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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PERRY PLAISTED.) 



States mint; and wns president of the Association 

 of American Physicians in 1891, and of the first 

 Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington in 

 1893. He had an exceptionally large private prac- 

 tice, but found time to perform a large amount of 

 literary and editorial work, the most important of 

 which was the editing of the " Systems of Medicine 

 by American Authors " (5 vols.. Philadelphia, 1885- 

 '86). His publications include " Trephining in Cere- 

 bral Disease" (1871); "Local Treatment of Pul- 

 monary Cavities" (1874); "Sanitary Relations of 

 Hospitals" (IST.")); "Higher Medical Education: 

 The Trim Interest of the Public and the Profession " 

 (1877) ; " Report of the Medical Department of the 

 Centennial Exposition" (1877); " Catarrhal Irrita- 

 tion "(1881); "Epilepsy "(1883); " Phthisis in Penn- 

 sylvania" (1886); and "A Text-book of the Theory 

 and Practice of Medicine " (1893). 



Perry, William Stevens, clergyman, born in 

 Providence, It. I., Jan. 22, 1832; died in Dubuque, 

 Iowa, May 13, 1898. He was a nephew of Bishop 

 Stevens of Pennsylvania and was graduated at 

 Harvard in 1854. He took deacon's orders in the 

 Episcopal Church in 1857 and priest's orders in 

 1858, and after serving as assistant in St. Paul's 

 Church, Boston, from May to October, 1858, became 

 rector of St. Luke's Church, Nashua, N. H., where 

 he remained until April, 1861. He then assumed 

 the rectorship of St. Stephen's Church, Portland, 

 Me., which he held until November, 1863, and 

 after serving for a year as an editor of the " Church 

 Monthly" became rector of St. Michael's Church, 

 Litchfield, Conn., remaining there until April, 1869. 

 From 1869 to 1876 he was rector of Trinity Church, 

 Geneva, N. Y., and while there was for two years 

 Professor of History in Hobart College, and from 

 April to September, 1876, president of that institu- 

 tion. On Sept. 10, 1876, he was consecrated Bishop 

 of Iowa. He was widely known throughout the 

 Anglican communion, and was the recipient of 

 more honorary degrees than any bishop of the 

 American Episcopal Church. He was much given 

 to literary pursuits, and the number of his published 

 works, edited and original, is very large. The prin- 

 cipal ones include "Journals of the General Con- 

 ventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church," with 

 illustrative notes, with P. L. Hawks (Philadelphia, 

 1861); "Documentary History of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church," with F. L. Hawks (New York, 

 1863-'64); "Historical Collections of the American 

 Colonial Church" (1871-'78); "Life Lessons from 

 the Book of Proverbs " (New York, 1872); "Some 

 Summer Days abroad" (Davenport, 1880); "The 

 Church's Year" (Davenport, 1881); "The History 

 of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 " 

 (Boston, 1885); "General Ecclesiastical Constitution 

 of the American Church" (1890) ; "The American 

 Church and the American Constitution" (1895); 

 " The Episcopate in America " (New York, 1895). 

 Bishop Perry was secretary to the House of Deputies 

 at the General Convention of 1868, and also at those 

 of 1871 and 1874, and was historiographer of the 

 American Church from 1868 until his death. 



Peters, Augustus W., politician, born in St. 

 John, N. B., in 1844; died in New York city, Dec. 

 2'J, 1898. He studied law in St. John till 1867, when 

 he removed to New York and became a stock broker. 

 In 1878 he was made chairman of the Consolidated 

 Stock and Petroleum Exchange, 'which ollico he 

 held till he was elected president of the Borough of 

 Manhattan in 1897. He had served but one year 

 out of the four at the time of his death. Ho was a 

 prominent figure in Tammany Hall in I lie days of 

 John Kelly, and for many years he was chairman 

 of the General Committee of that organization. 



