 1833-1895. A Baptist clergyman of African descent, widely known as a linguist. Among his various writings is The Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen by Ancient Historians and Poets.

=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= _R. I._, 1845- ----. An educator of Boston. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lieber; From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The Evolution of the Snob; History of Greek Literature. _Ho. Hou._

=Perry, William Stevens.= _R. I._, 1832-1898. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Iowa, prominent among High Churchmen. The Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church; The History of the American Episcopal Church; Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs; Some Summer Days Abroad; The General Ecclesiastical Constitution of the American Church; The American Episcopate. _Wh._

=Peters, Christian Henry Frederick.= _Sd._, 1813-1890. A German astronomer, director of the observatory at Hamilton College, 1858-90, who discovered over forty asteroids. Celestial Charts.

=Peters, Edward Dyer.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A metallurgist who has published Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting.

=Peters, George Nathaniel Henry.= _Pa._, 1825- ----. A Lutheran minister of Ohio. The Theocratic Kingdom of Christ.

=Peters, John Charles.= _N. Y._, 1819-1893. A physician of New York city of note as a bacteriologist. Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System; Diseases of Women; Diseases of the Eye; Notes on Asiatic Cholera; A New Materia Medica, are among his works.

=Peters, Mrs. Phillis [Wheatley].= _Sl._, 1754-1784. A verse-writer of African birth brought to Boston in childhood as a slave. Poems on Various Occasions, Religious and Moral, appeared in London in 1772, and won a fleeting popularity there, the author being regarded as a prodigy. But there is little in her work that should keep it in remembrance. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Peters, Samuel Andrew.= _Ct._, 1735-1826. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford who published a famous General History of Connecticut by a Gentleman of that Province, a curious satirical production, to which may be traced the well-known fable of the Connecticut Blue Laws. Other works of his include a Life of Rev. Hugh Peters; History of Hebron, Connecticut.

=Peterson, Arthur.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. Son of H. Peterson, _infra_. A naval officer who has published Songs of New Sweden.

=Peterson, Charles Jacobs.= _Pa._, 1818-1887. A Philadelphia publisher and novelist, the founder of Peterson’s Magazine. Kate Aylesford; Cruising in the Last War; Military Heroes of the United States; Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Saratoga; Mabel, or Darkness and Dawn; The Old Stone Mansion, include his principal writings.

=Peterson, Frederick.= _Min._, 1859- ----. A physician and verse-writer. Poems and Swedish Translations; In the Shade of Ygdrasil (verse).

=Peterson, Mrs. Hannah [Bouvier].= _Pa._, 1811-1870. First wife of R. E. Peterson, _infra_. Familiar Astronomy.

=Peterson, Henry.= _Pa._, 1818-1891. Cousin of C. J. Peterson, _supra_. A Philadelphia verse-writer, and editor for many years of The Saturday Evening Post. The Modern Job, and Other Poems; Faire-Mount; Bessie’s Lovers; Cæsar, a Dramatic Study.

=Peterson, Robert Evans.= _Pa._, 1812-1894. Brother of H. Peterson, _supra_. A Philadelphia writer whose principal work is The Roman Catholic not the Only True Religion. _Lip._

=Pettingill, Amos.= _N. H._, 1780-1830. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Connecticut. View of the Heavens; The Spirit of Methodism. _See Memoir of, by Hart, 1832._

=Pettingill, John Hancock.= _Vt._, 1815-1887. A Congregational clergyman in Ohio, widely known as an earnest believer in conditional immortality. The Theological Trilemma; Platonism _versus_ Christianity; Bible Terminology; Life Everlasting; The Unspeakable Gift; Views and Reviews in Eschatology.

=Peyton, John Lewis.= _Va._, 1824-1896. A lawyer of Staunton, Virginia, who served as an officer in the Confederate service. Adventures of my Grandfather; History of Augusta County, Virginia; The American Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; Memorials of Nature and Art.

