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annual elections till November, 1885, when he 

 was appointed United States Senator to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Jacob Colla- 

 mer, whose term would have expired in 1867. 

 Just before this appointment he had been re- 

 elected to the Supreme Court, of which he 

 was chief-justice, by virtue of promotion in 

 1860. During his brief term as United States 

 Senator he served on the committees on ju- 

 diciary, patents, and the Patent-Office. He 

 was an uncompromising Republican, and while 

 in the Senate was a delegate to the Loyalists' 

 Convention in Philadelphia. Before his term 

 as Senator expired, he was elected a Repre- 

 sentative in Congress, stepping from the higher 

 to the lower House on March 4, 1867. He was 

 re-elected in 1868, 1870, 1872, and 1882. 

 Judge Poland was chairman of the committee 

 on revision of the laws of the United States, 

 had charge of the revision of the United States 

 statutes, and was chairman of the select com- 

 mittee on Credit Mobilier. During the inter- 

 val of his service in Congress he accepted a 

 term in the State Legislature. 



Poore, Ben i Perley, an American journalist, 

 born in Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 2, 1820; 

 died in Washington, D. 0., May 29, 1887. His 

 parents took him to the national capital when 

 he was seven years old, and four years later 

 he accompanied them to Europe. On their 

 return he was placed in a military school to 

 prepare for admission to the United States 

 Military Academy, but, disliking the choice, 

 ran away and apprenticed himself to a printer 

 in Worcester, Mass. After he had served his 

 time, his father purchased the " Southern 

 Whig" newspaper in Atlanta, Ga., and sent 

 him South to edit and manage it. He remained 

 there two years, when, on returning to Wash- 

 ington, he was appointed an attache of the 

 American legation in Belgium. While abroad 

 he visited nearly every portion of Europe, the 

 Holy Land, and Lower Egypt, and wrote many 

 letters to the Boston "Atlas" about Europe 

 and the East. He also made a valuable col- 

 lection of historical manuscripts for the State 

 of Massachusetts from the French archives. In 

 1854 he became Washington correspondent of 

 several newspapers, notably the Boston " Jour- 

 nal," to which he contributed periodical letters, 

 under the signature of " Perley," on the ad- 

 vance news, social happenings, and political 

 and diplomatic gossip of the day till 1884. 

 He served in the national army during the 

 civil war. Among his published works are 

 "Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe" (1848); 

 " Life of General Taylor" (1848) ; " Early Life 

 of Napoleon" (1851); "The Political Register 

 and Congressional Directory" (1878); and 

 " Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the 

 National Metropolis" (1886). He edited the 

 volumes of the "Conspiracy Trials" in 1865, 

 and, for many years, as clerk of printing rec- 

 ords, compiled the " Congressional Directory " 

 for each session of Congress. His summer 

 home, Indian Hill Farm, near Newburyport, 



was a veritable museum of art and antiquity, 

 and a favorite resort of historians. 



Potter, Horatio, an American clergyman, born 

 in Beekman (now La Grange), Dutchess 

 County, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1802 ; d. in New York 

 city, Jan. 2, 1887. He was the youngest of ten 

 children of Joseph and Ann (Knight) Potter, 

 the ninth being Alonzo, who became bishop 



of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Penn- 

 sylvania. Horatio received an academic edu- 

 cation in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and was gradu- 

 ated at Union College in 1826. He was made 

 a deacon July 15, 1827, and priest Dec. 14, 

 1828. From the date of his ordination till 1833 

 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natu- 

 ral Philosophy in Washington (now Trinity) 

 College, Hartford, Conn., and in 1833 he de- 

 clined the presidency of the college, and became 

 rector of St. Peter's Church, Albany, N. Y., 

 where he remained till 1854. On the death 

 of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Wainwright, provisional 

 bishop of the diocese of New York, in the lat- 

 ter year, Dr. Potter was chosen to succeed 

 him, and was consecrated in Trinity Church, 

 New York city, on Nov. 22, 1854, by Bishops 

 T. C. Browne!!, of Connecticut; J. H. Hop- 

 kins, of Vermont ; G. W. Doane, of New Jer- 

 sey ; S. A. McCoskry, of Michigan ; W. R. 

 Whittingham, of Maryland ; H. W. Lee, of 

 Iowa; and F. Fulford, of Montreal, Canada. 

 Although consecrated as " provisional" bishop, 

 he was invested with all the functions of the 

 episcopate, the canon providing f<>r the elec- 

 tion of a "provisional bishop" having been 

 passed in 1850 to obviate the evil of the diocese 

 being virtually without a bishop, Bishop Ben- 

 jamin T. Onderdonk being still alive but under 

 suspension from the episcopal office since 

 1844. Bishop Onderdonk died early in 1861, 

 and Dr. Potter then became bishop of the dio- 

 cese in name as he had been in fact. It was a 

 curious coincidence that the Potter brothers 

 Alonzo, in Pennsylvania, and Horatio, in New 



