OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PETERS PUTTKAMEB.) 



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lege in 1852, and LI.. I), from the University of |;.,.-h 

 ester in I.M;:(. Twice while holding hlsBfoflMOnhip 

 in Harvard In- was acting president. Hi- was u fre- 

 quent contributor to the- whto Kcvicw" in i- 

 was editor of th " North American Review " in 1 *.':.' 

 'il ; and was u jK-riiKliciil contributor to tlie "Chrif- 1 - 

 iiin K\.Hlm!icr," tin- " New F.nghtnd Magazine," the 

 " American Monthly," und to other publications of a 

 religion*, and educational character. Among his nu- 

 in TOUS books were :" Lectures on Christian Doetri in-" 

 (Boston, 1844); "Sermons of Consolation" (1847); 



Pinneo. Timothy Stone, grammarian, born in Milford, 

 Conn., Fcli. 1*. IMI.J; ,|ii.,l in Norwalk.Conn.. Aug. 2, 

 IMI;(. He was graduated at Vuli- in I v.'-j, und ] u t-r in 

 the medical department ; practiced in the South for 

 several years; oceanic Professor ot I'n lle--|i-urcn in 

 Marietta < 'ollcge, ( )hio ; and on removing to ( 'incin 

 nati began compiling tcxt-b<mks on grammar uhich 

 greatly simplified that study. He published about 

 fifty books in all, and most of them were tran.-lati-d 

 into foreign languages, including Japanese. 1 1 in 

 Iirincijial works were " Pinneo's Series of Gram- 

 mars." " Pinneo's False Syntax," " Pinneo's Com- 

 I>o.-ition Book," and all but the first of the series of 

 Readers." 



Kfininiscciice.s " (1888); and "Harvard Graduates 

 whom I have known" (1890). 



Peters, John 0., bacteriologist, born in New York 

 city in 1819 ; died in East Williston, Long Island, 

 N. Y., Oct. 21, 1898. He was graduated at the New 

 York College of Physicians and Surgeons ; took post- 

 graduate studies in Berlin and Vienna; and had oeefl 

 in practice in New York city since 1842. beginning as 

 a homoeopath and becoming an allopath. For many 

 years he had made a special study of Asiatic cholera, 

 and lie had collected the largest Horary on that subject 

 in the United States. He assisted Dr. Edmund C. 

 Wendt in preparing a treatise on cholera, and in 186fi 

 published " Notes on Asiatic cholera," which has be- 

 come a standard work. In 1873 he visited the 

 cholera-stricken cities in the Southern and South- 

 western States, and his report was published by order 

 of Congress. Five years afterward he rendered in- 

 valuable service in checking the spread of yellow 

 fever. He suggested new remedies in the treatment 

 of consumption, Bright's disease, and membranous 

 croup ; published treatises on diseases of the brain 

 and nervous system; assisted Dr. A. S. Wotherspoon 

 in translating Rokitansky's " Pathological Anatomy " ; 

 and published " .Valeria Medica" (1856-'60). 



Peters, Thomas McClure, clergyman, born in Boston, 

 Ma.-s.. June 6, 1821; died in Peekskill, N. Y., Aug. 

 12-13, 1898. He was graduated at Yale University in 

 1841, and at the General Theological Seminary of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in New York city in 

 1847 ; and was ordained on June 27 of the latter year. 

 He had been a lay reader in the parish of St. Michael, 

 New York city ? since 1842, ana after ordination he 

 was chosen assistant rector there, and on Sept. 'J5, 

 1858, rector. He held this charge till his death, and 

 also that of archdeacon of the diocese of New York 

 from 1892. He received the degree of S. T. D. from 

 Trinity College, Hartford, in 1865. Dr. Peters was a 

 founder of the City Mission, and of the Sheltering 

 Arms; president of the Children's Fold, the Shep- 

 herd's told, and the Home of Rest for Consumptives: 

 director of the Manhattan Hospital ; and member of 

 the New York Historical and Genealogical Societies. 



Pillsbury, Gilbert, abolitionist, born in Hamilton, 

 Mass., Feb. 23, 1813; died in North Abington, Mass., 

 Jan. 3, 1893. He was a brother of Parker Pillsbury, 

 and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. 

