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iirineipal upj>orter of the Presbyterian church at 

 lla/elton; and irave freely t<> tin- various ehai 

 Parker, Henry G., journalist, horn in I'ly mouth, Mans., 

 i; died in Huston, Mass.. May 18, 1892. Hewai 

 educated in liis native tow n, and on removing ' 



nine confidential clerk in a mercantile estab- 

 lishment in I-.'.'. For several years previously ho 

 wrote frequently tor newspapers, uini on May 7, 1870, 

 he jmreha.-eil the "Saturday Kveiiimr Gazette," of 

 which he was editor ami publisher till his death. In 



id 1>7~ lie was general secretary of the e.\eeii 

 live coiinuiilees of the National Peace Jubilees, and 

 in 187> he served on the stuff of Gov. Talbot. 



Parsons, Thomas William, poet. I mm in Boston, Mass., 

 Aiiir. 1*. 1MH; died at Seituate, Mass.. Sept. ::. ls;i-_'. 

 - the son of a physician, and was educated at 

 thi Boston Latin School. At seventeen lie went to 

 Kurone, and lived for several years in Italy, where he 

 translated the first ten cantos of the " Inferno," which 

 he published in Boston on his return in 1843. He 

 stu.fied at the Harvard Medical School, and practiced 

 dentistry for several years in his native city; but, 

 iihimdoninu' this profession, he went again to Europe, 

 reniainiiiir there from 1847 till 1853. fn 1854 he pub- 

 lished a volume of his collected poems in Boston, with 

 the title of" Ghetto di Roma." In this collection was 

 the famous poem "On a Bust of Dante," which has 

 won enduring fame. His verse was never popular, 

 although he possessed the lyric faculty in no small 

 measure. But his range of thought was too elevated, 

 his fancy too delicate, and even, at times, too involved 

 ill the popular ear, and he is likely therefore to 

 remain a poet of the few. His scholarship within its 

 lines was most profound and thorough, and his trans- 

 lation of Dante is characterized by a sympathetic fidel- 

 ity to the original, which some critics have considered 

 unsurpassed. After " Ghetto di Roma," his published 

 works include a completed translation of the " In- 

 ferno" (Boston, 1867); "The Magnolia, and other 

 Poems" (printed privately, 1867) ; "The Old House 

 at Sudbury" (1870); "The Shadow of the Obelisk, 

 and other Poems" (1872). His latest volume, a ren- 

 deriiiir in verse of the collects of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, appeared in 1892, with the title " Cir- 

 cuin Pnecordia" (Boston). 



Fatten, Abby Hutohinapn, singer, born in New Hamp- 

 shire, Aug. 29, 18'29 ; died in New York city, Nov. 24, 

 1892. She was the youngest of the Hutchmson fam- 

 ily of singers, which comprised the quartette, Judson, 

 John, Asa, and Abby, and is 

 survived only by her brother 

 John. She joined her brothers 

 on a concert tour when twelve 

 years old, and when she was 

 fourteen the quartette gave 

 their first concert in New York 

 city, and excited an inteiv-t 

 still remembered. The fam- 

 ily was in sympathy with the 

 antislavery movement, and the 

 sinirers naturally gave patri- 

 otic songs a large share on 

 their programmes. Amonv 

 their most popular songs at 

 this time were those composed 

 by one of the brothers, Jesse, 



entitled: "The Old Granite State," "The Slave 

 Mother," "Get off the Track," "Uncle Sam is rich 

 enough," " I'ity, Kind Gentlemen," and "The Slave's 

 Appeal." The family made their first trip to Great 

 Britain in 1845, and were cordially received, l>oth in 

 the concert hall and in the highest social circles. In 

 1849 Abby married Ludlow 1'atton of New York city, 

 and after marriage sang only occasionally with her 

 brothers, but always responded to calls to sing for 

 charity. Mrs. Patton had set to music the well- 

 known songs, "Kind words can never die" and 

 " Kin,'- out, Wild Bells." and had recently issued a 

 volume entitled a A Handful of Pebbles." 



