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ward engaged in surveying in Wisconsin till the be- 

 ginning of the civil war. He accepted an appoint- 

 ment of captain of engineers on the staff of Gen. 

 McDowell ; was afterward promoted colonel, and 

 served till the close of the war on the general staff of 

 the Array of the Potomac, performing valuable duty 

 in making topographical surveys and maps. After 

 the war he resumed his profession. In 1869 he was 

 chosen one of the engineers of the East River Bridge ; 

 assisted John A. Roebling in the preliminary surveys, 

 superintended the construction, placing, and sinking 

 of the caissons ; had charge of the building of the 

 tower^n the JSIew York city side and the laying of 

 the superstructure, and designed the system of cable 

 traction that moves the cars across the bridge. After 

 the prostration of Washington A. Roebling, Col. 

 Paine had the active supervision of the entire work. 

 On the completion of his work on the bridge he built 

 cable roads in New York city, Denver, Omaha, and 

 Kansas City, drew the plans for the proposed cable 

 road in Third Avenue, New York, was consulting en- 

 gineer on the great Port Huron Tunnel, and at the 

 time of his death had just completed the cable road in 

 Cleveland. He was deeply versed in botany, chemis- 

 try, and geology, had a passion for mathematics, and 

 was familiar with choice literature. 



Fallen, Montrose Anderson, surgeon, born in Vicks- 

 burg, Miss., Jan. 2, 1836 ; died in New York city, 

 Oct. 1, 1890. He was graduated at the St. Louis Uni- 

 versity in 1853, and at its medical school in 1856, 

 spent two years in study in London, Paris, and Ber- 

 lin, and practiced in St. Louis till 1874. He was a 

 medical director in the Confederate army in 1861-'63, 

 medical commissioner to Canada to report on the con- 

 dition of the Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Isl- 

 and in 1863, commissioner to Paris to obtain medical 

 and surgical supplies for the Confederate army in 

 1864, and was a prisoner of war in New York city at 

 the time of Gen. Lee's surrender. After the war he 

 returned to St. Louis, and was Professor of Gynae- 

 cology in Humboldt's Medical College in 1866-' 67 ; 

 Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics in St. Louis Medical 

 College in 1867-' 68; Professor of Gynaecology in St. 

 Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1869-'70 ; 

 and Professor of Anatomy in Missouri Medical Col- 

 lege in 1870-'72. In 1874 he was appointed Professor 

 of Gynaecology in the University of the City of New 

 York, and he held the office till his death. He was 

 one of the founders of the New York Post-Graduate 

 Medical College, Surgeon to the Charity Hospital, 

 and, as an intimate friend of Sir Morell Mackenzie, 

 was one of the consulting surgeons in the case of the 

 late Emperor Frederick III of Germany. 



Palmer, Peter Si, lawyer, born in Hampton, Wash- 

 ington County, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1814 ; died in Platts- 

 burg., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1890. He removed to Platts- 

 burg at an early age, was elected clerk of the village 

 and admitted to the bar in 1836, spent several years 

 in Macomb County, Mich., where he becamo judge 

 of the Court of Probate, and, returning to Platts- 

 burg, was president of the village for several years 

 and county judge and surrogate of Clinton County 

 from 1863 till 1868. He had been engaged since in 

 private practice, and applied his leisure to historical 

 research and writing. Among his valuable contri- 

 butions to historical literature was a " History of Lake 

 Champlain from 1609 to 1814." 



Parker, Amasa Jnnius, lawyer, born in Sharon, Conn., 

 June 2, 1807 ; died in Albany, N. Y., May 13, 1890. 

 He passed the full-course examination in Union Col- 

 lege in 1825, became principal of an academy in Hud-- 

 son, N. Y., studied law and was admitted to the bar 

 in 1828. In 1833 he was elected to the State Assem- 

 bly as a Democrat, and in 1835 was elected a regent 

 of the State University, being the youngest person 

 ever chosen to that office. He was a member of Con- 

 gress from 1837 till 1839, district attorney of Dela- 

 ware County ti-^m 1840 till 1844, circuit judge and 

 Vice-Chancellor of the 3d Judicial Circuit from 1844 

 till 1817, and a judge of the New York Supreme 

 Court from 1847 till 1855, when he was defeated for 



re-election. He was defeated as Democratic candi- 

 date for Governor of the State in 1856 and 1858, and 

 declined the office of United States District Attorney 

 for the Southern District of New York in 1859. In 

 1864 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention, 

 and in 1867 to the State Constitutional Convention. 