=Phelan, James.= _Mi._, 1856-1891. A Memphis lawyer and journalist. Philip Massinger and his Plays; History of Tennessee. _Hou._

=Phelps, Mrs. Almira [Hart] [Lincoln].= _Ct._, 1793-1884. A noted educator of Baltimore who published many text-books on the natural sciences. Among her works are, Geology for Beginners; Christian Households; Ida Norman, a tale; Familiar Lectures on Botany; Hours with my Pupils. _See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record._ _Lip._

=Phelps, Austin.= _Ms._, 1820-1890. A Congregational clergyman of Andover, Massachusetts, professor of sacred rhetoric in the Theological Seminary there, 1848-79. The Still Hour; The New Birth; The Theory of Preaching; English Style in Public Discourse; The Solitude of Christ; Studies of the Old Testament; Men and Books; My Study, and Other Essays; My Portfolio; My Note-Book. _See Life by his daughter, Mrs. Ward, 1891._ _C. P. S. Lo. Scr._

=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth [Stuart].= _Ms._, 1815-1853. Wife of A. Phelps, _supra_. A writer whose Sunnyside, and A Peep at Number Five, stories descriptive of clerical life, were once widely popular. She wrote, also, Last Sheaf from Sunnyside, and a number of Sunday-school tales, the latter over the signature “H. Trusta.”

=Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart.= Daughter of A. and E. S. Phelps, _supra_. _See Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth._

=Phelps, John Wolcott.= _Vt._, 1813-1885. Stepson of Mrs. Almira Phelps, _supra_. A writer of Brattleboro, Vermont, who was an officer in the United States army in the Mexican War and became a brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War. In 1880 he was the presidential nominee of the American party. Sibylline Leaves; Good Behavior; History of Madagascar; The Fables of Florian in English Verse.

=Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden.= _Ct._, 1816-1895. A Baptist clergyman of New Haven, and subsequently of Hartford. Eloquence of Nature, and Other Poems; Sunlight and Heartlight, and Other Poems; The Poet’s Song for Heart and Home; Bible Lands; Sermons in the Four Quarters of the Globe.

=Phelps, Thomas Stowell.= _Me._, 1822-1901. A rear-admiral in the United States navy who retired in 1885. Reminiscences of Washington Territory (1882).

=Phelps, William Lyon.= _Ct._, 1865- ----. An instructor at Yale University. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement. _Gi._

=Philbrick, Edward Southwick.= _Ms._, 1827-1889. A sanitarian who published American Sanitary Engineering, 1881.

=Philbrick, John Dudley.= _N. H._, 1818-1886. A prominent educator of Boston who published nearly fifty valuable public-school reports, and City School Systems in the United States.

=Philips, Samuel.= _Md._, 1823- ----. A German Reformed clergyman, professor in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Gethsemane and the Cross; The Christian Home; The Voice of Blood; The Communion of Saints.

=Phillips, Barnet.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A journalist of New York city, on the staff of The Times from 1872. The Struggle, a novel; Burning their Ships.

=Phillips, George.= _E._, 1593-1644. A Puritan clergyman, minister at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1630 till his death. He was a noted controversialist of his day, and published a treatise on Infant Baptism.

=Phillips, George Searle.= “January Searle.” _E._, 1818-1889. A writer and lecturer of Yorkshire, England, who, after some years of literary work in the United States, became, in 1873, an inmate of an insane asylum in New Jersey. Chapters in the History of a Life; Life of Ebenezer Elliott; Memoirs of Wordsworth; The Gypsies of the Dane’s Dyke; Chicago and Her Churches.

=Phillips, Henry.= _Pa._, 1838-1895. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of American Colonial Paper Currency; History of American Continental Paper Money; Pleasures of Numismatic Science; Poems from the Spanish and German; Faust, from the German of Chamisso.

=Phillips, Maude Gillette.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. An educator who has published A Popular Manual of English Literature. _Har._

=Phillips, Wendell.= _Ms._, 1811-1884. A celebrated orator of Boston, a vehement opponent of slavery, and an active champion of labor reform and woman-suffrage. The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Contract; Lectures, Orations, and Letters to 1861; Speeches, Lectures, and Addresses; The Scholar in a Republic. _See Lives by G. L. Austin, C. Martyn; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Phillips, Willard.= _Ms._, 1784-1873. A lawyer of Boston. Treatise on the Law of Insurance; Manual of Political Economy; The Law of Patents; The Inventor’s Guide; Protection and Free Trade. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Phin, John.= _S._, 1832- ----. A New York publisher of technical journals. Open-Air Grape Culture; Chemical History of the Creation; Practical Treatise on Lightning Rods; How to Use the Microscope; Workshop Companion; Preparation and Use of Cements and Glue; Dictionary of Practical Agriculture; Trade Secrets and Private Recipes; A Pocket Dictionary of Monetary and Coinage Terms.

