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farmer who could give his son no advantages 

 for education except what he could gain from 

 a winter night-school after farm- work was 

 done. Yet he so improved his limited opportu- 

 nities that at sixteen he himself took up the pro- 

 fession of a schoolmaster. At eighteen he went 

 West to seek his fortune. He first stopped at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, then a mere frontier town. 

 From there he moved to New Orleans. In 

 1832 he returned, engaging in business in New 

 York City while he continued to reside in New 

 Jersey. He represented this State in the Buf- 

 falo Convention in 1 848 as a Free-soil Democrat. 

 In 1858 he was elected to the Legislature. He 

 showed himself so zealous in protecting the 

 valuable franchises of New York City from 

 spoliation that, while he alienated some mem- 

 bers of his own party, he received the nomi- 

 nation for Mayor in 1859. Defeated in that 

 election, he was renominated and installed in 

 1860. His administration extended over the 

 eventful years of 1863 and 1864, and was 

 marked by firmness and vigor. The draft riots 

 were repressed, and many important acts were 

 passed. In 1851 Mr. Opdyke published a work 

 on political economy. While a member of the 

 Board of Currency he showed his mastery of 

 the subject of finance, and carried through 

 some measures to prevent the recurrence of 

 commercial panics. He died in New York, on 

 the 12th of June, in the seventy-fifth year of 

 his age. 



PEIROE, Professor BENJAMIN, the mathema- 

 tician, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, in 

 1809. He graduated at Harvard in 1829. He 

 was for some time Tutor of Mathematics in his 

 college. In 1833 he became Professor of Math- 

 ematics and Natural Philosophy, and in 1842 he 

 was made Professor of Astronomy and Math- 

 ematics. In 1849 the Government appointed 

 him Consulting Astronomer in the prepara- 

 tion of the " American Nautical Almanac." 

 He was a member of the Scientific Council 

 charged with the organization of the Dudley 

 Observatory at Albany. From 1867 to 1874 

 he was Superintendent of the Coast Survey, in 

 place of Professor Bache. He was the author of 

 the mathematical text-books used in Harvard. 

 He supervised the " Cambridge Miscellany of 

 Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy." He 

 was the writer of many widely known papers 

 on " Potential Physics," " Celestial Mechanics," 

 " The Discovery of Neptune," and other kin- 

 dred topics. He died October 6th, at the age 

 of seventy-one. 



PELLICIER, Right Rev. A. D., Bishop of San 

 Antonio, Texas, was born in Florida, in 1824 ; 

 educated at Spring Hill College, Mobile, and 

 ordained in that city in 1850 by Bishop Portier. 

 He was consecrated Bishop of San Antonio on 

 December 8, 1874. He died there, April 14th. 



PHELPS, Rev. ELISHA, D. D., was born at 

 Belchertown, Massachusetts, in 1790, and died 

 at Weehawken, New Jersey, December 29th. 

 He was ordained a minister of the Presbyte- 

 rian Church in 1815. After a pastorate at 



Brookfield, Massachusetts, and another at Ge- 

 neva, New York, in 1835 he was elected Secre- 

 tary of the American Education Society in 

 Philadelphia. In 1850 he retired from active 

 service. He was one of the earliest advocates 

 of the temperance cause. He was father of Pro- 

 fessor Phelps, of Andover, and grandfather of 

 the authoress Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 



PILLOT, ANDREW P., was born in France in 

 1796. He served under Napoleon in his last 

 two campaigns. He afterward removed to 

 America and engaged in commerce, first in 

 Charleston, and later as a banker in New York. 

 His firm, Pillot & LaBarlie, first established 

 the cotton-trade between New York, Liverpool, 

 and Havre. His large fortune was swept away 

 by the sudden fall in prices at the close of the 

 war. He died at Orange, New Jersey, on July 

 10th, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. 



READ, Mrs. SOPHIA HOWARD, died in Balti- 

 more, on November 21st, at the age of eighty. 

 She was the last surviving child of Colonel 

 John Eager Howard, the hero of the Cowpens, 

 who, after passing with distinction through 

 the Revolutionary War, was four times elected 

 Governor of Maryland, and finally represented 

 his State in the United States Senate. His an- 

 cestral estates occupied a portion of the land 

 on which Baltimore stands. Out of it he 

 donated the land for the Washington Monu- 

 ment. He was appointed a brigadier-general 

 in the regular army organized by General 

 Washington. Sophia Howard was born in 

 1800, at her father's Belvidere estate. Born 

 and reared in luxury, she wished to marry a 

 penniless young lawyer, George Chan n ing 

 Read, of South Carolina. Her father's consent 

 being denied, they made a runaway match. 

 The brilliant belle of a few weeks past began 

 housekeeping on the narrowest scale, in her 

 husband's back office. The father soon re- 

 lented, and she inherited from him a large for- 

 tune. Her eldest daughter married an English- 

 man, a near relative of Cardinal Weld. Her 

 second daughter was married first to Albert 

 Carroll, great-grandson of Charles Carroll of 

 Carrollton. Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Car- 

 roll, who joined the Confederates, was killed 

 in battle in 1862. His widow remarried Mr. 

 James Fenner Lee, a member of the Maryland 

 Legislature. Mrs. Read was the friend of Mrs. 

 Betsey Bonaparte, and up to a short period be- 

 fore her death was one of the most conspicu- 

 ous figures in Baltimore society, and an historic 

 link between the Revolutionary period and her 

 own day. 



SATTERLEE, RICHARD S., Brevet Brigadier- 

 General, was born at Fairfield, Herkimer Coun- 

 ty, New York, December, 1798. He was the 

 son of Major William Satterlee, who received 

 his death-wound at the battle of Brandy- 

 wine, shortly before the birth of his son Rich- 

 ard. He was commissioned in the army in 

 1822, and saw hard service against the Indians 

 on the frontier. In 1837 he was at Tampa Bay, 

 and was medical director on the staff of Gen- 



