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._
=Porter, Fitz-John.= _N. H._, 1822-1901. A brevet brigadier-general
dismissed from the service in 1863, reinstated by act of Congress,
1886. Narrative of the Services of the Fifth Army Corps in 1862 in
Northern Virginia.
=Porter, James.= _Ms._, 1800-1888. A once prominent Methodist clergyman
of Boston. History of Methodism; The Winning Worker; Hints to
Self-Educated Ministers; Compendium of Methodism, comprise a portion of
his writings. _Meth._
=Porter, John Addison.= _N. Y._, 1822-1866. A professor of chemistry at
Yale College, 1852-64. Principles of Chemistry; First Book of Chemistry.
=Porter, John Addison.= _Ct._, 1856-1900. Son of J. A. Porter, _supra_.
The Corporation of Yale College; Administration of the City of
Washington; Sketches of Yale Life.
=Porter, Linn Boyd.= “Albert Ross.” _Ms._, 1851- ----. A novelist of
Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular, although severely
criticised from a literary point of view as well as from an ethical
standpoint. Among them are, Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of Ellen; A Black
Adonis; Out of Wedlock. _Dil._
=Porter, Mrs. Lydia Ann [Emerson].= _Ms._, 1816- ----. Cousin of R. W.
Emerson, _supra_. An educator of Springfield, Vermont. Uncle Jerry’s
Letters to Young Mothers; The Lost Will, are among her writings.
=Porter, Noah.= _Ct._, 1811-1892. A Congregational clergyman of
Connecticut, president of Yale College, 1871-85, and a metaphysician
of distinction. The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of
Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges
and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley;
Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; The Science
of Nature and the Science of Man. _Scr._
=Porter, Rose.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. An author of New Haven who has
written and compiled a large number of religious books. Among her
original works are, Summer Driftwood for the Winter Fire; A Modern St.
Christopher; Our Saints, a Family Story; My Son’s Wife. _Lo. Ran. Rev._
=Porter, Thomas Conrad.= _Pa._, 1822-1901. A German Reformed clergyman
famous as a botanist, and professor of botany at Lafayette College,
Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Sketch of the Flora of Pennsylvania;
Sketch of the Botany of the United States; Synopsis of the Flora of
Colorado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of Pennsylvania; The Grasses
of Pennsylvania.
=Posse, Nils.= Baron Posse. _Sn._, 1862-1895. A Boston instructor in
gymnastics. Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics; Medical
Gymnastics; Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics. _Le._
=Post, Truman Marcellus.= _Vt._, 1810-1866. A Congregational clergyman
and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington University.
The Skeptical Era in Modern History. _See Life of, by T. H. Post._
=Post, Waldron Kintzing.= _N. Y._, 1868- ----. A lawyer of New York
city. Harvard Stories. _Put._
=Potter, Alonzo.= _N. Y._, 1800-1865. The third Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Pennsylvania and an active promoter of educational movements.
The Principles of Science Applied to Domestic and Mechanic Arts;
Religious Philosophy; Political Economy; co-author with G. B. Emerson,
_supra_, of The School and the Schoolmaster. _See Memoirs of, 1870._
=Potter, Burton Willis.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Worcester,
Massachusetts. The Road and Roadside, a legal treatise. _Lit._
=Potter, Eliphalet Nott.= _N. Y._, 1836-1901. Son of A. Potter,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart
College, Geneva, New York, 1884-96. Parochial Sermons; Christian
Evidences.
=Potter, Henry Codman.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Son of A. Potter, _supra_.
The sixth Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, and prominent among
Broad Church thinkers. Sermons of the City; The Gates of the East; a
Winter in Egypt and Syria; Sisterhoods and Deaconesses; Waymarks. _Dut._
=Potter, Platt.= _N. Y._, 1800-1891. A jurist of Schenectady. Potter’s
Dwarris; Treatise on Corporations; Equity Jurisprudence.
=Potter, William James.= _Ms._, 1830-1894. A Unitarian clergyman of New
Bedford for many years, prominent as a radical thinker. Twenty-Five
Sermons of Twenty-Five Years; Lectures and Sermons. _El._
=Potts, James Henry.= _Ont._, 1848- ----. A Methodist clergyman, editor
of The Michigan Christian Advocate from 1877. Methodism in the Field;
Golden Dawn; Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and Crowns; Faith Made Easy.
