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-.. Dec. 17. 1896. He was educated in the pub- 

 lic schools and the Normal School at Bridgewater ; 

 removed to Dorchester in 1849 ; became connected 

 ' with a chocolate manufactory in the following 

 rear, and took entire charge of the establishment 

 : !e was in active politics from 1*48 : took 

 part in the organization of the Free-soil party in 

 was first elected to the Legislature 

 !ayor of Boston in 1872: and was 



1 to Congress as a Republican in 1873 and 



declining a re-election : 

 ing a re-election as mayor the same year. Since 



.e had acted with the Democrats. Mr. Pierce 

 acquired a large fortune, and his bequests to rela- 

 tives, friends, and charitable institutions were very 

 large. Among the latter were Harvard Univr - 



General Hospital, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. Boston Museum of Fine 

 and Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. $50,000 

 each : the town of Stoughton for books for a free 

 library. $25.000 : the Massachusetts Charitable Eye 

 and Ear Infirmary. Children's Hospital, Perki: 

 statute for the Blind. New England Hospital for 

 Women and Children, Home for Aged Men, Home 

 for Aged Women. Home for Aged Couples. Boston 

 Home for Incurables, Society for the Collegiate In- 

 struction of Women. Massachusetts Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Boston Ly- 

 ing-in Hospital. $20.000 each : Massachusetts Com- 

 mandery. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Home 

 for Aged Colored Women. Channing Home, and 

 Children's Aid Society. 5.000 each : the Methodist, 

 Baptist, Orthodox. Unitarian, and Roman Catholic 

 Societiejs of Dorchester Lower Mills and the Episco- 

 pal Society of Ashmont. $3.000 each. : He bequeathed 

 the residue of his estate to the Museum of Fine 



Harvard University. Massachusetts General 

 Hospital. Institute of Technology, and the Homoeo- 

 pathic Hospital, in equal parts. He also provided 

 for the transfer of his valuable farm adjoining the 

 Blue Hills reservation to the Boston Park Commis- 

 sion, to be added to the park lands of the city. 



Pomeroj. Martn> Mill* journalist, born in 

 Elmira, N. Y.. Dec. .' : died in Brooklyn. 



30. 1896. He was" apprenticed to the 

 printer's trade in the office of the Corning i> 

 -Journal."" and three years afterward established 

 the Corning ~ Sun,"* which he sold to good advan- 

 tage in a year, and then established the ~ Athens 



:e." "The last venture was unsuccessful. In 

 851 he removed to Horicon. Wis_ established the 

 - Argus " there, and became deputy United States 

 marshal for Wisconsin. While in Horicon he 

 wrote for his paper a series of sketches of well- 

 known men of Wisconsin, which he named ~ Brick- 

 dust Sketches." whence he came to be best known 

 as " Brick ~ Pomeroy. Through his strong support 

 - ephen A. Douglas he lost his Government 

 office. Soon afterward he abandoned the 

 then went to Milwaukee and became city editor of 

 the ~Da: and subsequently secured an 



interest in the La Crosse - Union and Democrat." 

 On the last paper he was associated with George 

 Swinford. a strong Breckinridge Democrat. Mr. 

 Pomeroy "s devotion to Douglas became more in- 

 tensified than ever, and bitter dissensions arose 

 between the two editors, Mr. Swinford controlled 

 the inside pages of the paper and Mr. Pomeroy the 

 outside ones, and week after week the rival parti- 

 sans expressed their opinions and severely criticised 

 each other in their respective pages of the same 

 issue of the paper. Mr. Pomeroy succeeded in 

 gaining entire control of the paper, and in 1868 he 

 was one of the largest taxpayers in the county and 

 his paper had a circulation of 100,000 copies. In 

 the early part of the civil war he was a strong 

 Union man, aided in fitting out several companies 



-1 went to the front to observ- 

 military operations. Suddenly he began denoun- 

 cing the commanders of the National armies, charg? 

 ing that they paid more attention to the business of 

 n brokerage than to their military duties, and 

 for these publications he was ordered out of the 

 lines and returned home. During the remainder of 

 the war he continually denounced the policy of the 

 Federal Government.* For a long time the office 

 of the paper was kept in readiness to repel invt,- 

 by indignant citizens, and Mr. Pomeroy hid in the 

 woods 40 miles away, sending his manuscript to the 

 office by messengers. After the war be removed to 

 York and founded the "Daily Democrat," 

 which in time was succeeded by a weekly. ~ Pom- 

 - Democrat." Within a short time his La 

 Crosse and Xew York papers failed. In 1876 he be- 

 gan to edit a greenback organ in Chicago. He wrote 

 much on greenback currency and personally organ- 

 ized 8.000 greenback clubs throughout the eoi. 

 His last scheme was to tunnel the Rocky mountains. 

 He formed a company with a capital of $7.000.000. 

 cut nearly a mile on each side of the mountains, 

 and then, through failure to secure aid from the 

 Government, abandoned the project. 



\>h Henri, military officer, born in 

 Dublin. Ireland, in 1841 : died in New York 

 Jan. 27. 1896. He came to the United States in 

 youth and settled in Virginia. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he enlisted in a New York infantry 

 regiment, though his father and friends clung to 

 the Confederacy, and at the close he held the rank 

 of colonel of volunteers and was badly shattered in 

 health from wounds and disease. Subsequently he 

 was a general in the army of Venezuela for 'two 

 years, and in the Egyptian army for five years. On 

 his return to the United States he opened a law 

 office in New York. He was a keen sportsman and 

 owned the yacht ~ Ventura No. 1." 



I'ratt. Calvin Edward, jurist, born in Prince- 

 ton. Mass.. Jan. 23. 1828 : died in Rochester. Mass.. 

 Aug. 3. 1896. He was educated at Wilbraham 

 Academy ; taught at Uxbridge. Sutton, and Worces- 

 ter : and" studied law, and was admitted to the bar 

 at Worcester in 1852. In the early part of his prac- 

 tice he made a study of medicine and anatomy in 

 their relation to jurisprudence, and became an ex- 

 pert in those branches. He was a member of the 

 Democratic State Central Committee. In 1859 he re- 

 moved to Brooklyn, N. Y. While living in Worces- 

 ter he had been interested in military matters, held 

 offices in the Worcester Light Infantry, and became 

 major of the 10th Massachusetts Infantry. In 1861 

 he organized the 31st New York Volunteers at his 

 own expense and went with it to the front as its colo- 

 nel. For his gallantry at Bull Run he was recom- 

 mended for promotion : at the battle of Mechanics- 

 ville, Jan. 29. 1862, he was severely wounded in the 

 face: and on Sept. 10 following he was commis- 

 sioned a brigadier general of volunteers. He after- 

 ward served at Antietam. Fredericksburg. and Chan- 

 cellorsville. and resigned his commission April 1, 

 - ;jc was appointed collector of inter- 

 nal revenue in Brooklyn : in 1869 was elected judge 

 of the Supreme Court of the 2d District of 

 York on the nomination of both political parties : 

 and in 1877 was re-elected as the candidate of both 

 parties for the term of fourteen years. On the 

 creation of the appellate division of the Supreme 

 Court in 1895. he was appointed an associate justice, 

 and he held the office till bis death. 



Pratt. Enoch, philanthropist, born in North 

 Middled r 10. 1808; died in Tivoli. 



Md^ Sept, 17. 18i*>. H:s education was acquired in 

 the public schools and the Bridgewater Academy. 

 He worked in a commercial bouse in Boston f 

 vears. and in 1831 established himself in the com- 



