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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (PACKARD PAXGBORN.) 



1st, and Some Ill-Used Words, all of which have 

 become authorities on the use of English. He 

 became a dramatic critic, and finally a teacher 

 of elocution, always laboring to bring about a 

 better pronunciation and emphasis in English 

 upon the stage. 

 When he was in Ger- 

 many, as a young 

 man, he played Shy- 

 lock, Richelieu, and 

 other leading roles, in 

 the German tongue ; 

 and in May, 1891, he 

 appeared as Shylock 

 in Boston, playing 

 that part afterward 

 throughout New Eng- 

 land. His books on 

 topics connected with 

 the stage are Actors 

 and Acting and The 

 Art of Acting. His 

 personal appearance 

 was distinguished, 

 and his manner was that of the gentleman of 

 the old school. He abounded in kindly and 

 benevolent impulses, and often went out of his 

 way to have infractions of the law punished 

 when children or other helpless persons were the 

 sufferers, and sometimes when the good of the 

 general public demanded something that the gen- 

 eral public neglected. 



Packard, Joseph, clergyman; born in Wiscas- 

 set, Me., Dec. 23, 1812; died in Alexandria, Va., 

 May 3, 1902. He was graduated at Bowdoin 

 College in 1831; was a professor at Bristol Col- 

 lege, Pennsylvania in 1834-'36; and was ordained 

 in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1837. He 

 was Professor of Sacred Literature in the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia 

 from 1837 till 1890, and during that time was 

 dean fifteen years. In 1890 he was made pro- 

 fessor emeritus. He was a member of the Amer- 

 ican Committee on the Revision of the Bible in 

 1872-'85, prepared the work on Malachi for 

 Lange's Commentary, and was a frequent con- 

 tributor to Church periodicals. 



Paine, Levi Leonard, educator; born in Hol- 

 brook, Mass., Oct. 10, 1832; died in Bangor, Me., 

 May 10, 1902. He was graduated at Yale Uni- 

 versity in 1856, and at its Theological Seminary 

 in 1861 ; and preached in Farmington, Conn., till 

 1870, when he became dean of Bangor Theological 

 Seminary, which post he held till his death. He 

 was president of the Maine Missionary Society in 

 1888-'94. He wrote a Critical History of the 

 Evolution of Trinitarianism and The Ethnic 

 Trinities. 



Palmer, Alice Freeman, educator, born in 

 Colesville, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1855; died in Paris, 

 France, Dec. 6, 1902. She was graduated at the 

 University of Michigan in 1876; was appointed 

 teacher of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics at 

 Geneva Lake, Wis., where she remained a year, 

 and principal of the high school at East Saginaw, 

 Mich., in 1877, where she remained till 1879, when 

 she became Professor of History in Wellesley 

 College. She held the latter post till 1881, when' 

 she became acting president. In 1882 she ac- 

 cepted the' presidency of Wellesley College and 

 remained at the head of that institution till 1887, 

 when she married George Herbert Palmer, Pro- 

 fessor of Philosophy in Harvard University. In 

 1892-'95 she was dean of the Woman's Depart- 

 ment of the University of Chicago. 



Palmer, Benjamin Morgan, clergvman, born 

 in Charleston, S. C., Jan. 25, 1818; died in New 



Orleans, La., May 28, 1902. He was graduated 

 at the University of Georgia in 1838, and at 

 Columbia Theological Seminary in 1841 ; held 

 Presbyterian pastorates in Savannah, Ga., in 

 1841-'43; in Columbia, S. C., in 1843-'56; and in 

 New Orleans from 1856 till his death. He was 

 Professor of Church History and Polity in Colum- 

 bia Theological Seminary in 1853-'56; director of 

 the same institution in 1842-'56; and a director 

 of the Southwestern Presbyterian University, 

 Clarksville, Tenn., from 1873 till his death, and of 

 Tulane University from its organization. He fre- 

 quently served as a commissioner to the General 

 Assembly of his denomination, and was one of 

 the founders, in 1847, of the Southern Presbyterian 

 Review, of which he was editor till his death. 

 He was author of Life and Letters of J. H. Thorn- 

 well (1875); Sermons (1876); The Family in its 

 Civil and Churchly Aspects (1876) ; Formation of 

 Character (1889) ; The Broken Home (1890) ; and 

 Theology of Prayer (1894). 



Palmer, Francis Asbury, banker, born in 

 New York city in 1812; died there, Nov. 1, 1902. 

 He was noted for his rugged tenacity of purpose 

 and strong will. He served a term as city cham- 

 berlain more than twenty-five years ago. At the 

 time of his death he was president of the Broad- 

 way Savings-Bank, and had recently retired from 

 the presidency of the Broadway National Bank. 

 Mr. Palmer in life gave much of his large wealth 

 to charitable and educational causes. For about 

 a quarter of a century he was in the habit of 

 giving a dinner on his birthday to several clergy- 

 men and others to whom he entrusted the greater 

 part of his philanthropic work. The institutions 

 in which he was most largely interested are the 

 Palmer Institute, in Muncie, Ind., to which he 

 gave $500,000; the Starkey Seminary, in Eddy- 

 town, N. J., t* which he gave $500,000; and 

 Palmer College, in La Grande, Iowa, to which he 

 gave $30,000. 



Palmer, Potter, capitalist, born in Rensselaer- 

 ville, N. Y., in 1826; died in Chicago, 111., May 

 4, 1902. He was in business in Dunham, in Oneida 

 County, and in Lockport, N. Y., till 1852, when he 

 established in Chicago a dry-goods store, which 

 became widely known under the name of Field, 

 Palmer & Leiter. In 1867 he retired, and engaged 

 in real-estate operations. He purchased three- 

 quarters of a mile of property, and built the 

 Palmer House, which was half completed when it. 

 with 35 other buildings that he owned, was de- 

 stroyed by the great fire of 1871. He rebuilt the 

 Palmer House at a cost of $2,500,000, and many 

 other buildings, and accumulated a vast fortune. 

 He gave $200,000 for the Woman's Building at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. 



Pangborn, Zebina Kellogg-, iournalist. born 

 in Peachman, Vt., July 31, 1829; died in Hilburn. 

 N. Y., Nov. 1, 1902. He was graduated at the 

 University of Vermont in 1850; taught school 

 for a short time; and later was principal of two 

 academies in Vermont. In 1854 he gave up 

 teaching for newspaper work, and was successive- 

 ly editor of the St. Albans (Vermont) Tribune; 

 the Worcester Daily Transcript, and the Boston 

 Daily Atlas and Bee. Later he studied law. but 

 abandoned practise to enter the National army 

 at the outbreak of the civil war. He was made 

 paymaster, with the rank of major, and served 

 till 1865, when he became editor of the Jersey 

 City Times. In 1867 he founded the Jersey City 

 Evening Journal, and he was its editor till 1895, 

 when he sold his interest. Major Pangborn had 

 a high reputation as a political speaker. He was 

 a delegate to the Republican convention that 

 nominated John C. Fremont for the presidency, 



