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PUARIES, AMERK 



chase and -ain. lumber, ship timber. 



and bark. He also built a lanje steam sawmill, and 

 .!._ iged extonsiv< ;\ in igricull iw u I pet h jrow- 

 elected ta the Legislatui 



.ui.l in l^i'>7 t.. i ho presi- 

 of iho last-named hod\. II- a- el 

 Governor of Delaware in 1870, as a Democrat 



I'ou. i - h.ini. I \\ illi.ri. 



died in l; V V. 



Dec, 11. 1 S '.'T. llf .'- brought up 'ii a fan 

 -k in a hardware More in 1. 



on yean old. and engaged in the bank in- 

 business in 1S.VX Dealings in Government l><>n<l> 

 liinn- tin- civil war Melded him large roturns. ami 

 be subsequently acquired much real e-t.v.. ll< 

 erected tl Hotel an.l tho Pow. r- r,,m- 



.! Buildini; in Rochester, and established an 

 art Caller* and a law library, tho last containing tho 

 law library of Kitseoo OonkUBf 



Pre*ton. Manrant .Inn kin. ..uthor. Wii in 



Philadolpi is-j:,: ,li,.,l in Baltimore. M.I.. 



Man-. 1 She WM A daughter of the 



Georp- .Imikin. founder an.l President of Lafayette 



and President of Washington 



College, Lex iiiirt on. \"a. Kr.m tho tinio f hor inar- 



1 -Im T. I.. Pre-ton. of tho Virginia 



Military Instituto. in I*:,;, till tho death of hor tm- 



. about 1891. she lived at I Mr-. 



u'an contribu 1 



in Philadelphia, in 1*4!. and published her 



iNH.k. "Sihvrw .el. in !*:,<}. After 



h.-r marriage she became a frequent contributor. 

 chiefly in vorso. to tho "Southern Literary Messen- 



' During the civil war she wrote h.-r best-known 

 volume of verse, a narrative poem entitled " Beech- 



k" (New York. 1866), which made her ex- 

 tremely IH. pillar in tho .South. "Old Songs and 

 New " "appeared in 1 s To. The "Book of Mono- 

 grams" contains an account of the rumblings of 



f and her husband in Kuropo after the war. 



work- include "Cartoon- * F,,r 



Love's Sake " (1886); "Colonial Ballads Sonnets, 



and Other Verses'' (1887); "Aunt Dorothy " (1890); 



and a translation of the " Dies Ine" (18"> 



Proctor .lo-ejili. .K-tor. born in Marlboro, Mass., 

 May 7. 1816; died in Boston. Mass., Oct. 2, 1897. 

 H.- entered mercantile life in Boston, and lx?fore 

 long he was enrolled in a company of youthful 

 players. With very little special training, he made 

 his" first appearance on the stage as Damon in 

 * Damon and Pythia-." "ii Nov. :.>'.). l*:w. Next he 

 appeared as Rolla in " Pizarro." He plaved a star 

 engagement at the Tn-mont Theater, and" then a p- 

 peared with the >t.^-k company of the IVarl > 

 Theater, Albany, N. V.. till 1817, hen he and Mr. 

 Connor wore engaged at tho Walnut Street Theater, 

 Philadelphia, onening in " Thalaba." The next year 



u rued t. IJoston, and after one season made a 

 starring tour of the West. On May 6, 1839, he 

 opened the rebuilt Bower}- Theater, New York 

 appearing as Nathan Slaughter in -Nick ..f ih.- 



Is*" Ih played this part more than 2,500 1 



In 1H50 he went to Knirland. played in London 



one hundred night*, beginning with "Othello": 



and afterward played in other Kn-li-h citn-. and 



tinent. In 1S61. while he was play- 



i <;ia>trow. j,m , .MinjMiny included the present 

 Sir li :,. He returned to Boston in the 



autumn of lwil : played an engagement at the 

 Howard Athena-urn, under the management of Kd- 

 winl. rt ; and starred in a round of 81 



spearean chan -k of the Woods,** and 



dramas till 1*69. After managing a theater 

 in Sacram for nearly three seasons, he re- 



tired for two years: then reappeared in his familiar 

 parts; and continued his professional work till his 



final -.in 1*85. The fiftieth annix- 



of hix Jirst appearance ,,n th. | made the 



occasion of a c i -nial at the Bos- 



ton T; 



