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study of law with George W. Nesmith, was 

 admitted to the Merrimack County bar in 1845, 

 and became a successful practitioner in Frank- 

 lin. He was at first a partner of Judge Nes- 

 mith, then associated with himself Daniel Bar- 

 nard until 1863; subsequently was with Isaac 

 N. Blodgett, now a Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, and later with Frank N. Parsons. Mr. 

 Pike was an earnest and active politician in 

 the Whig party, and became early associated 

 with Daniel Webster. He was a member of 

 the State House of Representatives from Frank- 

 lin in 1850, '51, '52, '65, '66, and Speaker of 

 that body the last two years. In 1856 he was 

 a delegate to the Republican National Conven- 

 tion in Philadelphia that nominated Gen. John 

 C. Fremont for the presidency. He was a 

 member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1857 

 and 1858, and its president in 1858. He was 

 chairman of the Republican State Committee 

 in 1858-'60. In 1873 he was chosen a member 

 of the national House of Representatives, 

 where he was a member of the Committee on 

 Elections; but when a candidate for re-elec- 

 tion was defeated by frauds in Ward 5, Man- 

 chester. In 1883 Mr. Pike was chosen U. S. 

 Senator for six years from the preceding March 

 4 to succeed Edward H. Rollins, after a long 

 and notable contest between many candidates. 

 He had not previously been a candidate, but a 

 compromise was effected on him. He held 

 important places on committees, and was an 

 able, dignified, and courteous Senator. At his 

 death he was President of the Citizens' Na- 

 tional Bank, of Tilton, and a member of the 

 Board of Trustees of the Franklin Library Asso- 

 ciation. 



Pitkin, Frederick W., an American lawyer, 

 born in Manchester, Conn., Aug. 31, 1837; 

 died in Pueblo, Col., Dec. 18, 1886. He was 

 graduated at Wesleyan University, Middle- 

 town, Conn., in 1858 ; entered the Albany Law 

 School, and after being graduated there went 

 West in 1860, and began to practice his profes- 

 sion in Milwaukee, Wis. Here he advanced 

 to promising prospects both in legal and politi- 

 cal directions, when failing health compelled 

 him to give up business and seek recuperation 

 abroad. In 1873 he was prostrated in Switz- " 

 erland, and was brought home in the follow- 

 ing year so ill that his family believed him to 

 be in a dying condition. He then removed to 

 Colorado and engaged in rough labor at the 

 mines with beneficial results. He soon regained 

 sufficient strength to resume his practice and 

 to take an activo interest again in political 

 affairs. In 1878 he was elected Governor oi 

 the new State and was re-elected in 1880, as a 

 Republican. He was prompt and fearless dur- 

 ing the riots at Leadville, his energetic action 

 preventing the loss of many lives and the de- 

 struction of much valuable property. He was 

 urged to become a candidate for United States 

 Senator in 1 883 when Senator Teller became a 

 member of President Arthur's Cabinet, but his 

 health would not permit. 



Pnrdy, Alfred S., an American physician, born 

 in New York city, in 1808; died there, July 

 22, 1886. He was educated at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, Middletown, Conn., and at the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, 

 and after being graduated was appointed an 

 assistant physician in Bellevue Hospital. Later 

 he became attached to the New York Dispen- 

 sary and the Lying-in Asylum. Dr. Purdy had 

 been in active practice as a physician and sur- 

 geon for over fifty-five years. He was Presi- 

 dent of the Alumni Association of the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, and a member of 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, the 

 Pathological Society, and the Medical Society 

 of the city, and had been a trustee of St. Paul's 

 M. E. Church for many years. 



Quartlcy, Arthur, an American artist, born in 

 Paris, France, in 1839; died in New York 

 city, May 19, 1886. He was brought to this 

 country when thirteen years old, and for sev- 

 eral years worked at sign-painting in New 

 York and Baltimore. In 1873 he gave him- 

 self up to the study of art, and soon attracted 

 favorable notice as a marine painter. He set- 

 tled in New York in 1876, and was elected a 

 member of the National Academy of Design a 

 few days before his death. His principal paint- 

 ings are : " Trinity from the River," " The 

 Queen's Birthday," "Port of New York," 

 "Dignity and Impudence," "Morning Effect," 

 " North River," and " The Coast of Cornwall." 



Randall, David Austin, an American author, 

 born in Colchester, Conn., Jan. 14, 1813 ; died 

 in Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 1884. He re- 

 ceived his schooling only in country schools 

 and at Canandaigua (N. Y.) Academy, and was 

 mainly self-educated. He became a Baptist 

 clergyman, and was chaplain of the Ohio asy- 

 lum for the insane in 1854-'56 ; pastor of a 

 church in Columbus in 1858-'66, and corre- 

 sponding secretary of the Ohio Baptist Con- 

 vention in 1850-'63. He was for many years 

 editor of the "Washingtonian," the first tem- 

 perance paper in Ohio, and in 1845- '53 edited 

 the "Cross and Journal," a Baptist paper. 

 He was also widely known as a lecturer, and 

 had various mercantile interests, being a mem- 

 ber of a book-selling firm and director of a 

 bank. He traveled in Egypt and Palestine in 

 1861-'62, and in Europe in 1867. He was 

 the author of " God's Handwriting in Egypt, 

 Sinai, and the Holy Land," of which 100,000 

 copies were sold (2 vols., 8vo, Philadelphia, 

 1862), and " Ham-Mishkan, the Wonderful 

 Tent : a Study of the Structure, Significance, 

 and Symbolism of the Hebrew Tabernacle" 

 (Cincinnati, 1886). He left unfinished a life 

 of Moses and a work on the miracles of Christ. 

 He had received the degree of D. D. 



Richardson, Edmund, an American planter, 

 born in Caswell County, N. 0., June 28, 1818 ; 

 died in Jackson, Miss., Jan. 11, 1886. He at- 

 tended a "field" school for three years, then 

 found employment in a store in Danville, Va., 

 and at the age of sixteen settled in Jackson, 