=Phœnix, John.= _See Derby, George._

=Phyfe, William Henry Pinkney.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. An author of New York city. How Should I Pronounce? The School Pronouncer; Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced; The Test Pronouncer; Five Thousand Words Commonly Misspelled. _Put._

=Piatt= [pē-ăt´], =Donn.= _O._, 1819-1891. A lawyer and journalist of Washington, and during the Civil War a Federal officer. Sunday Meditations; Memories of the Men who Saved the Union; Poems and Plays; Life of General George H. Thomas; The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah (verse). _See Life of, by C. G. Miller, 1893._ _Clke._

=Piatt, John James.= _Ind._, 1835- ----. Nephew of D. Piatt, _supra_. A poet who was consul at Cork, 1882-93. He has been a prolific writer of verse, but The Morning Street, one of his earlier poems, still ranks as his finest effort. Landmarks; Western Windows; Poems of House and Home; Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley; Poems in Sunshine and Firelight; The Lost Farm, and Other Poems; At the Holy Well; A Dream of Church Windows (a revised edition of Poems of House and Home); The Lost Hunting Ground; Little New World Idyls; Poems by Two Friends (with W. D. Howells, _supra_); The Children Out of Doors; and Nests at Washington (with Mrs. Piatt). His prose is included in Penciled Fly-Leaves; A Return to Paradise. _Clke. Hou. Ls._

=Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan [Bryan].= _Ky._, 1836- ----. Wife of J. J. Piatt, _supra_. A poet whose range of expression is not very wide, but, within its limits, genuine and original. A Woman’s Poems; A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and Other Poems; That New World, and Other Poems; Dramatic Persons and Moods; An Irish Garland; In Primrose Time; The Witch in the Glass; Complete Poems (1894); An Enchanted Castle; Child’s World Ballads. _See Wide-Awake Magazine, November, 1876._ _Clke. Hou. Lgs._

=Picard, George Henry.= _O._, 1850- ----. A physician and novelist of New York city. A Matter of Taste; A Mission Flower; Old Boniface.

=Pick, Bernhard.= _P._, 1842- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, prior to 1884 a Presbyterian minister. Luther as a Hymnist; Historical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ according to Extra-Canonical Sources; Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; The Talmud: What It Is.

=Pickard, Samuel Thomas.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A writer who for many years edited the Portland (Maine) Transcript. Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. _Hou._

=Pickering, Charles.= _Pa._, 1805-1878. A grandson of Timothy Pickering, the noted statesman. A naturalist of eminence. Races of Men and their Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution of Animals and Men; Chronological History of Plants. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Pickering, Edward Charles.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Son of C. Pickering, _supra_. The director of Harvard Observatory at Cambridge, and author of Elements of Physical Manipulation. _Hou._

=Pickering, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1781-1838. The third son of the statesman, Timothy Pickering. A verse-writer of New York who published Ruins of Pæstum; Athens, and Other Poems; The Buckwheat Cake.

=Pickering, John.= _Ms._, 1777-1846. The eldest son of Timothy Pickering. A lawyer of Boston and a linguist of eminence. Greek and English Lexicon; Collection of Words and Phrases Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States; Remarks on the Indian Languages of North America. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Lip._

=Pickering, Octavius.= _Pa._, 1791-1868. Brother of J. Pickering, _supra_. A Boston lawyer who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1822-40; and Life of Timothy Pickering (completed by Upham).

=Pickering, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. Son of C. Pickering, _supra_. An astronomer, professor in Harvard University from 1887. Walking Guide to the White Mountain Range.

=Pickett, Albert James.= _N. C._, 1810-1858. A writer of Montgomery, Alabama, who published a History of Alabama.

=Pierce, Edward Lillie.= _Ms._, 1829-1897. A prominent Boston lawyer. American Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sumner; The Law of Railroads; Enfranchisement and Citizenship. _Lit. Rob._

=Pierce, Frederick Clifton.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. An Illinois writer who has written town histories of Barre and Grafton, Massachusetts, and of Rockford, Illinois; The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce History and Genealogy; Peirce History and Genealogy; Pearse and Pearce Genealogy.