Pillsbury, George Alfred, manufacturer, born 

 in Concord, N. II., in 1816; died in .Minneapolis, 



Minn.. July 17, 1898. His early life was passed in 

 Concord and Warren, N. H. His son Charles first 

 went to Minneapolis and engaged in milling. The 

 success of the venture induced the father and twc 

 other sons to join Charles, and in 1872 the firm of 

 Charles A. Pillsbury & Co. was formed. This it 

 1889 was merged into the Pillsbury-Washbui 

 Flour Mills Company. The development of the 

 business of the Pillsburys was coextensive witl 

 that of the industry that has made Minneapolis 

 one of the largest markets for grain in the world. 

 One of the mills of the firm is the largest of it 

 kind in existence, having a capacity of 10,500 bar 

 rels a day. and the entire plant can turn out 17,5C 

 barrels a day. Mr. Pillsbury was one of the me 

 widely known men in the Northwest, and had es 

 tensive lumber and financial interests. All t\ 

 family were noted for their public spirit and gener 

 osity, and the father's benefactions in his lifetime 

 aggregated more than $500,000. (See GUTS AI> 

 BEQUESTS.) 



Pillsbury, Parker, abolitionist, born in Hamil- 

 ton, Mass., Sept. 22, 1809; died in Concord, N. 11., 

 July 7, 1898. When five years old he was taken 

 Henniker, N. H., where he grew up on his father's 

 farm with only such education as the common 

 schools afforded. After reaching his majority h>: 

 worked for three years in Lynn, Mass., then re- 

 turned to farm work, and in 1835 entered Gilman- 

 ton Theological Seminary, where he was graduated 

 three years later. He continued his studies for 

 year at Andover, and was then settled over the Con- 

 gregational Church in New London, N. H. With it 

 a year he was so stirred by the pleas of William 

 Lloyd Garrison in advocacy of the abolition of slav- 

 ery that he abandoned the ministry and joined the 

 band of antislavery lecturers who traveled over 

 New England and the West. Mr. Pillsbury was 

 one of the most zealous and effective of the aboli- 

 tion orators, and represented the New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, and American Antislavery Socie- 

 ties. He was sent to England in 1854 and delivered 

 addresses in the principal cities. He was at times 

 editor of the " Herald of Freedom," in Concord, and 

 of the " National Antislavery Standard," New York. 

 After the legal extinction of slavery he urged the 

 continuance of the American Antislavery Society 

 in behalf of the political elevation of the freedmen, 

 and when this course was deemed inexpedient he 

 engaged in the cause of woman suffrage. In 

 1868-'70 he was associated with Elizabeth Cady 

 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in editing "The 

 Revolution " in New York, and when that publica- 

 tion was discontinued he became a preacher to fr?o 

 religious societies in several Western cities till ad- 

 vanced years forced him into retirement. His reir.i- 

 niscences of the antislavery cause and its leaders 

 were published under the title of " Acts of t'ie 

 Antislavery Apostles" (Rochester, 1883). 



Plaisted, Harris Merrill, lawyer, born in Jef- 

 ferson, N. H., Nov. 2, 1828 ; died 'in Bangor, Mo., 

 Jan. 31, 1898. He was brought up on a farm, was 

 graduated at Watervillo College (now Colby Uni- 

 versity) in 1853, and in 1855 at the Albany Law 

 School. The following year he was admitted to the 

 bar and settled in Bangor to practice. <>M Oct. 30, 

 1861, he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 

 llth Maine Volunteers. He was promoted colonel 

 May 12, 1862; took part in McClellan's Peninsula 

 campaign; commanded a brigade before Cha 

 ton; served under Grant, in the movements agahst 

 Richmond and Petersburg, leading the "Ironlri- 

 gade"; and was brevetted brigadier general and 

 major general of volunteers in February and .Mar -h, 

 1865. "After the war he returned to his practice in 

 Bangor. In 1867-'68 he served in the Maine Legis- 

 lature, in 1868 was a delegate to the National lie- 



