BIOGRAPHY 



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At Rome, he was treated with respect, being allowed to 

 dwell "for two whole years in his own hired house." 

 Whether he ever left the city or not cannot be positively 

 demonstrated, but it is believed by many critics, from 

 a variety of considerations, that he did obtain his liberty 

 about A. D. 64, and that he made journeys both to the 

 East and to the West, revisiting Asia Minor, and carry- 

 ing out his long-cherished wish of preaching the gospel 

 in Spain, then thought to be the western limit of the 

 world. Meanwhile occurred the great and mysterious 

 burning of Rome, generally attributed to Nero. The 

 latter threw the blame on the Christians, who were, in 

 consequence, subjected to a severe persecution. Among 

 Paul, who, according to tradition, suf- 



titns 

 fen-d A. 1). 67. 



I'.IMIP, John Howard, born in 



1792; 



. American 



actor and dramatist; wrote for the press at 13, and ap- 

 peared on the stage at 16; made his de"but at Drury 

 Lane in 1K12, when 20, and composed a number of 

 pieces, in one of which the air "Home, Sweet Home" 

 was first heard. He died as consul at Tunis in 1852. 



l';t \rii-. >ereno E., congressman, lawyer; born in 

 Hamilton. N. Y., June 26. 1843; graduate of University 

 of Rochester, 1864; admitted to bar, 1866; practiced 

 at Auburn (LL. D., Colgate, 1902, University of 

 Rochester. 1903); married. 1873. to Gertrude Knapp. 

 City clerk. Auburn, 1868-71; supervisor, 1871-72; 

 attorney, Cayuga County, 1873-79; president 

 of board of education, 1879-82; member of Congress, 

 1883-87; and, since 1889, 31st New York district. 

 Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means; was 

 artive in framing McKinley and Dingley Tariff laws. 

 Member of Hinh Joint Commission to negotiate treaty 

 with Canada, 1898. 



I', .ihody, Francis Cireemvood, Plummer professor 



l_ TT 1 ^_ 



born in 



of Ciin.-tian morals. Harvard, since 

 Boston. 1847; graduate of Harvard, 

 Divinity School, 1872 (D. D., Yale); pastor of First 



1886; 

 1869; 



Harvard 



Parish Church, Cambridge, 1874-80; Parkman profes- 

 sor of theology in Harvard Divinity School, 1880-86. 

 Author: "Mornings in the College Chapel," "Short 

 Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion," "Foun- 



1 iy at Hampton," " Afternoons in the College 

 Chapel," "Jesus Christ and the Social Question," 

 "Happiness." "Religion of an Educated Man." 



Pea body, Ceo rue, born in 1795; philanthropist; 

 having made a fortune as a drygoodsman in America, 

 went to England and established a banking business in 

 London in 1S43. Besides giving half a million to be 

 invested for the London poor, he assisted with funds 

 Dr. Kane's Arctic expedition, and founded and endowed 

 many institutions at Baltimore and other places in the 

 1 States. Died. 1869. 



. Josephine Diehitsch, arctic traveler, author; 

 born (I)iebitsch) and educated in Washington, D. C.; 

 married Lieutenant R. E. Peary. United States Navy. 



r. 1888; accompanied him on his 1891-92 and 

 1893-94 expeditions as far as winter quarters in Green- 



Greenland Archipelago, the last of the great Arctic land 

 groups; named the northern cape, the most northerly 

 land in the world (83 39' north latitude), Cape Morris 

 K. Jesup; attained highest north in Western Hemisphere 

 (84 17 r north latitude). Author: "Northward Over 

 the Great Ice. 



Peck, Harry Thurston, professor of Latin, Colum- 

 bia University, editor of the "Bookman" since 1895; 

 born in Stamford. Conn.. November 24, 1856; graduate 

 of Columbia. 1881 (A. M., Ph. D.. L. H. D., LL. D ); 

 studied in Berlin. Paris, and Rome. Author: "The 

 1 ersonal Lquatiqn," "The Semitic Theory of Creation. 



Latin Pronunciation," "The Adventure* of Mabel." 



What is Good English?" "Greystone and Porphyry" 

 (poems). "Twenty Years of the Republic." "The Life 

 ofPrescott." Kditnr: ' Harper's Classical Dictionary." 



The International Cyclopaedia" (15 vols.), "The New 

 International Encvcloptedia " (20 vols.), "American 

 Atlas of the World." "The Library of the World's 

 Literature," "Masterpieces of Literature." Consulting 

 editor of International Year Book, etc. Translator of 

 "Trimalchio's Dinner," etc. 



Peckham, Rufus William, associate justice of 

 United States Supreme Court since December. 1895; 

 born in Albany, N. Y., November 8. 1838; educated 

 at Albany Academy and in Philadelphia; studied law; 

 admitted to bar, December, 1859. District attorney of 

 Albany County, 1868; later corporation counsel, city 

 of Albany; justice of Supreme Court of New York, 

 1883-86; associate justice of Court of Appeals, New 

 York. 1886-95. 