=Pierce, Henry Niles.= _R. I._, 1820-1899. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, consecrated in 1870. The Agnostic, and Other Poems. _Wh._

=Pierpont, John.= _Ct._, 1785-1866. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Hollis Street Church, 1819-45. He wrote a volume of sacred verse, Airs of Palestine, and a number of domestic lyrics, which were very popular, Passing Away being the best known of any. He compiled several school readers, the most noted of which was The American First-Class Book. _See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1866._ _Lip._

=Pierrepont, Edward Willoughby.= _N. Y._, 1860-1885. A chargé d’affaires at Rome at the time of his death. From Fifth Avenue to Alaska.

=Pierson, Arthur Tappan.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A Congregational clergyman of note. Acts of the Holy Spirit; Many Infallible Proofs; The Crisis of Missions; The Miracles of Missions; The Divine Art of Preaching; The Heart of the Gospel; Keys to the Word; Lessons on Prayer, comprise his more important works. _Fu. Ran. Rev._

=Pierson, Mrs. Cornelia [Tuthill].= _Ct._, 1820-1870. Daughter of Mrs. Tuthill, _infra_. Our Little Comfort; Wreaths and Blossoms for the Church; When are we Happiest?; The Belle, the Blue, and the Bigot, are among her works.

=Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox.= _N. Y._, 1817-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman in Kentucky. Thomas Jefferson at Monticello; In the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest. _Ap._

=Pike, Albert.= _Ms._, 1809-1891. A lawyer and journalist of Little Rock, Memphis, and Washington successively, who served as an officer in the Confederate army. His writings include, Hymns to the Gods; Prose Sketches and Poems; Nugæ, a collection of Poems; Arkansas Supreme Court Reports, 1840-45. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Pike, James Shepherd.= _Me._, 1811-1882. A journalist of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1861-66. A Prostrate State; The Restoration of the Currency; The Financial Crisis; Horace Greeley in 1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; The New Puritan: New England Two Hundred Years Ago. _Har._

=Pike, Mrs. Mary Hayden [Green].= _Me._, 1825- ----. A once popular novelist. Ida May; Caste; Agnes; Bond and Free.

=Pilcher, Elijah Homes.= _O._, 1810-1887. A Methodist clergyman of Michigan who wrote a History of Protestantism in Michigan.

=Pilling, James Constantine.= _D. C._, 1840-1895. An ethnologist of distinction in the government service, among whose writings are Bibliographies of the Languages of the North American Indians, of the Eskimoan Languages, of the Siouan, of the Iroquoian, and others.

=Pillsbury, Parker.= _Ms._, 1809-1898. A noted anti-slavery agitator. Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles.

=Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth.= _S. C._, 1812-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Life of General Thomas Pinckney. _Hou._

=Pindar, Susan.= _N. Y._, _c._ 1820-1892. Susan Pindar’s Story Books; Legends of the Flowers.

=Pinkerton, Allan.= _S._, 1819-1884. A Chartist who came to America in 1842 and settled in Chicago, where he founded a famous detective agency. Among his many detective stories are, The Molly Maguires and the Detectives; Criminal Reminiscences; The Spy of the Rebellion; Thirty Years a Detective; Railroad Forgers and the Detectives.

=Pinkney, Edward Coate.= _E._, 1802-1828. A lyric poet of Baltimore who published his Poems in 1825. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Piper, Richard Upton.= _N. H._, 1818- ----. A Chicago physician. Operative Surgery; The Trees of America.

=Pise= [pize], _Charles Constantine._ _Md._, 1802-1866. A once prominent Roman Catholic clergyman of Brooklyn. History of the Church to the Reformation; The Acts of the Apostles in Blank Verse; Father Rowland; Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story; The Pleasures of Religion, and Other Poems; Horæ Vagabundæ; Alethia; Zenosius; Letters to Ada; Lives of St. Ignatius and his First Companions; Notes on a Protestant Catechism; Christianity and the Church.

=Pitkin, Timothy.= _Ct._, 1766-1847. A lawyer and politician of Connecticut, prominent as a Federalist congressman. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States; Political and Civil History of the United States, 1763-1847.

=Pitman, Benn.= _E._, 1822- ----. A stenographer of Cincinnati, and in his later years an art instructor of the school of design at the University of Cincinnati. The Reporter’s Companion; Manual of Phonography; Phonographic Dictionary (with J. B. Howard).

=Pitman, Mrs. Marie J---- [Davis].= _N. Y._, 1850-1888. A journalist and correspondent of Boston who published European Breezes and a number of juvenile stories.

=Pittenger, William.= _O._, 1840- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Philadelphia, a Federal soldier during the Civil War. Daring and Suffering; Oratory, Sacred and Secular; Extempore Speech.

