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.