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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PFAFF POLLOCK.) 



The case was referred to the courts and shortly before 

 his death a decision was rendered awarding the " Star 

 Catalogue" to Dr. Peters as his property, with inter- 

 est on its value and six cents damages to carry costs. 

 Pfaff, Charles Ignatius, caterer, born in Baden, Ger- 

 many, in 1819; died in New York city, April 25, 

 1890" He removed to New York in 1855, and opened 

 a restaurant on Broadway, near Amity Street. About 

 1860 he established himself at No. 653 Broadway, and 

 from that time till 1876 his chop-house was one "of the 

 most popular and noted resorts in the city. It was 

 frequented by the actors, artists, authors, musicians, 

 newspaper men, wits, and the men-about-town, who 

 named it "Bohemia," and elected Henry Clapp, Jr., 

 the king, and the gifted Ada Clare the queen. The 

 house was the scene of merry revels at all hours of 

 day and night. Poems were composed ; newspaper 

 and magazine articles were suggested and written ; 

 plays were projected, completed, and rehearsed ; and 

 innumerable plans of literary venture were perfected 

 there. The proprietor moved up-town to Twenty- 

 fourth Street, near Broadway, in 1876, and retired 

 from business about 1887. He survived nearly all the 

 members of the unique " Bohemia." 



Phelps, Austin, educator, born in West Brookfield, 

 Mass.. Jan. 7, 1820: died in Bar Harbor, Me., Oct. 

 13, 1890. He was educated at Hobart College, at the 

 University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated 

 in 1837, and at Andover and Union Theological Semi- 

 naries. He was ordained pastor of the Pine Street 

 Congregational Church in Boston in 1842, and re- 

 signed in 1848 on being appointed Professor of Sacred 

 Rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary. In 1869 

 he was elected president of the seminary, and he held 

 this office and the chair of Sacred Khetoric till 1879, 

 when he resigned both, and was made professor 

 emeritus. He had been a trustee of Wellesley Col- 

 lege, a director of the American Education Society, 

 chaplain of the State Legislature, preacher to the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a member of 

 many religious, educational, and charitable societies. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Amherst College 

 in 1856. His publications include : " The Still Hour " 

 (Boston, 1859); ''Hymns and Choirs" (Andover, 

 1860); t; The New Birth" (Boston, 1867) : "Sabbath 

 Hours" (1870); " Studies of the Old Testament" 

 (1879) ; " The Theory of Preaching" (1881) ; " Men 

 and Books" (1882); r ' My Portfolio" (1882); " Eng- 

 lish Style" (1883) ; " My Study (1885) ; and " My 

 Note-Book, or Fragmentary Studies in Theology." 



Philleo, Prudence Crandall, abolitionist, born in Hop- 

 kinton, K. I., in 1803; died in Elk Falls, Kan., Jan. 

 28, 190. She was educated in the Friends' School in 

 Providence, and became a teacher. In 1831 she set- 

 tled in Canterbury, Conn., and established a board- 

 ing school for girls. She 

 was ably seconded in her 

 efforts to provide a high- 

 er grade of instruction for 

 girls and young women 

 than was elsewhere 

 taught, and for two 

 years her school pros- 

 pered and was recog- 

 nized as a model institu- 

 tion. In 1833 she created 

 intense excitement by 

 admitting a colored pu- 

 pil. Immediately the 

 parents of her white pu- 

 pils protested, and then 

 .threatened to withdraw 

 them if the colored girl 

 was not dismissed. Miss 



Crandall firmly declined to heed either protests or 

 threats. A consultation with several of the anti- 

 slavery leaders strengthened her determination, and 

 led her to undertake the education of colored chil- 

 dren exclusively. In March, 1833, a circular which 

 she had had widely distributed was published in 

 the "Liberator." It announced that on the first 



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M'onday in April she would open her school for the- 

 reception of young ladies and little misses of color,, 

 and it bore the names of William Lloyd Garrison, 

 Arthur Tappan, Samuel J. May, and Arnold Buttum 

 as her references. This publication produced greater 

 indignation than her reception of the colored pupil. 

