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.