OBIT! AIM IS. AMK1MCAX. (!KYTOX Pi. 



(hil.lr.-n in the Wood" (1847) was bon. 

 late Prince Consort, and is now in (^UCHM, 

 collection at Osborne. Tho"(iirl ami Kitt. 

 , wm -I b\ is.- N ' i..il Aeademj of IX riga Jen- 

 nie's Pet n was exhibited in the loan 

 politan Muwum in the season- 



and "Sunny Days of Childh ..... i " i- owned m Chi- 

 cago. Among his other works in t i 



-t Lesson in Knittii;. 



-epon I>iit\."--Th. 



ray.-r for Health.'" " The Moun- 



Wreathof Wild FlowwtV Other woman "High- 

 land - The Little Laundress," "Kecit 



,.t of (iossip." and "The IlirdV 

 ile \\a- a member of tin- Society of 



.unl exhibited frequently in London 

 and New York. 



IV) ton. Jesse Kiilons. " father of centenn 



: ^yc-villc. Nicholas Count . Hi. 



. in liaddoofield, X. J n April 



up on his father's farm, and <>n 

 attaining hi- majority wont to work in a general 

 store at Flat !<< k. Ky. In 1841 he removed to 

 Philadelphia and entered a dry-goods house, in which 

 he subsequently became a part i afterward, 



on being Informed that Henry Clay was financially 

 embarrassed. h- i -uflicient funds among 



mercantile acuaintances to 



arngan 



liquidate Mr. Clay's debts. In 1854 he retired 



from business, and acquired large interests in >al 



in what a. He also be- 



. in jM.litics. In .January, 1860, he made 



a tour of the principal Southern cr . ince 



him-clf of the probable extent of the threatened 



8oessi<>n. The same year he was one of the found- 



Philadelphia of what became known as the 



Constitutional I'nion party, and represented the 



in- convention that 



Mated John Bell and Edward Fverctt for 

 President and Vice-President. After President Lin- 

 coln's inauguration he sent Mr. Peyton on a secret 

 mission to Kentucky to endeavor to restrain the 

 from leaving the t'nion. Sul-equMitIy Mr. 

 Peyton organized the first cavalry regiment that 

 reached Washington at the beginning of the civil 

 war. and the 3d and llth Pennsylvania Volunteers, 

 paying all the expenses personally. He wa- 

 DM wn in later days as the " father of centennials," 

 as he had suggested and done much to promote the 

 centennial observance of Indepcn<i Hun- 



ker Hill. Yorktown, Va.. and the inauguration of 

 American constitutional government. His last 

 no was to organ. brat ion of the l.irth 



of Jesus Christ by all Christian nations, in Jeru- 



. in 1900. 



Phil lip-. Stephen II.. lawyer, horn in Salem, 



Ma*.,about 1823; die.] there, A pi II- 



was graduated at Harvard College it > idled 



at 1 >ane Law School, and was admitted to the bar 



in 1M;. During 1847-50 he edited the -Boston 



Law in the last year removed to 



Salem, and in 1851 was appointed di-trict at- 



v for Kswx County. He served two years 



and from 1858 to*1861 



neralof Massaclm- ward 



he was judge advocate general of the State militia. 



-'6 he was appointed by King Kamehameha V 



Attor 'iment and 



one of the fo<. ministers. He held this 



office till I*?.*, and during that period frequently 



Cted Mftli: m Affair? and of Finance. 



