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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PIKE PINGREE.) 



Corwin for secret service in Virginia and North 

 Carolina waters. He surveyed and buoyed Hat- 

 teras inlet for the admission of expeditions into 

 Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, frequently op- 

 posed by a Confederate squadron of gunboats, 

 and on Nov. 14 he engaged and beat off the Con- 

 federate gunboat 

 Curlew, of superior 

 force. In March, 

 1862, he was as- 

 signed to the com- 

 mand of a squad- 

 ron for the pur- 

 pose of placing an 

 army corps in the 

 rear of the enemy, 

 was in 3 engage- 

 ments with the 

 Yorktown and 

 Gloucester Point 

 batteries, and on 

 the evacuation of 

 these places ad- 

 vanced up York 

 river to West 

 Point, capturing 5 



Confederate vessels arid causing the destruction 

 of 2 others, and thwarted the destruction of the 

 White House bridge. At the battle of West Point 

 he prevented the junction of a large Confederate 

 force with the main army. He made charts of the 

 Mattapony and Pamunkey rivers, and after the 

 repulse of McClellan was, in compliance with an 

 act of Congress, detailed to survey the Potomac 

 river thoroughly, which was successfully accom- 

 plished, although he was opposed by a strong 

 force of the enemy. He became a lieutenant- 

 commander in June, 1862, and during portions 

 of the years 1863-'64 was employed in exam- 

 ining dangers in the way of blockading ves- 

 sels. He commanded the Juniata at the capture 

 of Fort Fisher, and was afterward transferred to 

 the Lenapee, and was senior officer in the Cape 

 Fear river and adjacent waters to the close of the 

 war. He then served on the Southern coast till 

 1867, when he was transferred to duty at the 

 California Navy-Yard, having been commissioned 

 a commander in August, 1865. He was promoted 

 to captain in 1871, commanded the Saranac in 

 1871-73, and next served as captain of the yard 

 at Mare Island until April, 1877. He commanded 

 the Independence in 1877-'78, and was commis- 

 sioned commodore in January, 1879. He was 

 commandant of Mare Island Navy-Yard in 1881- 

 '82, and commander-in-chief of the South Atlantic 

 station in 1883-'84. He was promoted to rear- 

 admiral in March, 1884, and after forty-five years 

 of active service was retired in November of the 

 same year. He published Sailing Directions for 

 the Straits of Magellan (Washington, 1855) ; 

 Reminiscences of Washington Territory (New 

 York, 1882) ; and magazine articles. 



Pike, Marshall S., song-Avriter, born in West- 

 boro, Mass., May 20, 1818; died in Upton, Mass., 

 Feb. 13, 1901. He began to write verses and 

 music when he was fourteen years old. In 1843, 

 with John and James Power and L. V. H. Crosby, 

 he formed a quartet called the Albino family. 

 With this and the Harmoneon family he and his 

 songs gained a wide reputation. At the begin- 

 ning of the civil war he organized a band and 

 went to the front as drum-major with the 22d 

 Massachusetts Regiment. He was taken prisoner 

 at the battle of Gaines Mill, and sent to Libby 

 Prison. While there he organized a glee-club to 

 alleviate the sufferings and shorten the weary 

 hours of the captives. After his release he sang 



in New England as a member and part owner of 

 the Pike and Glunn Combination. The best 

 known of his many songs, which were widely 

 popular in the days following the war, are The 

 Indian Warrior's Grave ; Lone Starry Hours; 

 Washington's Grave; Twinkling Stars are Laugh- 

 ing, Love; and Home Again. 



Pillsbury, John Sargent, ex-Governor of 

 Minnesota, born in Sutton, N. H., July 29, 1828; 

 died in Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 18, 1901. After 

 receiving a common-school education he learned 

 the trade of a painter, clerked for a time in his 

 brothers store, later was a merchant tailor in 

 Concord, N. H., and finally settled in St. Anthony 

 (now a part of Minneapolis), in the hardware 

 business in 1855. - In 1857 he was burned out, but 

 he continued the business until some years after- 

 ward, when he engaged in flour-milling with his 

 nephew*, Charles A. Pillsbury. In 1872 he became 

 a partner in the famous firm of Charles A. Pills- 

 bury & Co. When the civil war broke out he or- 

 ganized the 1st, 2d, and 3d Regiments of Minne- 

 sota Volunteers. In 1862 he, with others, raised and 

 equipped a mounted company to aid in suppress- 

 ing an Indian outbreak in Minnesota. In 1863 he 

 became one of the regents of the University of 

 Minnesota, and to him was due the fact that it 

 emerged from early poverty into an era of pros- 

 perity. In 1863 he.\vas elected to the State Sen- 

 ate, where he served almost continuously until 

 1876. He was elected Governor in 1875, and was 

 twice reelected, serving till 1882. During his 

 term he prevented the repudiation of the Minne- 

 sota State Railway bonds, and did much to assist 

 the farmers that had been impoverished by the 

 grasshopper plague. In 1889 he built and gave 

 to the university Science Hall, at a cost of $150,- 

 000. He presented a handsome town hall to Sut- 

 ton, N. H., and built in Warner, N. H., the Pills- 

 bury Free Library, and in Concord, N. H., the 

 Margaret Pillsbury Hospital. In 1900 he gave to 

 East Minneapolis a branch public library, and 

 joined his wife in the support of the Home for 

 Working Girls, in Minneapolis, to the permanent 

 fund of which he gave $100,000. 



Pingree, Hazen S., ex-Governor of Michigan, 

 born in Denmark, Me., Aug. 30, 1840; died in 

 London, England, June 18, 1901. At the age of 

 fourteen he was working in a cotton factory in 

 Saco, Me.; in 1860 he was employed in a shoe 

 factory in Hopkinton, Mass. In 1862 he enlisted 

 as a private in the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Ar- 

 tillery, and he served through the war. He par- 

 ticipated in the second battle of Bull Run, and 

 the battles of Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania, Cold 

 Harbor, and North Anna. In 1864 he was cap- 

 tured and was a prisoner five months. In Au- 

 gust, 1865, he was mustered out and returned to 

 Hopkinton. Soon afterward he went to Detroit, 

 Mich., where for a time he was employed in a 

 boot and shoe factory. In December, 1866, he 

 formed a partnership with C. H. Smith to manu- 

 facture shoes, and their business increased till 

 the annual output represented $1,000,000. In 

 1889 he was elected mayor of Detroit by the Re- 

 publican party by 2,318 majority, overcoming a 

 normal Democratic majority of 3,000. He was 

 three times reelected in 1891, 1893, and 1895 

 by increased majorities each time. As mayor he 

 accomplished many municipal reforms. His plan 

 to turn over the city's unoccupied lands for the 

 cultivation of potatoes by the poor was exten- 

 sively noticed. He was elected Governor of Michi- 

 gan in 1896, was reelected in 1898, and retired in 

 1900 after a stormy time with the Legislature, 

 but chiefly relating to reforms in the taxation of 

 steam railroads. 