=Pitzer, Alexander White.= _Va._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Washington, professor of biblical literature in Howard University from 1875. Ecce Deus Homo; Christ the Teacher of Men; The New Life and Not the Higher Life.

=Platt, Franklin.= _Pa._, 1844-1900. A Pennsylvania geologist, president of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Company from 1881. Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining Anthracite, and other volumes of geological reports.

=Platt, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1821-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Rochester, New York, and more recently of Petersburg, Virginia. Influence of Religion in the Development of Jurisprudence; After Death--What?; God Out and Man In; The Philosophy of the Supernatural.

=Pleasanton, Augustus James.= _D. C._, 1808-1894. An army officer prominent for a short time as the author of a work on the Influence of the Blue Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life.

=Plumer= [plŭm´er], =William.= _N. H._, 1789-1854. A New Hampshire lawyer who was an active congressional opponent of slavery. Lyra Sacra; A Pastoral on the Story of Ruth.

=Plumer, William Swan.= _Pa._, 1802-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of extreme Calvinistic views, professor of theology in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, 1856-80. His principal writings include, Pastoral Theology; Jehovah-jireh; Studies in the Book of Psalms; The Book of Our Salvation; Words of Truth and Love; The Saint and the Sinner; Vital Godliness; Commentary on Romans; A Word to the Weary. _Har. Lip. Ran._

=Plympton, George Washington.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A civil engineer of note, editor of Van Nostrand’s Engineering Magazine, 1870-86. The Blowpipe; The Starfinder; The Aneroid.

=Poe, Edgar Allan.= _Ms._, 1809-1849. A poet and romancer who is pronounced by some critics the foremost of American poets so far as melody and technique are concerned. He was born in Boston, his parents being actors then playing in that city, and, left an orphan at an early age, was adopted and educated by Mr. Allan, a Virginia merchant. At nineteen he published his first volume, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. He led a wandering, dissipated life, editing at various times Graham’s Magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger, and other periodicals, and died of delirium tremens in Baltimore. He criticized the work of his contemporaries with severity, yet in the main with justice, but in so doing raised up a host of literary enemies. Among his prose tales, The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; Ligeia, are especially characteristic of his genius, while such poems as The Bells, The Raven, Annabel Lee, display wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre. Beside Tamerlane, his writings include, The Conchologist’s First Book; Eureka, a Prose Poem; The Raven, and Other Poems; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The best edition of Poe is that edited by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, in ten volumes (1895). _See Lives by Stoddard, Didier, Ingram, Woodberry; Fortnightly Review, July, 1880; Poe and his Critics by Mrs. Whitman; Stedman’s Poets of America._ _Co. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Sto._

=Poinsett, Joel Roberts.= _S. C._, 1779-1851. A South Carolina statesman, sent on a special mission to Mexico in 1822, minister to that country 1825-29, and secretary of war under President Van Buren. He was a botanist of some note, the genus Poinsettia having been named in his honour. Notes on Mexico, made in 1822.

=Pollard, Edward Albert.= _Va._, 1828-1872. A once noted journalist of Richmond, Virginia, and an active opponent of the policy of Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. Black Diamonds; Letters of the Southern Spy; Southern History of the War; Observations in the North; The Lost Cause; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee and his Lieutenants; Life of Jefferson Davis, with the Secret History of the Confederacy; The Virginia Tourist. _Lip._

=Pollard, Josephine.= _N. Y._, 1834-1892. A littérateur of New York city, whose work was mainly intended for juvenile readers. The Gypsy Books; A Piece of Silver; Elfin Land; Vagrant Verses; Songs of Bird Life; The Decorative Sisters; The Boston Tea Party; Gellivor, a Christmas Legend. _Meth. Ran._

=Pomeroy, Brick.= _See Pomeroy, Marcus._

=Pomeroy, John Norton.= _N. Y._, 1828-1885. A lawyer of Rochester, New York, but subsequently professor of law in the University of California, 1878-85. Introduction to Municipal Law; Remedies and Remedial Rights; Specific Performance of Contract; Equity Jurisprudence; Riparian Rights; Introduction to United States Constitutional Law; Lectures on International Law in Time of Peace. _Hou. Lit._

=Pomeroy, Marcus Mills.= “Brick Pomeroy.” _N. Y._, 1833-1896. A journalist successively of La Crosse, Wisconsin, New York city (where he established Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat), and Chicago. Sense; Nonsense; Gold Dust; Brick Dust; Our Saturday Nights; Home Harmonies; Perpetual Money.