Picknell \Villiam Lamb, painter. M,rn in 



died in Marbl, 



Mass., Aug. 8, 1897. When ^ventoeri years old he 

 went to Europe and studied painting. He ex- 

 hibited at the Royal Academy in London and at 



fo' 



^aloii. He returned to the United ^ 

 ->.' with bi,- niiL:-. hsi\inu' ^"1,1 n.-arly 



all his work abroad. In l ss l he rc-ci\ -.1 a .-il\ .-V 

 medal at the M ' ;,. and in 



1884 a gold medal. lie was < 



. of American Artisfe (n l s ^<>. and of the 



Society of Hriti.sh Arti-t- in 1884 ipeci- 



of his landscapes are m the Walker Art (ial- 



lerv in l.iverj I. tl nn ..f Art 



in New York, i i'me Arts in PH.-.I.IH. 



the Art Museum in Philadelphia, and th 

 (Jallery in Pitt-bun:. II rthy wonu 



are " Routx . for which he 



received th. Lipj-ii, n Phiiadeli>hia and a 



;; at Atlanta in ! the 



i " (l^sii,; A Stormy Day" dsM>; Sun- 

 .shini' and I>ri! 



; - Wintry March " 

 and " After the Storm" (issiir. " - 

 Solitule" f Winter," exhibit 



the Columbian n in 1M3 ; "Old I-'. 



Antibc-." exhibited at the Paris Salon in : 

 ' Morn in i; on the Loini:." for whi.-h he 

 Id medal at t! 95; and" I, 



at .M 



Pierce. i:d;ird l.illic. lawyer,b rn In ^toudi- 



ton. Ma-.. March 'J!. l^H; died in Pa: 



Sept. 5, 1897. He was a brother of Henry Lillie 



Pierce (see obituary in "Annual Cyclo| 



and was graduated at P.n>\vn Tniversity in 

 lV.Man.lat Harvard Law School in I-:,'.'. At'the 

 law st-hool he wa- the pri/e e-sayi-t.and'a year after 

 graduation there he published a paj>-r on **8( 

 SutTraire." which wa< reprinted by the Hall 

 cietyof Kn;;Iund and<|U-. utlmrity on the 



floor of Parliament. As thi.- publi-al ion h-n^ ant- 

 dated the Au-tralian movement, Mr. I 



-ailed the father of ballot reform. In 1- 

 published an elaborate treat i-c mi " American Kail- 

 Law." the first law book on the subject, which 

 was rewritten, expanded, and r.-piiMi-he.i under t he 

 title of -I 1 Railroads "in 1881. Ihmni: the 



Know-nothing excitement of 1857 he publi-i 

 pamphlet, which was widely circulated, mi the 

 Mtie-t r,f ProM-riptive or Extreme L. --i-lat i..n 

 au r ain-t I-'or-iLTners in Ma- 

 land, on Free Labor. Five States, and the Can 



:<>m in the \\ -'. ' II- n turned to . 

 practice, was a delegate to the Republican National 

 Convention in l*o<), and was active in the en 

 canvass. In February. IH'.I, when the Ma adiu- 

 -lature was considering a |>rop<-ition f.,r 

 the repeal of the per-omil Liberty ' law-, he made 

 an eloquent appeal and argument which 

 largely instrumental in preventing the Abrogation 

 or modification of those laws. Soon afterward he 

 enlisted as a private in the :M Ma aehi, 

 ment. and in .Inly was detailed to gather th< 



I lampt'.li. Va.. and ' and 



i-k on the intrenehnieiit-. In I>e- 



cemlH-r. IM;I. hi- term <.f enlistment havin. 



pired. he was sent by Secretary ('ha to the Sea 



I-lands to report on" the ooodmon of then. 



who had fled to the abandoned plantat ion- then-. 



and in March f> B was pla<-ed in cha 1 



them. He found 'J(H) plantations and about !'.- 



000 negroes, caused 15,000 acres to be planted 



in cotton, corn, and potatoe-. organized the ne- 



groes into an orderly community, and. with the 



of tea -hers he took with him. founded 



I'ight the negroes how to become 



ipportini:. Tin- success of his work here Jed 



him to urge the formation of freedmen's aid socie- 



irnilar work elsewhere. In l*f>:{ h- 

 appointed collector of internal revenue for the 'M 



Mass;, ich r.flice lie lu-ld three 



years. From May, 1866, till October, 1869, he was 



