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in the campaign in Virginia, and in the engage- 

 ments at Winchester, Fishers Hill, and Cedar 

 Creek; and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, 

 April 2, 1805, and captain, March 2, 1807, for 

 gallant and meritorious services before Peters- 

 burg. He was commissioned a 2d lieutenant in 

 the 10th Regular Infantry and 1st lieutenant, 

 both on Feb. 23, 1800; transferred to the 25th 

 Infantry, Sept. 21, 1800; to the 18th Infantry, 

 April 20, 1809; commissioned captain, March 20, 

 1879; major, 'April 20, 1898; lieutenant-colonel, 

 20th Infantry, Jan. 29, 1900; and colonel, 30th 

 Infantry, Sept. 27, 1901. He served in Montana, 

 Indian Territory, Kansas, and Colorado, and was 

 in Texas in 1898, when the Spanish War began, 

 when he was ordered to the Philippines and served 

 there till January, 1901. 



Paul, John, jurist, born in Rockingham Coun- 

 ty, Virginia, in 1839; died in Harrisonburg, Va., 

 Nov. 1, 1901. He was educated at Roanoke Col- 

 lege, and during the civil war was a lieutenant 

 in the 1st Virginia Cavalry. He was graduated 

 in law at the University of Virginia in 1807, and 

 soon became a notable figure in the politics of his 

 State. He was attorney for the Commonwealth 

 from 1870 to 1877, and in the latter year was 

 elected to the State Senate by the readjuster 

 party. He was member of Congress from 1881 to 

 1883. In March, 1883, he was appointed United 

 States judge for the Western District of Virginia, 

 and he took his seat in the autumn of that year 

 and served till his death. 



Paul, William M., actor, born in England in 

 1840; died at Canobie Lake, N. H., Jan. 31, 1901. 

 He first appeared in the United States in 1801 in 

 a pantomime under the management of John Ells- 

 ler, in Cleveland, Ohio. Later he supported Edwin 

 Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Charles Fechter, Joseph 

 Jefferson, and other stars. His last engagement 

 was with the Castle Square Stock Company, Bos- 

 ton, in 1900. He served in the United States navy 

 during the civil war. 



Peabody, Charles Augustus, jurist, born in 

 Sandwich, N. H., July 10, 1814; died in New York 

 city, July 3, 1901. He was graduated at the Har- 

 vard Law School in 1837, and began to practise in 

 New York city in 1839. He was a member of 

 the convention that organized the Republican 

 party in New York, in 1855, and was a justice of 

 the New York (State) Supreme Court from 1855 

 to 1857. In 1858 he was State Commissioner of 

 Quarantine. In 1802 he was appointed judge of 

 the United States Provisional Court of Louisiana. 

 He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of 

 Louisiana from 1803 to 1805. After retiring from 

 the bench he practised law in New York city 

 until his death. He was for many years vice- 

 president of the Association for the Reform and 

 Codification of the Law of Nations, and was the 

 delegate of the United States to the International 

 Congress of Commercial Law in 1885. 



Peakes, James G., singer, born in Boston, 

 Mass., in 1840; died in New York city, Nov. 0, 

 1901. He was educated in the Boston public 

 schools, and made his first appearance at the Bos- 

 ton Museum as a boy soprano. After studying 

 music and singing publicly in Boston for several 

 years he became a leading tenor of the Holman 

 Opera Company. He next sang with the Caroline 

 Richings Company, and for many seasons sang in 

 support of Clara Louise Kellogg under the man- 

 agement of Max Strakosch. When Miss Kellogg 

 retired from the stage he joined Emma Abbott, 

 and was a member of her company till her death. 

 He then became associated with T. Henry French 

 and staged the first production of Little Lord 

 Fauntleroy. Later under the same management 



he sang for several seasons in support of Lillian 

 Kussell; and afterward under GCOI-<M: \\ . Lederer 

 he sang in many of the comic-opera productions 

 at the Casino in New York. 



Perkins, Maurice B., chemist, bom in X ; \v 

 London, Conn., March 14, 1830; died in Si-licnec- 

 tady, N. Y., June 18, 1901. He studied chemistry 

 in 1801-'02 at the Universities of (Jotting-en, Hei- 

 delberg, and Tubingen, in Germany, arid' in lsii> 

 was appointed Assistant Professor of ( 'lieiiii-ti \- 

 in the College of Physicians and Surgeon.s, Xe\V 

 York city, where he served one year. From 1803 

 to 1805 he held a similar place in the Lawrence 

 Scientific School of Harvard University. In 180.3 

 he was made Professor of Analytical Chemistry in 

 Union College, and he held that chair till his 

 death. He received the degree of A. M. from Har- 

 vard in 1805, and of M. D. from Albany Medical 

 College in 1870. In 1880 he was appointed a mem- 

 ber of the State Board of Health of New York, 

 and in later years his time was largely occupied 

 with professional investigations for private con- 

 cerns and as an expert witness in law trials. He 

 published a Manual of Qualitative Analysis. 



Pnueger, Carl, opera-singer and composer, 

 born in Passel, Germany, in 1850; died in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., May 21, 1.901. He sang soprano at 

 the gymnasium of his native town before he was 

 ten years old, and began to study for the operatic 

 stage when he was eighteen years old. He was in 

 active service in the German army during the 

 Franco-Prussian War. His first visit to the 

 United States was with the German Opera Com- 

 pany, in which he sang in New York the leading 

 tenor roles with Pauline Lucca and other artists. 

 He was the first man to impersonate Lohengrin 

 in America. In 1877 he established himself in 

 Boston as a singer, vocal music teacher, and com- 

 poser. In 1883 he assumed the directorship of 

 the Orpheus Musical Society of that city. In 

 1899 he took charge of the Cadet Minstrels in 

 Music Hall, and in 1890 w r rote, in collaboration 

 with R. A. Barnet, Injured Innocence, the first 

 dramatic production given by the Cadets. In 

 1892, with Mr. Barnet, he wrote the music for 

 the play of 1492. 



Phelps, Thomas Stowell, naval officer, born 

 in Buckfield, Me., Nov. 2, 1822; died in New 

 York city, Jan. 10, 1901. He was a lineal de- 

 scendant of George Phelps, of Tewksbury, Eng- 

 land (a scion of the ancient family of Phyllyppes) , 

 who with his brother William became a colonist 

 in 1030 and assisted in founding Dorchester and 

 Westfield, Mass., and Windsor, Conn. The sub- 

 ject of this sketch was appointed a midshipman 

 in the United States navy Jan. 17, 1840, and after 

 six years of sea service was graduated at the 

 Naval Academy in 1840. He served in the Mexi- 

 can War, and was wrecked in the United States 

 ship Boston on Eleuthera island. Afterward he 

 was engaged in the Coast Survey, was on the 

 Mediterranean and Pacific stations, and served 

 throughout the Indian war in Washington Ter- 

 ritory in 1855-'50. He participated in the battle 

 of Seattle, where for more than six hours his di- 

 vision was subjected to a furious fire from a 

 vastly superior force of Indians. He was pro- 

 moted to lieutenant in 1855, was executive officer 

 of the steamer Westernport in the Paraguay ex- 

 pedition, and at the beginning of the civil war 

 was attached to an expedition for the relief of 

 Fort Sumter. In June, 1801, he executed a sur- 

 vey and drew a chart of the Potomac river, for the 

 defense of Washington, running the Aquia creek 

 batteries, and was selected to cooperate with the 

 advance movements of the army and navy. In 

 September, 1801, he was transferred to the ship 