 Public meetings were held in which her course was 

 severely denounced, and her friends, particularly 

 Messrs. May and Buffum, were denied an opportunity 

 for presenting her side of the controversy. Miss 

 Crandall opened her school at the promised time, and 

 to the surprise of the towns-people gathered a con- 

 siderable number of colored pupils. Petitions to the 

 Legislature were then extensively .signed throughout 

 the State, and, acting on these, that body passed an 

 act in May prohibiting in the State private schools for 

 non-resident colored persons. But she persisted in 

 keeping her school open despite the law and the local 

 ' annoyances to which she was subjected, and in con- 

 sequence she was arrested for violation of the law in 

 August, was tried and acquitted that month, tried 

 again and convicted in October, and secured the re- 

 versal on a technicality by the Supreme Court of Er- 

 rors of the judgment of the lower court in July, 1834. 

 Baffled thus in legal proceedings, the towns-people 

 took the law into their own hands and burned and 

 ransacked her house. She then reluctantly abandoned 

 her cherished purpose. Shortly afterward she mar- 

 ried the Rev. Calvin Philleo, a Baptist clergyman, 

 and lived quietly in New York, Illinois, and Kansas, 

 where her husband died in 1876. Francis Alexander 

 painted her portrait for the American Anti -Slavery 

 Society in 1838, and Samuel J. May subsequently pre- 

 sented it to Cornell University. 



Phillips, Richard Henry, educator, born in Fredericks- 

 burg, Va., in 1811 ; died in Norfolk, Va., April 7, 

 1890. He was graduated at Yale College, and was or- 

 dained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. After he had preached a short time his 

 health became too much impaired for an active pastor- 

 ate, and he applied himself to educational work, first 

 in Maryland, and afterward in Stauntpn, Va. He was 

 principal of the Virginia Female Institution for thir- 

 ty-two years, resigning only when stricken with pa- 

 ralysis. Since 1886 he had' lived in Norfolk. 



Pierson, Henry R., banker, born in Charleston, Mont- 

 gomery County, N. Y., June 13, 1819; died in Al- 

 bany, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1890. -He spent his early years 

 on a farm, was graduated at Union College in 1846, 

 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 

 1849 he removed to Brooklyn, and he was in active 

 practice there till 1860, wh^n he was elected president 

 of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company. He also- 

 served as a member of the Board of Education and as 

 President of the Board of Aldermen, and was elected 

 a State Senator in 1866. In 1869 he went to Chicago- 

 as financial agent of the Northwestern Railroad Com- 

 pany, ot which he afterward became vice-president. 

 In 1871 he was chosen resident executive director of the 

 New York Central Railroad Company at Albany, in 

 1875 he established a banking house in that city, and 

 in 1879 was a member of the State Assembly and chair- 

 man of its committees on cities and on railroads. He 

 was elected a trustee of Union College, of the Albany 

 Medical College, and of Dudley Observatory in 1870, 

 a regent of the University of the State of New York 

 in 1872, vice-chancellor of the university in 1878, and 

 its chancellor in 1881. 



Pollock, James, lawyer, born in Milton, Pa., Sept. 

 11, 1810; died in Lock Haven, Pa., April 19, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Princeton in 1831, and was 

 elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket, though 

 a Whig in politics, in 1842, 1844, and 1846. While in 

 Congress he was one of the first Representatives to 

 urge legislation for the construction of a railroad to 

 the Pacific coast. In 1850 he was appointed iuclge of 

 the 8th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and in 1854 

 was elected Governor of the Stated declining a renom- 

 ination. In May, 1861, he was appointed Director of 

 the United States Mint at Philadflphia ; and he held 

 the office till Oct. 1, 1866, when he resigned. Presi- 