=Pond, Enoch.= _Ms._, 1791-1882. A Congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine, from 1832, and its president from 1856. Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History; Pastoral Theology; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of Increase Mather; Plato: his Life, Works, Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theology; History of God’s Church, are among his works. _See Autobiography; Bibliography of Maine._ _C. P. S._

=Pond, Frederick Eugene.= “Will Wildwood.” _Wis._, 1856- ----. A sporting writer and editor of Chicago. Hand-book for Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Eminent Sportsmen; Gun Trial and Field Records of America.

=Pond, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1837-1899. A journalist of New York and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and Navy Journal. The Shenandoah Valley in 1864. _Scr._

=Pond, Samuel William.= _Ct._, 1808-1891. A Congregational missionary to the Indians in Minnesota. History of Joseph in the Dakota Language; Wowapi Inonpa, the Second Dakota Reading Book.

=Pool, Maria Louise.= _Ms._, 1845-1898. A novelist of Rockland, Massachusetts, for many years a writer for the New York Tribune. In Buncombe County; A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs. Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The Two Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; Against Human Nature; In a Dike Shanty; In the First Person; Boss and Other Dogs. _Har. Hou. S. St._

=Poole, Herman.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A chemist and metallurgist. Geometry in Ten Lessons; Calorific Power of Fuels.

=Poole, Mrs. Hester Martha [Hunt].= _Vt._, 1843- ----. A writer living at Metuchen, New Jersey, who has written much for periodicals on social and domestic topics. Fruits and How to Use Them.

=Poole, William Frederick.= _Ms._, 1821-1894. A bibliographer of Chicago, librarian of the Public Library there, 1874-87, and, from the latter date, of the Newberry Library, Chicago; best known as compiler (with W. I. Fletcher) of Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. Two supplementary volumes carry the work forward to January, 1892. Other works of his are, Anti-Slavery Opinions before 1800; The Battle of the Dictionaries; Websterian Orthography; Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. _Clke. Hou._

=Poore, Benjamin Perley.= _Ms._, 1820-1887. A once well-known journalist of Washington. Campaign Life of Zachary Taylor; Early Life of Napoleon; Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe; Agricultural History of Essex County, Massachusetts; Life of Burnside; Political Register and Congressional Directory, 1776-1878; Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years. _Hou._

=Pope, Franklin Leonard.= _Ms._, 1840-1895. An electrical engineer of New York city. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph; Life and Work of Joseph Henry, _supra_.

=Pope, John.= _Ky._, 1822-1892. A prominent general in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Virginia Campaign of July and August, 1862.

=Pope, Mrs. Marion [Manville].= _Wis._, 1859- ----. A verse-writer whose home in recent years has been in Valparaiso, Chili. Over the Divide, and Other Verses. _Lip._

=Porcher, Francis Peyre.= _S. C._, 1825-1895. A physician and botanist of Charleston. Sketch of the Medical Botany of South Carolina; Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, are among his writings.

=Porter, Benjamin Fickling.= _S. C._, 1808- ----. A lawyer of Alabama. Alabama Supreme Court Reports; Offices of Executors and Administrators.

=Porter, Charles Talbot.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A mechanical engineer of prominence. Mechanics and Faith, a Study of the Spiritual Truths in Nature.

=Porter, David.= _Ms._, 1780-1843. A once noted commodore in the United States navy. Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean in 1812-15; Constantinople and its Environs. _See Life of, by his son._

=Porter, David Dixon.= _Pa._, 1813-1891. Son of D. Porter, _supra_. An admiral of the Federal navy who commanded the fleet at the storming of Fort Fisher, and amused his latest years by the composition of sensational romances. Life of Commodore Porter, _supra_; Allan Dare and Robert le Diable; Adventures of Harry Marline; Arthur Merton, a romance; Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War; History of the Navy in the War of the Rebellion. _Ap._

=Porter, Ebenezer.= _Ct._, 1772-1834. A Congregational clergyman and educator, of contemporary renown as a preacher. He was professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary, 1812-32, and president of that institution from 1827 till his death. Among his publications are, The Young Preacher’s Manual; A Rhetorical Reader, which reached its 300th edition; Lectures on Homiletics; Lectures on Eloquence and Style. _See Memoir of, by Matthews, 1837._