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PONTK-POPK. 



theology with K<-v Dr Knuuon*. Ho was ordained 

 pastor ot ; .i Church Aulnim, Mass., 



.. and in 1 to/thf 



POffrimt, a monthly ' -.\ <> uphold 



Orthodox t! logy against tho rnitar.an movement. 

 In Is".!' he was made profiMsor of theology in the 

 seminary .a B.ingor, and here In- remained untij his 

 In- li.icl ln-i-n uiii-li- pn-sidcnt lit' tho 

 seminary and professor of Melasiastical history. hut at 

 the SM of flignty WM made professor oincritii- 

 puhlish.tl Lire* of Pr. -idem Samuel Da 



('..nut /,in/ciidorfU -..." John Wkskliffe (is-ll), the 

 Mather Family r William Phipps (1847). 



H:- other works include 



lEffypt (I' ""' T'lU.-'r-'lk ./" Mnhm- 



' of 

 -*5); 

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.VAI.II Mi . MIT I'IIIII.K. Uirn in Lin 

 dun Feb. -7. 1 >:'.'J. is iilxi disting\iished ns an Kgyjit 

 ologist and numi-matist. He l.u- been connected with 

 li.-h Mu-eum sinei- Is.'il'. holding the position- 

 al a i-tant in the department >f antiquities, a- 



..) i -i .in- and medals (!>('. 1 ). and keeper ( 1>7O). 

 He IKI- iiiiud Official Catalog! 



' 



.XVv li;il>n, 



.lolin KiH'\ 



I'ti'irrh (Iv'.U: .Xv i;i>n,;,,; n 



inn Kraini ''In is 



tint '/7iW<.r/i/ ( I - < ('Imrrli (ls-71). 



l'( >NTE. LORENZO l>.\ i an Italian poet, 



;-u at (Yin-da. Venice. March In. 17-4V. lie was 



profasor of rhetoric, hut \va> banished from \ enieo on 



aooiunt of his lilieral opinions and especially a satirical 



IHM-III. Hi- then became Latin secretary to Emperor 



Joseph II.. and wrote the librettos of several opens. 



among which wore !>".< (Hnriiiiiii and the .Vnn-iiii/i nf 



:\\ to Ixmdon a- .it' :in opera 



iiini|iaiiy. and in lso.~> removed to New York. Here 



lie gave instruction in Italian, and at the age of eighty 



was made professor of that language in Columbia Col 



He published an autobiography (New York. 



and died All*;. IT. IV.*. Hi.- son. Lon-n/.o L 



DaPonte (l*i.i-lMo). was professor in tl:i: I'niversity 



of the City ol' New York, and published a Ilistnrii <if 



thf florn'itin- Ii',-j,nt,Hi- ( I - 



1'ONTIAC i./. IT- I Indian warrior, he 



: to the Ottawa tril>e. and was luirn about 1710. 

 His first exploit after bwomiag principal chief of his 

 tribe was the defence of Detroit on In-half of the 

 French in I7K. I le i- ;ilso said \u have- led his war- 

 riors at Itraddock '.- 'lei'. .11 in 17">J. His hatred of the 

 Knclish incre:i*cd alter they had come into possession 

 iada. and ho proceeded to organize a con.-piraey 

 among the Indian t; he colonists. 



The month uOIiiy. I7i'i.:. was appointed for a univer- 

 sal attack on the settlements. In nine e^ises the at- 

 tacks were successful, but at Detroit, where I'ontiac 

 led in person, the settlers were forewarned. He then 

 conducted a reenlar sii-?e for live months, and mean 

 time sought aid from the French in l.mi-rina. He 

 also obtained food for the Ix'siegers by issuing a kind 

 of notes on birch-bark, signed with the figure of an 

 otter. Though the siege was raised Oct. lli. he faith- 

 fully redeemed the notes. But he was unable to re- 

 tain his followers and eventually himself submitted 

 to the English in I7t'if>. In his later years he was in- 

 temperate, and he was killed by an Indian at Cahpkia, 

 op|M)site St Louis, in 17f>9. The IM->I history is F. 

 Parkman's <7ou7>/V"<-i/'./''/ > f.////'i<-(lsr)l). F. H. Hough 

 1 a Diary nf ll,. />,/,;'( (I860). 



!'<)( ILK. S'IAM ^ lish author and Ori- 



entalist, was born in 1/ondoii Die l\ 1 s."i4. Ili-i-a 

 graiiilnephcw of K. W. Line, the noted Orientalist. 

 by whom he was jiartlv educated. He then ptoeei ded 

 to Corpus Chrisli College, Oxford, whence in- gradu- 

 u Ix7s. He had already iriven attention to nu- 

 mismatics under his uncles direction, and in I >T I he 

 wag appointed by the trustees of the British Museum 

 to writ* the official < 'ntnluffue of Ori-n'"/ Cuiiu (8 

 vols., 1875^83). To thi- was added a CataLii/u, ,,f 

 India/ lie also eonil'leted his 



great-uncle's An dlting the sixth and 



seventh volumes (ls77-*.~>). and jmblished a Lifrof E. 