=Potts, Stacey Gardner.= _Pa._, 1799-1865. A jurist of Trenton, New
Jersey. Village Tales; Precedents and Notes of Practice in the New
Jersey Chancery Court.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A clergyman who has held
pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches successively, and
has long been resident in Clinton, New York. Our Heredity from God;
Liberty and Life. _Ap._
=Powell, John Wesley.= _N. Y._, 1834-1902. An eminent geologist,
director of the United States Geological Survey, 1879-94. Exploration
of the Uinta Mountains; The Arid Regions of the United States;
Introduction to the Study of the Indian Languages; Studies in
Sociology; Canyons of the Colorado. _Am. Fl._
=Powell, Thomas.= _E._, 1809-1887. An English writer who came to
America in 1849, and was for many years connected with the Frank Leslie
publications. He wrote a number of plays, among which are, True at
Last; The Shepherd’s Well. Other works of his are, Florentine Tales;
Tales from Boccaccio; Living Authors of England; Living Authors of
America.
=Powers, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. Brother of H. N. Powers,
_infra_. A civil engineer who published a work entitled War and the
Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain.
=Powers, Horatio Nelson.= _N. Y._, 1826-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of
Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in his latest years, of Piermont, New York,
who was favourably known as a poet. His writings include, Early and
Late; Poems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the Hudson; Through the Year,
a volume of religious essays. _Lo. Rob._
=Poyas, Catherine Gendron.= _S. C._, 1813-1882. A verse-writer of
Charleston. Huguenot Daughters, and Other Verses; A Year of Grief.
=Pratt, Daniel Johnson.= _N. Y._, 1827-1884. Annals of Public Education
in the State of New York, 1626-1746.
=Pratt, Mrs. Ella [Farman].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A popular writer for
young people, long the editor of The Wide Awake, and more recently
of Our Little Men and Women. Among her writings are, Good-for-Nothing
Polly; A Girl’s Money; A Little Woman; A White Hand; Happy Children.
_Cr. Lo._
=Pratt, Jacob Loring.= 1835-1891. A clergyman of Maine. Evening Rest;
Branches of Palm; Broken Fetters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie; Mecca;
The Crown of Silver. _Lo._
=Pratt, Orson.= _N. Y._, 1811-1881. A Mormon apostle and educator,
professor of mathematics in Deseret University. Divine Authenticity of
the Book of Mormon; Cubic and Bi-Quadratic Equations; The Great First
Cause; The Absurdities of Immaterialism.
=Pratt, Parley Parker.= _N. Y._, 1807-1857. Brother of O. Pratt,
_supra_. A Mormon apostle and missionary. Voice of Warning and
Instruction to All People; History of the Persecutions of Missouri; Key
to the Science of Theology.
=Pratt, Samuel Wheeler.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
at Monroe, Michigan, from 1883. A Summer at Peace Cottage, or Talks
About Home Life; The Gospel of the Holy Spirit; Life of St. Paul. _Ran._
=Pray, Isaac Clark.= _Ms._, 1813-1869. A journalist, playwright, and
theatrical manager of New York city. Prose and Verse; The Book of the
Drama; Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, are among his miscellaneous
works. Virginius; Hermit of Malta; Giulietta Gordoni, and the first
and last acts of The Corsican Brothers, are a portion of his dramatic
writings.
=Pray, Lewis Glover.= _Ms._, 1793-1882. A Boston philanthropist who
published Child’s First Book of Thought; History of Sunday-Schools; The
Sylphid’s School, and Other Pieces in Verse.
=Preble, George Henry.= _Me._, 1816-1885. A rear-admiral in the United
States navy. History of the American Flag; Chronological History of
Steam Navigation; The Preble Family in America.
=Preble, Henry.= _Me._, 1853- ----. An educator who was professor
of Latin at Harvard University. He has edited a revised edition of
Andrews and Stoddard’s Latin Grammar, and several volumes of Latin
classics, and has published (with C. Parker) a Handbook of Latin
Writing; and Latin Lessons (with L. C. Hull). _Gi. Hou._
=Prentice, George.= _Ms._, 1834-18--. A Methodist clergyman, professor
of modern languages at Wesleyan University. Life of Bishop Gilbert
Haven, _supra_; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the Œcumenical
Council, from the French of Pressensé; Life of Wilbur Fisk, _supra_.
_Hou._
=Prentice, George Denison.= _Ct._, 1802-1870. A once famous Kentucky
journalist who was editor of The Louisville Journal, 1831-70, and
widely known for his witticisms. Life of Henry Clay; Prenticeana. _See
Poems, with Memoir of, by J. J. Piatt; Lippincott’s Magazine, November,
1869; Harper’s Magazine, January, 1875._ _Clke._
=Prentiss, Charles.= _Ms._, 1774-1820. A journalist of Washington.
Fugitive Essays in Prose and Verse; Poems; History of the United
States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins; Lives of Robert Treat Paine and
General William Eaton.
=Prentiss, Mrs. Elizabeth [Payson].= _Me._, 1818-1878. Wife of G.