 He was an active " peace " Democrat during the civil 

 war. He was a founder of the Albany Law School, 

 and one of its professors for twenty years ; a trustee 

 of Cornell University and Union College ; custodian 

 of the Harmanus Bleecker legacy, which formed the 

 nucleus of the Public Hall fund of the Young Men's 

 Association of Albany ; and President of the Board of 

 Trustees of Albany Medical College. He received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Hobart College. Judge Par- 

 ker was among the foremost advocates of the aboli- 

 tion of the Court of Chancery, and of various reforms 

 in judicial procedure. Among the important cases in 

 which he was engaged were those involving the right 

 to tax national banks, and the title to the Trinity 

 Church property in New York city, the Levy will 

 case, the controversy between the Delaware and" Hud- 

 son Canal and the Pennsylvania Coal Companies, and 

 the boundary - line question between the States of 

 New York and New Jersey. He published six vol- 

 umes of law reports (Albany, 1855-' 69). 



Paynter, John Henry, lawver, born in New York city, 

 in 1838 ; died in Laurel, Del., June 21, 1890. He was 

 graduated at Newark Academy and at Union College 

 in 1858, was admitted to the bar in Sussex County, 

 Del., in 1861, and was appointed soon afterward 

 Deputy Attorney- General of the State. In 1866 he 

 was elected a member of the State Senate as a Demo- 

 crat ; in 1869 was appointed Attorney-General, but 

 soon resigned on account of inelegibility because as a 

 State Senator he had voted to increase the salary of 

 that officer; in 1871 was appointed Secretary of State 

 and held the office four years. In 1885 he was again 

 appointed Attorney-General ; and in March, 1887, he 

 resigned to accept the office of Associate Justice of 

 the "Supreme Court of Delaware, which he held until 

 his death. He was also editor of the " Delaware 

 Democrat" of Georgetown from 1881 till 1887. 



Peixotto, Benjamin Pranklin, lawyer, born in New 

 York city, Nov. 13, 1834 ; died there, Sept. 17, 1890. 

 He received his early education in the public schools 

 of his native city, removed to Cleveland, Ohio, on the 

 death of his father, in 1847, studied law, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar. He practiced his profession and 

 wrote political articles for the Cleveland " Plain- 

 dealer " till 1866. During his residence in Cleveland 

 he became Grand Saar or Master of the Independent 

 Order of B'nai B'rith, and was instrumental in secur- 

 ing the erection of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He 

 returned to New York city in 1866 for a few months, 

 and in 1867 removed to San Francisco to practice. 

 In 1870 President Grant appointed him United States 

 consul at Bucharest, Roumania. The civilized world 

 had just been aroused to indignation by the reports 

 of a massacre of Jews in Roumania, and 'of the subse- 

 quent persecution of that people there, and a wide 

 interest was excited as to how a Jewish representa- 

 tive of the United States would be received in that 

 country. Mr. Peixotto hastened to his post, was re- 

 ceived with marks of unusual consideration, and dur- 

 ing the five years he held the office was able to accom- 

 Slish much toward ameliorating the condition of the 

 ews in the Balkan states. He returned to the United 

 States in 1876, was offered in 1877 the office of United 

 States consul-general at St. Petersburg, which he 

 declined, and then accepted the office of United States 

 Consul at Lyons, France, and held it till 1885, when 

 he returned" to New York city and resumed practice. 

 Pepper, George Geckel, philanthropist, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., June 11,1808; died there, May ,1890. 

 He was graduated at Princton ; was admitted to the . 

 bar in 1830, but never practiced, and spent his 

 life in managing a vast estate left by his father. He 

 was connected with the principal financial institutions 

 of Philadelphia, and had been President of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Music, President of the Rittenhouse 



