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his death. He was also at various times in the 

 service of the United States Geological Survey 

 and the Geological Survey of Kentucky. In 1884- 

 '85 he presided over the Ohio State Sanitary As- 

 sociation, and later over the Ohio Academy of 

 Sciences. He was chosen president of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America in 1800, and two years 

 later of the 'American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. The degree of Ph. D. was 

 conferred on him by Hamilton in 1870, and in 

 1881 the Ohio State 'University gave him that of 

 LL. D. Dr. Orton was the author of many sci- 

 entific papers, reports, and addresses. In geology 

 he specialized on the economic products of Ohio, 

 devoting chief attention to petroleum and its 

 products, and under the auspices of the survey 

 he published Economic Geology of Ohio (2 vols., 

 Columbus. 1883-"88) and Petroleum and Inflam- 

 mable Gas (1887). (See his portrait on page 35.) 



Pacheco. Bomualdo, diplomatist, born in 

 Santa Barbara, Cal., Oct. 31, 1831; died in Oak- 

 land. Cal., Jan. 23, 1899. He was educated by 

 private tutors, and was engaged in nautical and 

 agricultural pursuits till he entered political life. 

 In 1851 he was elected to the State Senate, in 

 1853 to the State House of Representatives, in 

 1855 county judge for a term of four years, and 

 in 1801 to the Senate again. He was elected State 

 Treasurer in 1803, and a State Representative 

 again in 1808. In 1871 he was elected Lieutenant 

 Governor on the ticket headed by Newton Booth, 

 Independent, and in 1875, when Gov. Booth was 

 elected to the United States Senate, he succeeded 

 him as Governor. In 1870 Gov. Pacheco was a 

 Republican candidate for Congress, and received 

 the certificate of election, but after he had taken 

 his seat the House declared his Democratic com- 

 petitor legally entitled to it. In 1878 and 1880 

 he was elected beyond any doubt, although in 

 the last contest his majority was only 135 in 

 more than 34,000 votes. He was appointed min- 

 ister to Guatemala and Honduras in 1890. 



Page, Thomas Jefferson, naval officer, born 

 in Gloucester County, Virginia, in 1808; died in 

 Rome, Italy, Oct. 20, 1899. He was a grandson 

 of Thomas Nelson, Jr., a signer of the Declara- 

 tion of Independence. He was appointed mid- 

 shipman on the flagship Erie in the West Indies, 

 and served later on the Hassler in coast surveys. 

 He was next sent as commander of the Dolphin to 

 the China seas, which w r ere then infested with 

 pirates,, where he captured several pirate junks. 

 For a time he was attached to the Naval Observa- 

 tory in Washington. In 1851 he was sent in 

 command of an expedition in the Water Witch 

 to explore the basin of the river La Plata. This 

 mission occupied him three years, and his report 

 went through two editions in English and one in 

 Spanish. He was sent in 1858 with a fleet to 

 continue his explorations, which included many 

 rivers in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. A few 

 weeks before the civil war opened he resigned his 

 commission, and also declined an offer of ad- 

 miral's rank in the Italian navy, and entered the 

 Confederate service. After the war he spent some 

 time on a cattle farm in Entre Rios, Argentine 

 Republic, and later superintended in England the 

 construction of four ironclads for the Argentine 

 navy. During the last twenty years he resided 

 in Italy. 



Partridge. Frederick W., military officer, 

 born in Norwich, Vt., Aug. 19, 1824; died in 

 Sycamore, 111., Jan. 22, 1899. He was educated at 

 the academy in Norwich, was a student in Dart- 

 mouth College till his father's death, and in 1845 

 became an instructor in Harrisburg (Pa.) Mili- 

 tary College. In 1847 he was sent on a secret 



mission to Mexico by President Polk, especially 

 charged with reporting on the conduct of opera- 

 tions at the front. Being necessarily without cre- 

 dentials, he was captured as a spy, and was con- 

 lined at San Juan de Ulloa till released on orders 

 from Washington. After the war he settled in 

 Kendall County, Illinois, and resumed the study 

 of law. On admission to the bar he began prac- 

 ticing in Sandwich, 111. At the outbreak of the 

 civil war he was commissioned a captain in the 

 13th Illinois Infantry. He was promoted major 

 in June, 1801; lieutenant colonel in December, 

 1802; and colonel, for gallantry in the battle of 

 Lookout Mountain, June 18, 1804. After the bat- 

 tle of Ringgold Gap he was brevetted brigadier 

 general of volunteers. Gen. Partridge was 

 wounded at Chickasaw Bayou, Chattanooga, and 

 Ringgold Gap. After the war he resumed law 

 'practice in Sandwich and Chicago, was postmas- 

 ter at Sandwich several years, and served a term 

 as clerk of the Circuit Court of De Kalb County. 

 In 1809 he became consul general at Bangkok, 

 Siam, where he served eight years. While at this 

 post he did much to secure greater protection for 

 Christian missionaries and native converts, and 

 gathered materials for a projected publication on 

 his observations, which were subsequently lost 

 in the burning of his home. In 1882-'89 he was 

 a special examiner for pensions. 



Paterson, William, jurist, born in Perth Am- 

 boy, N. J., May 31, 1817; died there, Jan. 1, 1899. 

 He was a son of William Bell Paterson, a distin- 

 guished lawyer, and the last surviving grandson 

 of William Paterson, second United States Sen- 

 ator from New Jersey. He was graduated at 

 Princeton in 1835, was admitted to the bar in 

 1838, was defeated for the Legislature in 1840. 

 and was elected in 1842 and 1843. While in the 

 Legislature he was influential in securing the 

 abolition of imprisonment for debt and the prop- 

 erty qualification for the franchise. He also pro- 

 moted the movement for the State Constitutional 

 Convention of 1844, and was its secretary. In 

 1847 and 1857 he was deputy collector of internal 

 revenue, and in 1804 was president of the New 

 Jersey Electoral College. Between 1840 and 1878 

 he was elected mayor of Perth Amboy five times. 

 He was appointed a judge of the New Jersey 

 Court of Errors and Appeals in 1882, and served 

 seven years. Although a stanch Democrat for 

 fifty years, Judge Paterson actively opposed the 

 candidacy of Grover Cleveland. With his twin 

 brother he published Poems of Twin Graduates 

 of the College of New Jersey (1882). 



Payne, Charles Henry, educator, born in 

 Taunton, Mass., Oct. 24, 1830; died in Clifton 

 Springs, N. Y., May 5, 1899. He was graduated 

 at Wesleyan University in 1850, and studied the- 

 ology at the Concord (N. H.) Biblical Institute. 

 In 1857 he was admitted into the Providence Con- 

 ference, whence he was transferred to the East 

 New York Conference, and was assigned to St. 

 John's Church, Brooklyn. Subsequently he held 

 appointments in Philadelphia and Cincinnati w till 

 1875, when he was elected president of Ohio Wes- 

 leyan University. He resigned in 1888 to become 

 corresponding secretary of the Board of Educa- 

 tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He re- 

 ceived the degree of D. D. from Dickinson College 

 in 1870, and that of LL. D. from the Ohio State 

 University in 1870. Dr. Payne was a member of 

 the committee to revise the hymn book of his 

 Church in 1870, of the Oecumenical Methodist 

 Conference in London in 1881, and of the General 

 Conference of his Church in five sessions. His 

 publications include the pamphlets The Social 

 Glass and Christian Obligation (1808); Shall our 



