publican Convention, and in 1873-75 was Attorney- 

 General of the State. While holding the last office 

 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, to fill 

 a vacancy. In 1878 he joined the national Green- 

 back party, and in 1880 was elected Governor of 

 Maine, through a fusion of the Greenback and 

 Democratic parties, after a close and bitter fight. 

 For several years after his retirement he was editor 

 of " The New Age," in Augusta, Me. 



Poland, John Scroggs, military officer, born in 

 Princeton, Ind., Oct. 14, 1836; died in Asheville, 

 N. C., Aug. 8. 1898. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy and appointed a 

 2d lieutenant in the 2d Infantry in May, 1861 ; was 

 promoted 1st lieutenant the following month; cap- 

 tain. June 27, 1862; assigned to the 6th Infantry, 

 July 14, 1869 ; major, 18th Infantry, Dec. 15, 1880 ; 

 lieutenant colonel, 21st Infantry, March 1, 1886 ; 

 colonel, 17th Infantry, Aug. 1, 1891 ; and brigadier 

 general in May, 1898. He was brevetted major, 

 Di'c. 13, 1862, for gallant services in the battles of 

 Antietam, Shepardstown Ford, and Fredericksburg, 

 and lieutenant colonel, May 3,1863, for the battle of 

 Chancellorsville. Gen. Poland served with the 

 Army of the Potomac till after the battle of Gettys- 

 burg, and was then assigned to the defenses of 

 Washington. In 1865-'69 he was Assistant Professor 

 of Geography, History, Ethics, and Drawing at the 

 United States Military Academy, and during the 

 next ten years was principally employed on frontier 

 duty. He was chief of the department of law at 

 the United States Infantry and Cavalry School, in 

 Leavenworth, Kan., in 1881-'86. At the beginning 

 of the war with Spain he was commissioned a brig- 

 adier general, and at the time of his death was in 

 command of the 2d division, 1st Army Corps, at 

 Chickamauga Park, Ga. He contracted typhoid 

 fever in the camp, and went to Asheville a few days 

 before his death with the hope of recovery. Gen. 

 Poland was author of " Digest of the Military Laws 

 of the United States from 1861 to 1868 " (Boston, 

 1868) and "The Conventions of Geneva of 1864 

 and 1868 and St. Petersburg International Com- 

 mission " (Leavenworth, 1886). 



Pool, Maria Louise, author, born in East Ab- 

 iugtou (now Rockland), Mass., in August, 1841 ; 

 died there, May 19, 1898. She was educated in the 

 public schools of her native town and prepared her- 

 self for teaching, but after a year of that employ- 

 ment she was obliged to give it up on account of 

 her health. She spent several seasons in the South 

 and among the Carolina mountains, where she 

 found her inspiration for literary work. Her first 

 writings comprised the " Ransorne " letters in the 

 " New York Tribune/' Subsequently she made a 

 specialty of depiciing the life and character of New 

 England, where almost all her life was passed. Her 

 best-known works are '' Dolly" and "Against Hu- 

 man Nature," both relating to life in the Carolina 

 mountains, " A Vacation in a Buggy." Roweny in 

 Boston," "Mrs. Keats Bradford," "'The Two Sa- 

 lomes," " Katharine North," " Out of Step," " In 

 the First Person," " In a Dyke Shanty." " Mrs. 

 Gerald," and " Friendship and Folly " (1898). 



Potts, Stacy Gardner, organist, born in Tren- 

 ton, N. J., in 1858 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 

 11.1898. He was graduated at the Columbia law 

 school in 1879. After admission to the bar he 

 practiced with his father till the hitter's death, and 

 hen abandoned his profession for literature and 

 msic. From 1881 till his death he was continu- 

 isly employed as organist and choir master in 

 lurches in New York and New Jersey, his last en- 

 igemont being with the Church of the Epiphany, 

 Brooklyn. For several years before his death he 

 fas one of the editors and the musical critic of 

 'The Churchman," the American correspondent of 



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" The London Musical Times," and a musical writer 

 for " The Living Church " and other publications. 

 He was a skillful director and performer, and com- 

 posed several popular hymns. 



Purvis, Robert, abolitionist, born in Charleston. 

 S. C.. Aug. 4, 1810; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 

 15, 1898. He was a son of William Purvis, a suc- 

 cessful cotton merchant of English birth in Charles- 

 ton, by a free-born woman of Moorish descent. In 

 1817 the father, who had retired from business, 

 sent the mother and their three sons to Philadel- 

 phia, expecting to settle permanently in England. 

 On his own arrival, finding there was no school of 

 a high grade for colored children, he established 

 one on Spruce Street, and paid the teacher's salary 

 for a year. The elder Purvis, who was a practical 

 abolitionist even at that early day, died before com- 

 pleting arrangements to return to England, and 

 Robert was educated in various schools in Pennsyl- 

 vania and New England, finishing at Amherst Col- 

 lege. He made his permanent home in Philadel- 

 phia. He first became interested in antislavcry 

 work in 1830 by making the acquaintance of Ben- 

 jamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison, the lat- 

 ter having just been released from a Baltimore 

 prison. In 1833 he was one of sixty persons who 

 organized the American Antislavery Society in 

 Philadelphia, of which he was vice-president for 

 many years, and of which also he was the last sur- 

 vivor. He was also for a long time president of the 

 Pennsylvania Antislavery Society, and was an or- 

 ganizer of the famous " underground railroad." 

 His house was one of the best-known stations on 

 this " road," and his horses, carriages, and personal 

 attendance were always at the service of fugitive 

 slaves. During the period 1833-'61 his life was 

 frequently in peril, and on one occasion he and the 

 gentle Whittier were mobbed together in Pennsyl- 

 vania Hall. After the proclamation of emancipa- 

 tion he became first vice-president of the Woman's 

 Suffrage Society, and in recent years he was active 

 in the local movement for better municipal gov- 

 ernment. 



Putnam, Mrs. Mary Traill Spence (Lowell), 

 author, born in Boston, Dec. 3, 1810; died there in 

 June, 1898. She was the daughter of the Rev. 

 Charles Lowell and the elder sister of Hon. James 

 Russell Lowell, and married Samuel R. Putnam, a 

 Boston merchant, in 1832. She contributed occasion- 

 ally to periodicals, and translated from the Swedish 

 Fredrika Bremer's " The Handmaid'' (1844). She 

 was also the author of "Records of an Obscure Man " 

 (1861) ; " The Tragedy of Errors " (1862); " The Tra- 

 gedy of Success" (1862), the two last-named works 

 being the two parts of a dramatic poem ; " Memoir 

 of William Lowell Putnam " (1863) ; "Fifteen Days" 

 (1866); and "Memoir 

 of Charles Lowell " 

 (1835). 



Qnintard, Charles 

 Todd, clergyman, 

 born in Stamford, 

 Conn., Dec. 22, 1824: 

 died in Meridian, Ga.. 

 Feb. 15, 1898. He 

 was a medical gradu- 

 ate of the University 

 of the City of New 

 York in 1847. and for 

 a time practiced his 

 profession in Athens, 

 Ga. He was subse- 

 quently professor for 

 several years in a medical college at Memphis, Tenn. 

 He took deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church in 

 1855, and was admitted to the priesthood the next 

 year. During 1857 he was rector of Calvary Church, 