 II" f.<ii" ( I -77 1 As the result of a mission to Egypt 

 in 1883 he public- 1 ^iriiffiu (18S6). and has 



since visited Russia in munuoutk in\e-tiL'atioii He 

 ct)iitribiited many art icle* tut he ninth edition of the /; 

 ixjcliipatdiu ' to the Dictionary of National 



various periodicals. Among hi.- works 

 Me Eaayt in Oriental Nunu'tmnHc* (2 seri' 



to the Hiii'i/i-liij . ami to periodicals. 



POOK. ENOCH (I73H-I7SU). Kovolutionary general. 

 I was born in I7:!t1 at Andover. Ma- ded 



| from Daniel Poor, one of i: Jen. He en 



1 in mercantile business at Exeter. N. H.. and in 

 !77"i was appointed colonel. He si nod at (he 

 of Boston, then went to New Yolk, and was sent to 

 take part in the invasion of Canada. In February. 

 1777. he was appointed brigadier-general, and as such 

 was en^iL'ed in resisting Burgoyno's invasion. He 

 afterwards served under Washington, spent the winter 

 at Valley Forge, fought at Momuouth in 1778. and 

 w.i- in Sullivan's expedition against the Indians of 

 Western New York in 177'.'. In the next year lie had 

 command of a brigade of liuht infantry under Ijiifay 

 cite. He was killed in a duel with a French officer 

 near Hackensack. N J . Sept. s. !7sn. 



POOIIE. BK.X.IAMIX PKUI.KY (!s'_i.>-!ss7). jour 

 nalist. was born at Nowlmryport. Mass.. Nov. L'. 

 He was descended from John Poore. who came from 

 England in Id?.."), and pnreha.-.-d from the Indians in 

 Id.'jil Indian Hill in Newhury. on which Ben resided 

 (' his life. He was educated at Dummer 

 Academy, learned the printer's trade, and went to 

 Athens. (la., where he edited the Smiilirni 117/iVy 

 from JX'.S to 1S4D. He was then made agent of (In- 

 State of Ma achii.-etts to obtain in Europe histori- 

 cal documents and was oonnecti-d with the I'. S 

 legation to Belgium. After travelling over Europe 

 and as far as Egypt and Palestine he returned in Is 17 

 and became Washington correspondent of the Boston 

 .\tlis and afterwards of other paper.-. He introduced 

 the practice of reporting the Washington news by- 

 telegraph. Ib wa.- clerk of the Senate comnii;- 



afl'aiis. and clerk of the printingoonimitteo 



years. He died at Washington, I). C. . May 



.;o. is87. He compiled by order of Cong^ 



works, among which were Our l>i/,li,ni,itii- J^lntiinm, 



i,il ninl Stuti Cnimtitiitl'H'S. I'nlmtiiil Clinrti'i-f. 



<'iitiilnr/i:,- ,,/ Qoventmant Aii&aafjbM. He issued 

 annually the ' ! /'/,<-',., i/ He published 



I, it; * of (ienerals Xaehary Taylor. Grant, Ix>gan. and 

 Bunisidc. His last work was i'ri-lii/'.t /.'. /..///< /.,. 

 (- vols., 1886). He was prominent in the Masonic 

 fraternity, having taken the ::::<1 degree, and con 

 tributcd to this work the article on FIIKK MASONRY. 



POPE. JuIIN. major general, wa- born at Kaskas 

 kia. III.. March I.'. . of Judge 



Nathaniel Pope ( 17,v.-ls:,u) 11. Liaduatcd at V 

 Point in ISlL'. and enteied the topographical engin. 

 lie sei \ I'd under Cen. Taylor in (he Mexican w:i' 

 won two bri ' illantry. I-'rom l>t'.i to i - 



w.i- engaged in exploring expeditions in Mini 

 New Mexico. Texas, -ind among the Kooky Mountain- 

 He wa.- alterwai'i 1 in light house duty. His 

 intense loyaltv tn tlit-I'nion induoi d him to us 

 remark Buchamin's policy in rob mice to 



.Nmih that he was 

 sumnii.i Hi martial, but the trial v 



I i i I I the ofti. 



cortod Lincoln t.. \\'asliim;ton boliin- his inauguration 



lenl. In May. l-t'.l In- w:.- made brigadier 



general and x-igm-d I nimaiid in Missouri, wheru 