L. Prentiss, _infra_. A popular writer of religious fiction whose
Stepping Heavenward has been widely read. Among her many other works
are, Pemaquid; The Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane’s Hero; The Flower of
the Family; Little Susy Series; Fred, Maria, and Me. _See Life by her
husband._ _Ran. Scr._
=Prentiss, George Lewis.= _Me._, 1816-1903. A Presbyterian clergyman of
New York city, professor of pastoral theology in Union Seminary from
1873. Memoir of Sargent Prentiss; Life of Elizabeth Prentiss, _supra_;
Our National Bane; The Problem of the Veto Power; The Argument between
Union Seminary and the General Assembly; Fifty Years of Union Seminary.
_Ran._
=Prescott, Albert Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A chemist who has
been dean of the school of pharmacy at Michigan University from 1876.
Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis; Chemical Examination of
Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; Qualitative Analysis (with S.
Douglas).
=Prescott, George Benjamin.= _N. H._, 1830-1894. A prominent
electrician of New York city. History of the Electric Telegraph; Dynamo
Electricity; Invention of Bell’s Telephone, are his principal writings.
=Prescott, Mary Newmarch.= _Me._, 1849-1888. Sister of Mrs. H.
Spofford, _infra_. A popular magazine-writer of Newburyport who
published Matt’s Follies, a juvenile tale.
=Prescott, William Hickling.= _Ms._, 1796-1859. A celebrated historian
of Boston. While a student at Harvard College, he lost the use of one
eye and not long afterwards the free use of the other, and, until in
later life his eyesight improved, he was obliged to depend upon the
reading of others in his historical researches. In 1837 his History of
the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella appeared and brought him instant
fame. It was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru;
an edition of Robertson’s Charles V., with Prescott’s own work on the
cloister life of that monarch; History of Philip II.; Biographical
and Critical Miscellanies. _See Lives by R. Ogden (1904) and Ticknor,
infra; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Lip._
=Preston, Harriet Waters.= _Ms._, _c._ 1843- ----. A high authority
upon Provençal literature and a writer of literary criticism and
historical studies who has lived much in Europe. Her writings include,
Aspendale; Love in the Nineteenth Century; Troubadours and Trouvères; A
Year in Eden; Is That All? a novel; The Georgics of Virgil in English
Verse; and a translation from the Provençal of Frédéric Mistral’s
Mirèio.
=Preston, Mrs. Margaret [Junkin].= _Va._, 1820-1897. A poet and
prose-writer of Lexington, Virginia, and later of Baltimore. Old
Song and New; Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War; Colonial Ballads,
Sonnets, and Other Verse; For Love’s Sake; The Young Ruler’s Question;
Silverwood, a novel; A Handful of Monographs. _Hou._
=Preston, Thomas Scott.= _Ct._, 1824-1891. A Roman Catholic clergyman,
but prior to 1849 in orders in the Episcopal Church. From 1881 he was a
domestic prelate of the papal household with the title of Monsignore.
Protestantism and the Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ and the
Church; The Ark of the Covenant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life of
St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent de Paul; Christian Unity;
Purgatorian Manual.
=Price, Bruce.= _N. Y._, 1845-1903. An architect of New York city. A
Large Country House.
=Price, Eli Kirk.= _Pa._, 1797-1884. A Philadelphia lawyer of eminence.
Law of Limitations and Liens against Real Estate. _See Memoir of, by
Rothrock, 1880._
=Price, Ira Maurice.= _O._, 1856- ----. An educator of Chicago,
professor of Semitic languages in the University of Chicago from 1892.
Syllabus of Old Testament History. _Rev._
=Price, Thomas Randolph.= _Va._, 1839-1903. A professor of English
literature at Columbia College from 1882. The Teaching of the Mother
Tongue; Shakespeare’s Verse Construction.
=Priest, Josiah.= _N. Y._, _c._ 1790-_c._ 1850. A harness-maker of
New York State, some of whose books were very popular. Wonders of
Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution; American
Antiquities; Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture.
=Prime, Benjamin Young.= _L. I._, 1733-1791. A physician of Huntington,
Long Island, who wrote patriotic verses during the Revolutionary
period. The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, includes his earlier
poems. Columbia’s Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a long poem
printed in 1791.
=Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. Son of N. S. Prime,
_infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who was one of the editors of The New
York Observer, to which he contributed the Letters of Eusebius. Around
the World; Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or Memoirs of Reverend
William Goodell.
=Prime, Nathaniel Scudder.= _L. I._, 1785-1856. Son of B. Y. Prime,
_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, New York. Familiar
Illustration of Christian Baptism; History of Long Island.