Pauli, Bichard, painter, born in Chicago, 111., in 1855 : 

 died in Morris Plains, N. J., July 31,1892. He studied 



landscape painting with Duuhigny and Francois, and 

 showed much talent and promise. He exhibited at 

 the National Academy in 1W6, 1887. 1888, 1889, and 

 1892, and at the American Water-Color Society ex- 

 hibition in isi'O. His principal paintings were rlven- 

 ing," " A Glimpse from Weehawkcn," " Springtime 

 on the Hackensack," " A Breezy Day," " Morning 

 Valley of the Hackensack," " A Spring Pastoral," 

 " Twilight," and " Evening," and uie water colon 

 " Springtime " and " Pont d'Aute.uil, Paris." 



Peck, William Guy, educator, born in Litchfield. 

 Conn., Oct. iii, 1*20; died In Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 

 7, 1892. He was graduated at the I'ni ed States Mili- 

 tary Academy ana brevetted 2d lieutenant of Topo- 

 graphical Engineers in 1844; served with John C. 

 Fremont in his third expedition to the Rocky moun- 

 tains ; was on duty with the army of the West under 

 Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, in the Mexican War; and 

 after the war was Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 and Mathematics at the Military Academy till Oct. 2, 

 Is."-.",, when he resigned his military commission. On 

 leaving West Point he was Professor of Physics and 

 Civil Engineering in the University of Michigan till 

 June 29, 1857, when he was appointed adjunct Pro- 

 fessor of Pure Mathematics at Columbia College. Two 

 years afterward he was made full professor. In 1861 his 

 title was changed to that of Professor of Mathematics 

 and Astronomy in the School of Arts ; in 1865 he was 

 made Professor of Mechanics in the School of Mines, 

 and in 1890 Professor of Higher Mathematics and 

 Astronomy in both departments of the College. 

 Prof. Peck's publications include " The Mathemat- 

 ical Dictionary" and the " Cyclopaedia of Mathemat- 

 ical Science," both of which were edited in conjunc- 

 tion with his father-in-law, Prof. Charles Davies 

 (1855); "Elementary Mechanics" (1859); an edition 

 of Ganot's "Natural Philosophy" (1860; last re- 

 vised edition, 1881); and a work on "Popular As- 

 tronomy " (1883). 



Pellew, George, journalist, born in the Isle of Wight 

 in 1861 ; died in New York city, Feb. 18-19, 1892. 

 lie came to the United States .while a boy; was 

 graduated at Harvard in 1880, and at the Cambridge 

 Law School in 1883 : was admitted to the bar in Bos- 

 ton and in New York city, but preferred literary work 

 to law practice. While at Harvard he edited the 

 " Harvard Advocate," wrote the Hastv Pudding Club's 

 poem, and the graduating-class oue, and won the 

 Ballston prize with an essavon"Jane Austen." In 

 1887 he traveled through Ireland, and in 1888 removed 

 to New York city, where he was employed on the 

 editorial staff' of " The Sun" and in writing for peri- 

 odicals. He contributed to the " American States- 

 men Series " a " Life of Chief-Justice Jay," his ma- 

 ternal grandfather, and published his impressions ot 

 Ireland in "Castle and Cabin." He was found dead 

 in an areaway. 



Perkins, Charles Allen, diplomatist, bom in Salisbury, 

 Conn., in 1832; died in Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 22, 

 1892. He was educated in Auburn, N. V., and in 

 Paris, and was appointed United States consul and 

 Secretary of Legation at Stockholm, with Gen. Joseph 

 J. Bartle'ttas United States minister. During the ad- 

 ministration of Gen. Grant, Mr. Perkins returned to 

 Washington and was appointed United States consul 

 at Barcelona. Spain, where ho remained during the 

 revolution. Subsequently he was appointed United 

 States minister to Portugal, and while living in Lis- 

 bon he fell in love with" the Countess Marie Isabella 

 Francoise, daughter of Count Ignace Gurowsky and 

 of her roval highness Isabella de Bourbon, Infanta of 

 Spain. They were married Nov. 12, 1870, ex-King 

 Don Francisco and ex-Queen Isabella standing as 

 god-parents of the bride ; Admiral Glisson, U. 

 the United States minister, the United States consul. 



ever contracted a marriage with a person of royal 

 blood, lived happily with liis wife and her family till 

 the Carlist uprising in Spain in 1874. At that time 