Peel, Sir Robert, Bart., statesman; born in 1788, 

 eldest son of the first baronet; was named under-secre- 

 tary for the Colonies immediately on his entering par- 

 liament in 1811, and was Irish secretary from 1812 to 

 1818. In the following year he was chairman of the 



bank committee, and, in 1822, was appointed to the 

 home office, becoming leader in the Commons on the 

 death of Canning (1827). As such he introduced the 

 Catholic emancipation and police bills, and lost his 

 seat for Oxford University in consequence of the former. 

 After the reform bill he reconstructed his party, modern 

 Conservatism dating from his Tamworth manifesto 

 (1834). He now held office a few months, and was 

 finally prime minister from 1841 to 1846, when his 

 desertion of protection cost him the support of the 

 majority of his followers. He died in 1850. from the 

 consequences of a fall from his horse on Constitution 

 Hill. 



Pelz, Paul Johannes, architect; born in Seitendorf, 

 County of Waldenburg, Silesia, Germany. November 18. 

 1841; educated in College of St. Elizabeth and College 

 of the Holy Spirit, Breslau; did not graduate, but left 

 at 16 to join his father, who settled in the United States, 

 1851, for political reasons; studied architecture, 1859- 

 oT>. in New York, under Detlef Lienau. In practice as 



., _ _ M architect; was connected with Tnited States Light- 

 was the first white woman to wmter with an house Board as architect and civil engineer, and de- 

 expedition; gave birth to a daughter (Marie ",*" many lighthouses. Architect of Congressional 

 Ahnighiuii. the most northerly born white child in the library building. Georgetown college academic building. 

 mipanied her husband on his arctic trip in V; arne Ke "brary. and music hall building. Allegheny, 

 1897 tfa to meet her husband in 1900. Ship Pa.., United States Government army and navy hos- 

 pital. Hot Springs. Ark.; Chamber!. n hotel. Old Point 

 Comfort. Va.; elinic hospital, University of Virginia; 

 Aula Christi, Chautauqua, N. Y.; machinery hall, 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and many others. 



Ponn. William, founder of Pennsylvania; was born 

 in 1644, son of Sir \V. IVnn. who. with Vrnables. took 

 Jamaica. He became a Quaker while at Oxford, and 

 was several times imprisoned for hi. writings. In 1082, 

 he embarked for the colony of the New Netherlands 

 which had been granted him by Charles II.. and founded 

 Philadelphia, l>ut died in England, in 1718, having been 

 in great favor at court under .lame- II 



IVm " " '':*?P h rl i ? t - i"*tor. author; born in 



aught in ice and she wintered with her little daughter 

 at Cape Saline, 78 42' north latitude; went north again 

 in 1902. returning with her husband. Author 



lournal. Die Sn,.w |: 



Robert Edwin, arctic explorer, officer in 

 ites Navy; born in Cresson, Pa., May 6. 

 1856. Entered United States Navy as civil engineer. 

 October 26, 1881; assistant engineer on Nicaragua ship 

 anal under government orders, 1884-85; engineer in 

 'targe of Nicaragua canal surveys, 1887-SS; invented 



i'eary 





ESS 



for canal: now commander ami n\ ,1 



inter in United States Navy. Made reconnaissance. 

 1886. of the Greenland inland ice-cap, east ol 



i' north latitude; chief of arctic expedition of 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 1891. to September. 1892, to northeast angle of Green- 

 land (Independence Bay 81 37' north latitude): dis- 

 covered and named Melville Und and U-,l, r,n land, 

 lying beyond Greenland. Made another an tie voyage, 

 1808-95: made thorough study of little tribe of Antic 

 Highlanders; discovered. 1894. famous Iron Mountain 

 ird of by Ross. 1818). ! to be three 



". one of them weighing ninety tons (the largest 



known failed to reach the northern end of 



I on thin! .-d out another ship, and 



i 'lar expedition in 1905. Made sum- 

 mer vovfiK-. IVM',. 1S-.7. J.imrm,: th- CMP- Yo,k 



meteorites to United States: commander of Arctic ..... .. ,....* 



'* of Peary Arctic Club of Now raphv and Lithographers. 

 IS98-1902; rounded northern extremity of number of books. 



I'hilad.: '. pupilof I'ennv 



emy of Fine Arts and Pennsylvania School of Industrial 



Art ; repreeen 



bourne. 1 



pal collections in 



national collections of France 



' 



and in many State and munici- 

 America. Chairmen of 



International Jury 



1904. Author: *'A Canterbury P 

 r.lKnmag*." "Two Pilgrims' 



>ugh Franco and 



I >raughUmen." "Our Journey to the 

 Hebrides,;' "The Stream of Pleasure," "The Jw at 



I I < MI )**. 



rrn 111 



Alhambra 



"Play in Province." "To Gypnyland." "Mod- 

 HluMimtion of Books." "The 

 EM of Charles Keene." "Lith-c- 



