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THE STANDARD Did Ii >.\ \\{ V or TACTS 



Parker, Alton Brooks, jurist, lawyer; born in 

 Cortland, N. V.. May 14, 1S.VJ; educated at public 

 schools. Cortland Academy. Cortland Normal School; 

 graduate of Albany Law School; (IA.. D., Lnion '; 

 admitted to bar; practiced in Kingston; surrogate 

 Ulster County, 1877-85; delegate to Democrat Nat.onal 

 Convention, 1884; tendered office of first ai-tant post- 

 master-general, 1885; chairman of Democratic State 

 Committee. 1885; appointed justice of Supreme Court, 

 N. y., 1885, .Ic.ted, 1886; member Court of Appeals, 



"Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," and "Life of 

 Jefferson." Died in IS'.U. 



Partridge, William Ordway, sculptor, author; 

 born in Paris, France. April 11, 1861; student Columbia 

 College; art education in Rome, Florence, and Paris; 

 works include statue of Shakespere. Lincoln Park, Chi- 

 cago; hron/e statue, Alexander Hamilton, Brooklyn; 

 KauiTiuann Memorial, Washington; bust of Edward 

 K. Hale, Lnion League Club, Chicago; Whittier, Boston 

 Public Library: equestrian statue General Grant for 



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L'd division. lSS<->-_' ; memher of general term. lS.:MHi. Lnion League Club, Brooklyn; Schermerhorn Memorial. 

 of appellate division. 1S96-97; chief justice Court of Columbia Universit y; baptismal font St. Peter and Paul 

 Appeals, N. \ .. January 1. lS.s, to AuiruM 5, I'.'OI; Cathedral, Washington; group Christ and St. John, 

 I "emocratic nomination for the presi- Brooklyn Museum Line Arts, etc. Author: "Art for 

 :ade on first ballot, July 9, 1904; now practicing America, The Song Life of a Sculptor," "The Tech- 

 law, nique of Sculpture, The Angel of Clay" (novel) 



Parker. Theodore, born in 1S10. American minister. ' 

 son of a farmer at Lexington; ejected by the Unitarians 

 for his writings, became leader of a society of freethinkers; 

 was also an active abolitionist. A collected edition of his 

 works appeared in 1863. Died, 1860. 



Parklmr-t. Charles Henry, Presbyterian clergy- 

 man; born in Farmingham Mass., April 17, 1842; 

 graduated from Amherst, 1SOO (D. D.. LL. D.i; studied 



theology at Halle, 1S09-70; Leipzig, 1872-73; taught 



"Nathan Hale," the Ideal Patriot. 



Pasteur (ims-lur'), Louis, an eminent French chem- 

 ist, was born in Dole, in department of Jura in ISL'L'. 

 Pasteur was celebrated for his studies and discoveries 

 in fermentation, and also for his researches in hydropho- 

 bia, and his suggestion of inoculation as a cure. The 

 Pasteur Institute in Paris was the scene of his researches 

 from 1886. Died. 1895. 



Patmore, Coventry, English poet; born in Essex, 



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in Wilfiston Seminary. Kasthampton, Mass., 1870-71; 1823; best known as the author of "The Angel in the 



< 'ongregationaf Church, Lenox, Mass., 1874-80; House," a poem in praise of domestic bliss, succeeded 



since 1880 pastor Madison Square Presbyterian Church, by others, superior in some respects, of which "The 



.N>-\\ "i nrk. Became president, 1891, Society for Pre- Unknown Eros" is by many much admired. Died, 



vent ion of Crime, ana his assertion of partnership of 1896. 



police with criminals led to an investigation of the New Patti, Mme. Adelina, Craig-y-Nos Castle, Brecon, 



York police by the New York Legislature. Author the greatest operatic prima donna the world has ever 

 "Forms of the 'Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sanskrit," \ seen; of late years heard once a year, at the annual con- 



"The Blind Man's Creed," "The Pattern on the Mount," cert she has given at the Albert Hall, London; was born 



"Three Gates on a Side," "What Would the World Be at Madrid in 1843, but was brought to America when only 



Without Religion?" "The Swiss Guide," "Our Fight a few years old, and in this country she appeared as a 

 with Tammany," "The Sunny Side of* Christianity.' 



Parkman, Francis, American historical writer; 

 born in Boston in 1823; lived some time among the 

 Indians of the Rocky Mountains, and wrote "The Con- 

 spiracy of Pontiac," "The Old Regime in Canada." 

 "Count 1 rontenac and New France under Louis XIV.," 

 and "Montcalm and Wolfe," etc. Died in 1893. 



prodigy vocalist. She is said to have earned nearly two 

 millions during the course of her brilliant operatic career 

 all over the world. Mme. Patti has been married three 

 times first to the Marquis de Caux, then to Signor 

 Nicolini, the famous tenor, and is now Baroness Ceder- 

 strom. 