Piilhiinn. (,...!-. Moi-tim.-r. Qtor, b.,rn 



in Chautauoui L881 ; 



died in i 17, ||, i. ;,,,,, ,1 ,!. 



trade ,,f eabiiirtinnker in Albion, .\. \. [,, 

 when th. :ml 



Wa8 IM-MI !,, 



r mov- 



_'eblll|ilil:. 



>IO.K! in the way of t he 

 improvement, li 

 successful in tin-, an.l 



ter lie iv- 



jo an I 



entered u|t.'II th> 



of raising lar^'e i 



of brick and itOtK 



buildings. The. 



nilt. some blookfl 

 on one level and some 

 on another, and an ef- 

 fort was beinjr made to 

 brine; all to one level. Meanw hile In l::id I i in -t inly- 

 ing the problem of makini: loii^ railway jon- 

 conifortaole, and soon after In- removal to Cli 

 he converted two old railway coache- into sleeping 



ere used successfully. an<i 



there was adeniaml for more. He perfected his in- 

 vention, and in INfr} In-pi n building the cars that 

 have >inee borne his name. The tir>t. which was 



called the Pioneer," wai built at a cost of $18.000. 



In IN;; ni/.ed the Pullman Palace Car Com- 



i-any. of which he was president from that time till 

 his death. In IWT he devised the vestibule train. 

 In 18HO he founded the town of Pullman, near Chi- 

 cago, a model village, with his factorie> for its in- 

 dn>try, in which .">.( (K) of the inhabitan 

 ployeil. It is said that stati- thi- to be 



one* of the most healthful place- in the \\orld. Mr. 

 Pullman was interested n\- in other enteri 

 one of the most inijtortant leiiiL r tin- Metropolitan 

 Klevatod Hailroad in New York city. 



Raymond. Minor, educator, born in New Y-rk 

 city. Ang, -J!. 1^11 : .lied in Kvanston. 111.. N. 

 I 4 -!*?. He was graduated at \V,-lr\an A.ademy. 

 \Vilbraham. Mass., in 1831; l>ecame a member of 

 the faculty, and remained there ten years: held 



pestontes in Worcester, Bo-t-n. and Westfleld in 



1841_'4s : and was principal of We-levan Aeali-my 

 in 1848-'64. Through his efforts Fi-k Hall was 

 built in 1851 and Binn.-y Hull in ls:,4. and after 

 the fire that destroyed the academy buildii.. 

 IV.i; h,. -ecured a lai-u'e part of the fund- to relmild 

 them. In lsr,J he wa- elected Pr.,fe or of Sy-tein- 



atic Theology in (Jarn-tt Biblical [nstitute of the 

 Korthwestern l"niversit\ n. 111., m. 



held the chair for thiru i the 



degree of !).!>. fron rnivei>ity in Is'il. 



and that of LL. D. from NorthwesteiD University 



in lv<4. H, publi^ :natic Theolo..-;. 



< 'incinn.i 

 i;. id. .lolin ( . joiirnali-t. ^,rn in Kei. 



1^57: died i: B. t - ) "). 



He learned the printer'- trade in C), 

 and at the befrinninp of the civil war enli-t. : 

 private in an Illinoj- regiment. At the oxpiration 

 of liis term he re-enlisted in an Ohio regiment, of 

 which he became quartermaster; was captured and 

 taken to Andersonville, but escaped through tin- 

 aid of friendly negroes. After the war In- -ettled 

 in New York i-ity. and wa- fir-t employed a-^ a com- 

 r on the -New York Times." He was soon 

 promr>te<l to the place of nroof reader, was made- 

 night editor in 1871, and was managing editor 



