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John Alsop Paine, archaeologist, died July 24, 1912. He was born in Newark, N. J., 

 January 14, 1840, and studied at Andover for the Congregational ministry (ordained 1867). 

 He also studied science at several universities of the United States and Germany. He was 

 engaged in research work on the flora of New York state, 1862-67, and afterwards taught 

 natural science at Robert College, Constantinople, Lake Forest University, 111., and the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. In 1871-72 he was associate editor of 

 The Independent (New York). He was archaeologist of the first expedition of the Palestine 

 Exploration Society in 1872-74; edited and conducted the Journal of Christian Philosophy 

 (1882-84), was curator of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1889-1906, and was also 

 on the staff of the Century Dictionary. 



William Paret, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland since 1884, died on January 18, 

 1911. He was born in New York City, September 23, 1826, graduated at Hobart College 

 in 1849, was ordained in 1852 upon leaving the Hobart Divinity School, was rector suc- 

 cessively in Clyde and Pierrepont Manor, N. Y., East Saginaw, Michigan, Elmira, N. Y., 

 Williamsport, Penna., and Washington, D. C., and wrote_5/. Peter and the Primacy of the 

 Roman See and Our Freedom and our Catholic Heritage, 



Daniel Kimball Pearsons, philanthropist, died April 27, 1912. He was born in Bradford, 

 Vt., April 14, 1820. He practised medicine in Massachusetts from 1842 to 1857, was a 

 farmer in Illinois until 1860, and then engaged in the real-estate business in Chicago, from 

 which he retired in 1887. He was childless and gave away his entire fortune^ he lived on 

 an annuity during his last years to 30 colleges in 20 different states (especially Chicago 

 Theological Seminary, Beloit College, Whitman College, Berea College) and to a public 

 library and museum for Hinsdale, 111., the village in which he made his home. A larger 

 sum had to be raised from other sources before his donations were available, and he gave only 

 to smaller institutions. He was an alderman in Chicago from 1873 to 1876. 



William Alfred Peffer, politician, died at Grenola, Kansas, October 7, 1912. He was 

 born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1831. He served as a private in 

 an Illinois regiment during the Civil War, and in 1870 removed to Kansas where he practised 

 law and edited newspapers in Fredonia and Coffeyville. He became a member of the 

 state senate in 1874. I n x 891-97 ne was United States senator from Kansas, being the only 

 member of the Populist party in the Senate. He had been a Republican before the establish- 

 ment of the Populist party, which was largely due to him. In 1898 he was the Prohibitionist 

 candidate for governor. He wrote Myriorama, a National Poem, several novels, The 

 Farmer's Side (1891) and Americanism and the Philippines (1900). 



David Graham Phillips, novelist, died January 24, 1911. He was born in Madison, Ind., 

 October 31, 1867, and graduated at Princeton in 1887. After a short career as a journalist 

 he devoted his time to the writing of fiction. He wrote The Great God Success (1901); The 

 Golden Fleece (1903); The Cost (1904); The Plum Tree (1905); Light Fingered Gentry (1907); 

 The Second Generation (1907); Old Wives for New (1908); and, posthumously published, 

 The Grain of Dust (1911) and The Price She Paid. He presented, rather crudely, the social 

 and economic problems of modern American life, especially in high society. He was mur- 

 dered by a deranged man who imagined that his family had been satirised in Phillips's novel, 

 The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig. 



Arthur Tappan Pierson, Presbyterian clergyman and editor, died June 3, 1911. He was 

 born in New York City, March 6, 1837 and was ordained in the ministry upon graduation 

 from the Union Theological Seminary in 1860. He filled pulpits in Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 Philadelphia, and elsewhere, and in 1888 became editor of the Missionary Review of the 

 World. His knowledge of the missionary field was very extensive and he was prominent in 

 religious conferences at Northfield, Mass., of which he was a leader after the death of D. L. 

 Moody. A trip around the world in the interest of foreign missions was interrupted by ill 

 health in Korea. Dr. Pierson published about 30 oooks on missions and other religious 

 subjects. See the biography (New York, 1912) by Delavan Leonard Pierson. 



Louis McClellan Potter, sculptor, died in Seattle, Washington, August 29, 1912, possibly 

 as a result of treatment by a Chinese physician. He was born in Troy, New York, Novem- 

 ber 14, 1873, graduated at Trinity College (Hartford) in 1896 and studied in Paris under 

 Luc-Olivier Merson and Jean Dampt. In Tunis and Alaska he studied native types. His 

 work, first realistic and then imaginative, includes a memorial in Hartford (1909) to Horace 

 Wells and "Earthbound," a symbolic piece for the New York Child's W.elfare Exhibit. 



Joseph Pulitzer, editor and journalist, died October 29, 1911. He was born at Budapest 

 Hungary, April 10, 1847. He emigrated to America practically penniless in 1864, served in 

 the Union army through the Civil War, and became a reporter on the St. Louis Westliche 

 Post in 1868, rising to be editor and part owner. This paper he combined with the St. Louis 

 Dispatch, which he bought in 1878. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives 

 in 1869 and was connected with the Liberal Republican movement in Missouri in 1872. In 

 1876-77 he reported for the New York Sun the proceedings of the Electoral Commission. 

 In 1883 he bought from Jay Gould the New York World (see E. B. xix, 56gc) which, although 

 sensational, through a fearless editorial policy of combatting political evils became one of the 

 most influential journals of the United States. In 1885 he was elected a Democratic member 

 of Congress but resigned after a few months' service. His later years, owing to failing eye- 