 Prior to the beginning of the civil war he taught in 

 the Ellington (Conn.) Academy, and in New Jer- 

 sey ; and with his wife founded and conducted a 

 young ladies' seminary in Ludlow, Mass. He was 

 also an earnest member of the band of Massachusetts 

 abolitionists, and made many sacrifices for the anti- 

 slavery cause. On the organization of the Freedmen's 

 Bureau ho was appointed one of its agents, and as- 

 signed to duty, first at Hilton Head, and afterward at 

 Charleston. With his wife he was active in t he work of 

 cduciitini,' the frecdmen; and at Charleston he was 

 placed in charge of the orphan asylum, and also of 

 abandoned property. During the reconstruction period 

 he aided in framing the new Constitution of South 

 Carolina; wiw Mayor of Charleston three years; and 

 at the close of his term was presented by the citizens 

 with a gold watch and a gold-headed cane. 



Jos6, Cal., and made her first appearance in public as 

 a singer in an amateur entertainment in Sun Francis- 

 co. A juvenile concert troupe was organized, consist- 

 ing of Annie, her sisters Minnie and Lucy, and their 

 brother Augustus, and successful entertainments 

 were given in the principal mining towns of Cali- 

 fornia, and in Oregon and British America. In 1871 

 she married Robert Fulford, and in 1876 she made 

 her first appearance on the dramatic stage, in " Snow- 

 flake," in the San Francisco Grand Opera House. She 

 and her husband played together in a stock company 

 for three years ; tnen she bought a dramatization of 

 Bret Hartc's " M'liss," and set out on a starring tour, 

 with her husband as business manager. She first ap- 

 peared in this play in New York city on Sept. 23, 

 1878, at Niblo's, and in the next ten years presented it 

 with great financial success in all the large cities. 

 She then produced "The Deacon's Daughter, 1 ' and al- 

 ternated that with " M'liss " and a season of comic 

 opera in Is'.il till shortly before her death. 



PreBoott-Shepherd. Marie, actress, born in Paris, Ky., 

 in 1853 ; died in New York city, Aug. 28, 1893. She 

 was a daughter of Judge Victor Prescott, and made 

 her first appearance on the stage as Lady Macbeth in 

 the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, in 1876. Her 

 success in this led to a longer engagement, in which 

 she played the parts of Lady Teazle, Lady Gay 

 Spanker, and Meg Merrilies. m the following year 

 she went to the Brooklyn Theater, playing Alother 

 Fadct to Maggie Mitchell's "Fanchon"; and when 

 Miss Mitchell played a round of her favorite charac- 

 ters in the Standard Theater, New York city. Miss 

 Prescott supported her. Subsequently she supported 

 John McCullough as leading woman, and balvini; 

 appeared in " Rose Michel " : produced " Vera, the 

 Nihilist," by Oscar Wilde, and "A Moral Crime" at 

 the Union Square Theater; and in 1886 began a >tar- 

 ring tour of Western and Southern cities, with Robert 

 D. Shepherd, known on the stage as Robert D. Mc- 

 Lean (whom she married in 1892), producing Shakes- 

 pearean plays chiefly. In 1892 she and her husband 

 appeared in two of ner adaptations, " Cleopatra," and 

 " L'Absintheiir." 



Pnttkamer, Albert von, clergyman, born in Potsdam, 

 Germany, Oct. 4, 1806; died in West Farms, N. Y., 

 March 21, 1893. Graduating t the .Military Institute 

 in Berlin, he WM OOaimhttioned a 2d lieutenant in tin- 

 King's Guard. In 183(5 he resigned, removed to the 

 Tinted States, and became a teacher in Lawrvncc- 

 ville.N. Y. The following year he was received into 

 the Baptist Church, and. with an appointment as 

 agent and colporteur of the Tract Society, engaged 

 in missionary work among his fellow -countrymen. 

 In New York city he organized the First German 

 Baptist Church, which was the first church exclu- 

 sively for Germans in that denomination organized 

 in the United States, and alter ordination in-camo 

 its pastor. Subsequently he organized the German 

 Baptist Church in Huttulo.and was its pastor fourteen 

 years, and similar churches in Cincinnati und Albany, 

 remaining with the latter eleven years. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he entered the Union annv 

 as a chaplain, but soon afterward exchange.! the coin- 

 mission for tli at of a captain of artillery under Gen. 