Pattison, Mark, born in 1813; scholar and divine; 



Patton, Francis Landey, educator, theologian; 

 born in Warwick Parish, Bermuda, January 22, 1843; 

 educated at Knox College, Toronto, University of Toron- 

 to; graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, 



Parnell, Charles Stewart, Irish politician; was became Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1839, and 

 born in 1846, in Avondale, Countv Wicklow, and educated rector in 1861. He was at first a follower of Newman, 

 at Cambridge. He entered public life as member for but afterwards contributed to "Essays and Reviews," 

 Meath in 1875, and two years later became conspicuous and became an active university reformer. His chief 

 by the "obstruction" with which he met the prisons works were "Life of Casaubon," "Milton in 'The Men 

 bill. He gradually ousted Mr. Butt from the leadership of Letters ' " series, and an edition of Pope's works. 

 of the home rule party, and, in 1880, became leader of the Died, 1884. 

 Irish party and entered upon the land agitation. At the 

 general election he was elected for three constituencies, 

 but chose Cork, and as the head of the Land League was 

 prosecuted in 1880, by the Gladstone government, the , 



result being a disagreement of the jury. In the following 1865 (LL. D., Wooster University, 1878, Harvard, 1889, 

 session he, with the majority of his followers, was re- Toronto, 1894, Yale, 1901, Johns Hopkins, 1902); or- 

 moved by the sergeant-at-arms for obstruction, and in 'darned to Presbyterian ministry June 1, 1865; pastor 

 October was imprisoned in Kilmainham under the 84th Street Presbyterian Church, New York, 1865-67; 

 coercion bill. He was released in April, 1882, but the Presbyterian Church, Nyack, 1867-70; South Church, 

 "no rent" manifesto had meanwhile been issued, and in Brooklyn, 1871. Professor in Cyrus H. McCormick Theo- 

 1883. the National League took the place of the sup- logical Seminary of the Northwest (now McCormick 

 pressed Land League. At the general election of 1885, Seminary), Chicago, 1872-81; also, 1874-81; pastor 

 he nominated every home rule candidate, and subse- Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago; mod- 

 quentlv entered into an alliance with the followers of erator general assembly, 1878; professor of Relations of 

 Mr. Gladstone. In the next parliament he proposed a Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion, Prince- 

 bill to suspend evictions and reduce rent, after the re- ton Theological Seminary, 1881-88, this chair being 

 jection of which the agitation continued. In 1888, a 1 founded and endowed for Dr. Patton by late Robert L. 

 special commission was appointed to examine the charges ! Stewart, and, 1886-88, also professor of ethics, Prince- 

 made against Mr. Parnell and others by the "Times," ton University; president Princeton University, 1888- 



1902, resigned; since 1888 professor of ethics, Princeton 

 University, and lecturer on theism, Princeton Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, which positions he still holds; president 

 of Princteon Theological Seminary since 1902. Author: 

 "The Inspiration of the Scriptures," "Summary of 

 Christian Doctrine." 



Paul, St., this eminent apostle, originally named 

 Saul, was a Jew of pure Hebrew descent, of the tribe of 

 Benjamin. He was born at Tarsus in Cilicia, and was 

 by birth a free Roman citizen. The mysterious circum- 

 stances that led to and attended his conversion, and his 

 apostolic travels, arc, doubtless, familiar to our readers, 

 and need not be given here. Much diversity of opinion, 

 however, prevails among the learned about the dates 

 of the principal events of his life. About the year 59, 

 having visited Jerusalem for the fifth time since his 

 conversion, the populace there assailed him, and would 

 have killed him, but an officer took him into custody 

 and sent him to the Roman Governor Felix, at Csnsarea, 

 where he was unjustly detained a prisoner for two years. 

 Having finally appealed to the Roman Emperor, ac- 



the result being his acquittal on the greatest, but con- 

 demnation on many others. In consequence of the 

 result of the O'Shea divorce case in 1890, he was deposed 

 by the majority of his party, but continued to lead the 

 minority and to carry on an active campaign until his 

 death in 1891. 



Parsons, Frank, lawyer, educator, author; born in 

 Mt. Holly, N. J., November 14, 1854; graduated in 

 mathematics and engineering course, Cornell, 1873; ad- 

 mitted to Boston bar; chief clerk for law firm for a time; 

 then opened offices of his own; text writer for Little, 

 Brown & Company, publishers; public lecturer on 

 economics and sociology; professor of history and politi- 

 cal science, Kansas Agricultural College, 1897-1900; 

 lecturer on law, Boston University since 1892. Author' 

 "The World's Best Books," "Our Country's Need," 

 "The Drift of Our Time," "Rational Money," "The 

 New Political Economy," "The Power of the Ideal," 

 "The City for the People," "Direct Legislation," "The 

 Bondage of Cities," "The Story of New Zealand." 



Parton, James, American writer; born in Canter- 



bury in 1822, but was brought to America when a child. ' cording to the privilege of a Roman citizen, he was sent 

 and wrote many works, the chief of which were "Life of to Rome. On the voyage thither, he suffered shipwreck 

 Horace Greeley," "General Butler in New Orleans," I at Melita (probably Malta), in the spring of A- D. 61. 



